Psychological Fiction

How Do Memories Shape Us? Author Explores Nature of Memory in Fiction

In Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Buried Giant, an entire society has literally lost its ability to remember. One such couple has muted memories of having had a son, of having once loved one another. But those memories seem to become more and more opaque every day. In a moment of…

Jon BassoffFebruary 19, 2025

Fiction Listicles

5 Moving Literary Stories of Grief, Redemption and Community

There’s nothing better than being lost in a book and letting a story overtake you. Some fiction is life-changing and permanently alters your worldview. Other books bring you to tears and consume your thoughts for the subsequent days or weeks. If you’re a reader who seeks out the kinds of…

Megan BeauregardDecember 10, 2024

Fiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Uncovering Turkey’s Seismic Secrets with Geologist D.J. Green

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews…

Blaine DesantisMay 1, 2024

Fiction

Unravel the Gripping Mystery of “The Paris Widow” by Kimberly Belle

Kimberley Belle has written a masterful, highly original fast-paced thriller The Paris Widow that keeps the reader guessing until the final chapter. Art thieves, dodgy antique dealers, smugglers, assassins, the FBI Art Crime Team and Interpol all co-mingle, becoming enmeshed in what was to be the dream vacation of a…

Linda HitchcockJuly 2, 2024

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Poignant and Thought-Provoking, “The College Shrink” Seeks to Unravel the Threads That Connect Our Lives

There is a defining moment near the end of William Haylon’s brilliant The College Shrink, an emotional moment when two key characters are in the middle of a gripping conversation. They are standing two feet apart, and Haylon writes, “He didn’t take the two steps required to hug her.…

Jim AlkonJuly 14, 2022

Fiction Recommended

In Atmospheric New Thriller, Family Learns Their Past Is Not So Easily Put to Rest

“I almost forgot. There’s a caretaker who lives on the property. It’s part of the deal, he comes with the house.” The realtor, talking to the Keane family of Boston who had just acquired the strange old house on the hill in Littleton, NH, built by the legendary Mr. Goodpasture,…

Jim AlkonMay 7, 2024

Thrillers

A Theater Critic in the Performance of Her Life – and Maybe Her Death

I know what happens when I involve myself. When I allow myself to feel without limit. Bad things. Dangerous things. In Alexis Soloski’s Here in the Dark (Flatiron), Vivian Parry is a former actress and now junior theater critic for a New York magazine. She has secrets in her past,…

Neil NyrenNovember 24, 2023

Fiction

Taiwanese Author’s English Debut is a Musical Journey of Self-Discovery

“Anyone with enough experience can make up stories, but only those who truly understand the world have something meaningful to say.” That quote, from a Nobel literature laureate, is used by a nameless piano tuner to describe what defines for him a widower grieving for his young wife in The…

BookTribJanuary 3, 2023

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ITW Spotlight: 50 Shades of Apocalyptic Thriller With David Yoon

"Very few post-apocalyptic novels have the literary qualities of this one. ... Like all the best authors in the genre, David Yoon is willing to ask what ‘the End of the World’ really means — and provide the reader with a thoughtful, heartfelt answer." —San Francisco Chronicle —∞— Imagine waking…

Guy BergstromJune 7, 2022

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Old Drive-In Theater Reels In “Misery”-Type Anti-Heroine and Frightful Supporting Cast

John Searles has written an intensely compelling book of suspense in his current novel Her Last Affair (Mariner Books). It begins in a light-hearted vein with laugh-out-loud humorous lines but as swiftly as the reader thinks “this looks fun,” a twisting slide down the funhouse chute pops open with a…

Linda HitchcockMarch 22, 2022

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Obsessive Narrator Joe Goldberg Returns in Caroline Kepnes’s Page-Turner “You Love Me”

"Completely addictive, razor-sharp writing." — Catherine Steadman, bestselling author of Something in the Water —∞— "Thank the reading gods that Joe Goldberg is back and just as seductive, dangerous, and witty as ever.” — Jessica Knoll, bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive —∞— When I read You by Caroline Kepnes,…

Y. M. NelsonApril 7, 2021

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Jessica Strawser’s Latest Meditates on Compassion and Dignity at Life’s Inevitable End

Engaging and meticulously plotted, Jessica Strawser’s The Next Thing You Know (St. Martin’s Press) is a character study, a call for compassion and empathy, and a hopeful read. Nova Hudson is an end-of-life doula with Parting Your Way, a two-person end-of-life doula service in Cincinnati, OH, with Kelly Monroe, its…

Tif MarceloMarch 24, 2022

Fiction

Success at Any Cost: Charismatic Man Climbs “A Ladder to the Sky” by John Boyne

If you loved The Heart’s Invisible Furies and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne like I did, although very different, you may want to check out A Ladder to the Sky (Hogarth). This incredible story keeps you on your toes … guessing who the narrator is, who…

Jennifer BlankfeinDecember 6, 2021

Fiction

“Talk to Me” Shares All Animal Communication Secrets Through Sign Language

If the measure of a good story is how often you think about it after you are done, then Talk to Me (Ecco), a new novel by T.C. Boyle, hits the mark. In fact, as I finished, I closed my eyes and let what I had just read wash over…

Laura McCaffertySeptember 14, 2021

Fiction

Tune In, Drop Out, Read Tao Lin

"No one writes like Tao Lin." — Tommy Orange, author of There There —∞— "Warm, funny, hearteningly nonconformist." — Melissa Broder, author of Milk Fed —∞— As I write this, I am on a couple prescribed pharmaceuticals and a cannabis-infused espresso bean. In the bag next to me, there is…

Casey BarrettAugust 5, 2021

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Lisa Harding’s Latest Is Full of “Bright, Burning Things” That Haunt Your Mind and Memory

When we first meet Sonya, the young mother at the center of Bright Burning Things (HarperVia) by Lisa Harding, she is frolicking at the beach with her son, Tommy, and dog, Herbie. While it feels like a normal outing on a warm and sunny day, it is not long before…

Laura McCaffertyDecember 7, 2021

Psychological Fiction

How Do Memories Shape Us? Author Explores Nature of Memory in Fiction

5 Moving Literary Stories of Grief, Redemption and Community

Books & Looks Podcast: Uncovering Turkey’s Seismic Secrets with Geologist D.J. Green

Poignant and Thought-Provoking, “The College Shrink” Seeks to Unravel the Threads That Connect Our Lives

In Atmospheric New Thriller, Family Learns Their Past Is Not So Easily Put to Rest

ITW Spotlight: 50 Shades of Apocalyptic Thriller With David Yoon

Old Drive-In Theater Reels In “Misery”-Type Anti-Heroine and Frightful Supporting Cast

Obsessive Narrator Joe Goldberg Returns in Caroline Kepnes’s Page-Turner “You Love Me”

Jessica Strawser’s Latest Meditates on Compassion and Dignity at Life’s Inevitable End

Success at Any Cost: Charismatic Man Climbs “A Ladder to the Sky” by John Boyne

“Talk to Me” Shares All Animal Communication Secrets Through Sign Language

Tune In, Drop Out, Read Tao Lin

Lisa Harding’s Latest Is Full of “Bright, Burning Things” That Haunt Your Mind and Memory

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