While driving a carful of kids away from Funville at the beach in Delaware at night last June, I was pulled over for failing to turn on the car’s lights.…
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Red, White, and Royal Blue
April 11, 2025Casey McQuiston queers the romance genre and U.S. politics in one swoop with this snarky-toned little novel. I don’t actually like romance at all, but I can tolerate this one…
In the Shelter
November 16, 2024Pádraig Ó Tuama’s meditative book is part memoir, part theological reflection on what it means to be gay and Christian. He’s a poet, and the book’s lyrical prose and peripatetic…
Mad Honey
October 19, 2024The story behind this book, revealed in authors’ notes, is fascinating: Jennifer Boylan Finney dreamed she was writing a novel with Jodi Picoult and tweeted about her dream the next…
Milk Fed
September 1, 2024Melissa Broder’s hilarious novel came across my feed when I was looking for contemporary queer literature to update my intro course. It perfectly combines anxiety about (over)eating and anxiety about…
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
July 24, 2024I listened to this book for my neighborhood book club–I confess I would never have picked this title out on my own–but I found it gripping. The audio book on…
The Widows of Malabar Hill
June 25, 2024Sujata Massey’s series of detective novels set in 1920s India starts off with an intriguing glimpse into the lives of Muslim pardanashin, women who live in seclusion. The three widows…
The Reading List
June 7, 2024To be honest, what attracted me to this novel by Sara Nisha Adams was, first, that it’s set in a West London neighborhood and, second, that it’s got a couple…
It Girl
July 9, 2023My first encounter with Ruth Ware’s work was when I read The Turn of the Key quite by accident. I think I found it at the library and realized when…
The Couple Next Door
March 16, 2023Fun book club pick to read during a very busy semester. Poorly written and weakly plotted, but I loved the ending!