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Riley Harker

Riley Harker

Riley Harker is a lifelong avid reader and an aspiring writer. She is a fan of any story that brings her something new she can learn from, and she loves to share book recommendations and reviews with those in her life. She also has a Substack account and a Bookstagram where she posts book reviews of her own.

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Riley Harker

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The Worst of Both Worlds in “Exit Party”

Emily St. John Mandel, the author known for titles like Station Eleven, returns with another engrossing work of speculative fiction. Exit Party brings us the worst of both worlds as it explores two very different futuristic versions of a post-collapse United States. The story opens in the year 2031 as…
Riley Harker
September 15, 2026
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Small Boat: A Powerful Account of Shared Complacency

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.
Riley Harker
April 21, 2026
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The White Hot: A Love Letter to Female Rage

In her debut novel, The White Hot, playwright and memoirist Quiara Alegria Hudes tackles the complexity of an emotion that few dare to explore: the explosive power of female rage. The story is told in the form of a letter written by a mother to her daughter on her 18th…
Riley Harker
November 11, 2025
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Boleyn Traitor: Reimagining Tudor Betrayal

Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl, among many other historical fiction successes, returns to the Tudor court with her newest novel, Boleyn Traitor. Twenty-five years after the release of The Other Boleyn Girl, Gregory dives back into the minds of those sneaky Boleyn women who are so often…
Riley Harker
October 13, 2025