Fiction

Check Out These 9 “Library Books” for National Library Week

Walking into a library is like walking into an opium den. The exhilarating scent of paper and binding — whether musty with age or fruit-sweet and fresh off the press — is a perfume like no other. Endorphins flood the brain. Ahhhhh ... books! Here we can wander among the…

BookTribApril 5, 2022

Fiction Listicles Young Adult

Fighting for More Than Survival: 6 Stories of Love and Family in Times of Climate Catastrophes

In the 52 years since its founding, Earth Day has stood as an ever-more urgent call to act on climate change. Soaring temperatures, rising sea levels and a choked atmosphere are all results of modern society’s interference with nature, and just as these changes affect the whole of humanity, it’s…

Cameron KimballApril 22, 2022

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Voyage Into 5 Fascinating Worlds With These SFF Audiobooks

Put down your doomscrolling device and voyage with me out of earth’s orbit to different realms in five new fantasy and science fiction novels. A mix of stand-alone and series titles, they offer powerhouse female characters and the ultimate escape. There’s nothing like a trip out of time or into…

Aurelia C. ScottMay 4, 2022

Fiction Listicles

6 Books by Mexican-American Authors Perfect for Celebrating Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo is upon us once again. This holiday commemorating the Mexican army’s victory over France during the Franco-Mexican War in 1862 is certainly celebrated in Mexico but is also quite an occasion here in the United States. We tend to use this day as an excuse to throw a…

Wyatt SemenukMay 5, 2022

Fiction Listicles

These 6 Novels from Lawyers-Turned-Novelists Are No Joke!

I didn’t actually leave my 13-year litigation career to write novels; I left to catch my breath. I had a New York City legal career that largely resembled the rumors. Long hours, expensed everything, temper tantrums (only some of them my own). While I was catching my breath during a…

Amy ImpellizeriJune 30, 2022

Fiction Listicles

Six Culturally Conscious, Conversation-Starting Science Fiction Novels

Science Fiction immerses the reader in an alternate universe, hooking us in with a stirring narrative and intricate world-building. Along the way, it can also challenge us to take a good look at our own reality, and question it with an imaginative, open mind. Imagination is an integral element to…

Wyatt SemenukOctober 25, 2022

Fiction Listicles Thrillers

Killers, Secrets and Crimes from King, Baldacci and Turow

Jon LandNovember 3, 2022

Fiction

From the Mines to Magic: Stacey McEwan’s Gripping Tale of Class, Power and Resistance

When I started The Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan, I honestly didn’t know what to expect. But by the time I finished the first few chapters, I was completely invested. This book is a rich blend of fantasy, rebellion, class struggle and coming-of-age wonder. It weaves all these elements into…

Sunday Juliet AdakuJuly 3, 2025

Children's Books Fiction Recommended

Strike Gold on This Middle-Grade Mystery Full of Ciphers & Secret Codes

For 12-year-old Benjamin Coolahan, it feels like just yesterday he was enjoying life in 1873’s Boston, sailing on the Charles River with friends while his father worked in the Coolahan Gold Mine. But now Ben’s father is dead, and his will dictates that Ben move to Gold Flat, California, to…

BookTribMarch 28, 2025

Fiction

Debut “When Sleeping Women Wake” Is a Love Letter to the Forgotten Women of War

It’s no secret that MANY millennials view historical fiction as their favorite genre, and I can confirm this theory. The older I get, the more I want to expand my horizons from World War II-occupied Europe stories (though those are still fabulous, don’t get me wrong) to new periods, different…

Lydia LefevreJuly 1, 2025

Fiction

Money, Mistrust, and the Cost of Survival in El Dorado Drive

Megan Abbott strikes gold again with El Dorado Drive, a wicked new mystery novel set during the early days of the Great Recession of 2008, where the Bishop sisters — Pam, Debra and Harper — are each contending with their financial burdens. The fascinating plot deepens as a lifeline is…

Philip ZozzaroJune 26, 2025

Fiction

Anthony Horowitz Delivers a Devilishly Clever Meta-Mystery in “Marble Hall Murders”

Anthony Horowitz serves up a stylish contemporary golden-age murder mystery with whipped cream and a cherry on top with Marble Hall Murders. It’s a literary novel within a literary novel written with tremendous intelligence, humor, hidden clues, playful word games and anagrams that will keep readers actively engaged with literary…

Linda HitchcockJune 20, 2025

Fiction Recommended

Story of Sarcasm, Sisters, and Secret Powers Redefines the Hero Origin Story

Rebels of Dalmora by River Mackenzie is the story of a hero before the battle, where the biggest obstacle to overcome is term papers. Three years before facing unfortunate odds in the struggle between life and death, an epic adventure unfolds where the ordinary hurls our hero toward their destiny…

Elizabeth KonkelJune 27, 2025

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Disappeared But Not Forgotten: 6 Novels Touched by Argentina’s Dirty War

I first learned of Argentina's Dirty War in college. My minor advisor was teaching a Latin American History course and was enthusiastic about having an English major/Gender Studies minor infiltrate the ranks of students who haunted the History department. There’s something to said for perspective and for context, I suppose,…

Chelsea CicconeFebruary 17, 2022

Fiction Listicles

Shining Through the Struggle

This month, WFWA is excited to celebrate the diamonds in the rough. We are spotlighting characters who encounter challenges and emerge stronger because of them. Sometimes the challenge is external — war, political upheaval, family dynamics. Sometimes it is internal — vengeance, fears, regrets. Sometimes it is a combination of…

Women's Fiction Writers AssociationJune 25, 2025

Fiction Recommended

Ancient Courage Rides Again in a Young Woman’s Hands

In A Clan Chief’s Daughter, Sarah V. Barnes returns to the windswept steppe for a powerful coming-of-age tale. As a bold young rider faces tradition, betrayal, and the stirrings of revolution, this richly imagined prehistoric novel delivers emotional depth, breathtaking scenery, and a heroine who dares to shape her destiny.

BookTribJune 25, 2025

Check Out These 9 “Library Books” for National Library Week

Fighting for More Than Survival: 6 Stories of Love and Family in Times of Climate Catastrophes

Voyage Into 5 Fascinating Worlds With These SFF Audiobooks

6 Books by Mexican-American Authors Perfect for Celebrating Cinco de Mayo

These 6 Novels from Lawyers-Turned-Novelists Are No Joke!

Killers, Secrets and Crimes from King, Baldacci and Turow

Strike Gold on This Middle-Grade Mystery Full of Ciphers & Secret Codes

Story of Sarcasm, Sisters, and Secret Powers Redefines the Hero Origin Story

Disappeared But Not Forgotten: 6 Novels Touched by Argentina’s Dirty War

Shining Through the Struggle

Ancient Courage Rides Again in a Young Woman’s Hands

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