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New Taipei Night Market Novel Dives Into the Plight of Undocumented Workers

This reviewer’s sole complaint about personal favorite award-winning author Ed Lin is the long wait between books in his Taipei Night Market series, which began in 2014 with Ghost Month. The Dead Can’t Make a Living is the fifth featuring the sympathetic stand-out protagonist and narrator Jing-nan. Incidentally, Jing-nan is…

Linda HitchcockMay 12, 2026

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Hy Conrad Turns a Quiet Austin Routine into a High-Stakes Mystery

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.

BookTribApril 15, 2026

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

Sometimes Digging for the Truth Can Be a Slippery Slope

What does it mean to make a choice when every option is constrained by circumstance — or controlled by someone else? Is gathering truth fundamentally different from manipulating it? In The Silver Fish, Connor Martin drops readers into a high-stakes world where these questions aren’t theoretical — they’re immediate, and…

BookTribApril 13, 2026

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Four Sisters, One Epic Quest

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.

BookTribMay 5, 2026

Fiction Hidden Gems Thrillers

When Memory Becomes the Most Dangerous Mystery

What happens when the most frightening mystery is not who hurt you, but what your own mind has been protecting you from? In Carly Remembers, R.S. Nichols opens with a scene built for a thriller: a night-shift employee at a New Brunswick 7-Eleven discovers a badly injured young woman lying…

BookTribMay 4, 2026

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

When the Clock Hits Zero, Everything Changes

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.

BookTribApril 3, 2026

Fiction Miscellany

The Permanence of Memory in Novels

In his novel In a Strange Room, the South African Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut, wrote, “a journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it’s made… the very air closes behind you like water and soon your presence, which felt so weighty and permanent, has completely…

Aga MaksimowskaMay 11, 2026

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The Untrodden Path to Frances White’s “The Bone Door”

It’s a common mantra amongst writers that ‘ideas are easy; writing them is hard,' and while I do stand by this, I am not a writer blessed with endless ideas. I’m very self-critical, picky and easily distracted. For an idea to survive from my head to the page, it has…

Frances WhiteMay 12, 2026

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The Final Days of Old Brooklyn in Xochitl Gonzalez’s “Last Night in Brooklyn”

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.

Y. M. NelsonMay 11, 2026

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Dance Upon Demons in Vaishnavi Patel’s New Contemporary Fantasy

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.

Kiersten BjorkMay 12, 2026

Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture Romance

Somewhere Between the Pitt and Deciding Whether or Not to Be Child Free

If there is one thing The Pitt on HBO can be universally lauded for, it is its’ strikingly realistic portrayal of physicians in the Emergency Department at all levels, so much so that is often difficult for those who have lived that experience to watch it at times. For this…

Ava RaniMay 12, 2026

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Football, Friendship and the Surprising Ways We Find Each Other

I didn’t set out to write Changing Cadence: Friendship, Football, and the Art of Transition. It came out of a restlessness I couldn’t quite name. Football had always been the one place where I didn’t second-guess myself. On the field, everything was immediate. Instinct took over. There was no time to wonder…

Andra DouglasMay 8, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

A Perfect Summer House — With a Terrifying Catch

The vacation house is perfect. That, The Vanishers quickly teaches us, is the first warning sign. R.G. Belsky’s gothic thriller begins with Megan Foley in a state of near-collapse, wandering from vacation town to vacation town in search of a house no one else seems to remember. When she finally…

BookTribMay 8, 2026

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Faith Turns Fatal in This Riveting FBI Investigation

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.

Natalia KavaleMay 7, 2026

Fiction Miscellany Popular

A Speculative Tale That Asks Us to Sit With Uneasy Truths

Aries season asked us to burn. To move fast, act first and trust the fire. Taurus season asks something different — and perhaps harder. It asks us to slow down, sink into the earth beneath our feet and sit with what is real. Richard Powers' Playground — recently released in…

Lillian ParrottaMay 6, 2026

Fiction Listicles

4 Short Story Collections Showcasing Fresh Canadian Talent

The literary landscape in Canada today is arguably richer and more diverse than it’s ever been. To see a sign of this bookish splendor, look no further than the many wonderful short story collections by Canadian writers that are being published by small presses across the country. Canada is fortunate…

Michael SchmidtMay 6, 2026

Hy Conrad Turns a Quiet Austin Routine into a High-Stakes Mystery

Sometimes Digging for the Truth Can Be a Slippery Slope

Four Sisters, One Epic Quest

When Memory Becomes the Most Dangerous Mystery

When the Clock Hits Zero, Everything Changes

The Permanence of Memory in Novels

The Untrodden Path to Frances White’s “The Bone Door”

Dance Upon Demons in Vaishnavi Patel’s New Contemporary Fantasy

Somewhere Between the Pitt and Deciding Whether or Not to Be Child Free

Football, Friendship and the Surprising Ways We Find Each Other

Faith Turns Fatal in This Riveting FBI Investigation

4 Short Story Collections Showcasing Fresh Canadian Talent

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