Fiction & Literature: Reader's Advisory

2019 National Book Award for Fiction.
In an American suburb in the early 1980s at a highly competitive performing arts high school, two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, until a shocking spiral of events.

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her--but was gifted with a mysterious power.

Wisconsin Author
Historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of Wisconsinite--Mildred Fish Harnack--and her circle of women friends who waged a clandestine battle against Hitler in Nazi Berlin.

14 writers who've lived here offer a sinister tour of Brew City's radically diverse neighborhoods.

Wisconsin Author
As the Vietnam War grinds on and the Nixon presidency collapses, Del "Minnow" Finwick's small world in Wisconsin has blown apart. His father, a deputy sheriff, has been murdered by the unknown "Highway 41 Killer."

Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, this novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet follows an Afro-Latina heroine.

Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer.

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl.

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. But as they settle into a life together, Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit.