By BookPage | Norah Piehl | 5/1/2026 1:00 AM

Narrator Saskia Maarleveld adeptly voices the residents of a late 1960s home for unwed mothers in Kate Schatz’s Where the Girls Were. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Jessica Peng | 4/30/2026 1:00 AM

How can we lay our ghosts to rest, especially in a world torn open by war? Sunyi Dean takes this question literally in The Girl With a Thousand Faces, the story of an alternate Hong Kong where ghosts walk among the living. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Amanda Diehl | 4/28/2026 1:00 AM

Recent headlines may bemoan the state of historical romance, but publishing veteran KJ Charles sees no shortage of potential in the genre: “Saying historical romance is dead is the same as saying flares are dead or skinny jeans are dead.” ... Read full Story

By BookPage | the editors of BookPage | 4/27/2026 1:00 AM

As summer vacation draws near, keep learning alive with these three insightful and engaging novels. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Thane Tierney | 4/27/2026 1:00 AM

Priya Parmar drops readers into the thick of pre-Hays Code Hollywood, where careers were made and broken, fantasies were fabricated and fractured, and skeletons lurked not only in closets, but on sets and in bedrooms. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Noah Fram | 4/27/2026 1:00 AM

Solid pacing, strong insights into human nature (often delivered via talking dog) and a steady dose of humor make Suzanne Palmer’s Ode to the Half-Broken a sci-fi standout. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Chika Gujarathi | 4/27/2026 1:00 AM

Jesse Q. Sutanto’s Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block is a great feel-good read that reminds us that there’s no age restriction on new beginnings. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Caroline Bicks | 4/21/2026 1:00 AM

Studying King’s archives helped author Caroline Bicks understand how the master of horror creates monsters that permanently reside in readers’ minds. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Eric A. Ponce | 4/21/2026 1:00 AM

With the beautifully rendered Until We Meet Again, Lily Kim Qian delivers a young adult memoir that feels like the first step in the lifelong process of healing. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Virginia Reeves | 4/21/2026 1:00 AM

This Vast Enterprise deftly moves Lewis and Clark out of the spotlight to reveal the “fascinating and unruly ensemble” of people who were part of the Corps of Discovery. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Alice Cary | 4/21/2026 1:00 AM

Jayne Anne Phillips’ memoir in essays, Small Town Girls, is a powerful ode to her Appalachian roots. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Linda M. Castellitto | 4/21/2026 1:00 AM

The first scholar to gain access to Stephen King’s archives, Caroline Bicks explores the master of horror’s seminal works in her superbly shudder-inducing Monsters in the Archives. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Tara Menon | 4/20/2026 1:00 AM

The author's piercing debut novel, Under Water, reflects her reverence for the natural world and the creatures we share it with. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Cat Acree | 4/20/2026 1:00 AM

T Kira Madden’s gale-force first novel, Whidbey, is a challenge to other novels in its category and an encouragement to raise the bar. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Alice Cary | 4/20/2026 1:00 AM

Readers of Tara Menon’s stunning debut novel, Under Water, will be as mesmerized by scenes of exploring Thailand’s coral reefs as they are by her depiction of overwhelming grief. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Freya Sachs | 4/20/2026 1:00 AM

Even amid their bitterest struggles, there’s a tenderness to the family at the heart of Tolani Akinola’s striking, smart debut, Leave Your Mess at Home. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Arlene McKanic | 4/20/2026 1:00 AM

Xochitl Gonzalez’s straightforward prose downplays its subtlety and brilliance, and she is Whartonesque when it comes to describing the folkways of a particular group of people at a particular time. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Sarah McCraw Crow | 4/20/2026 1:00 AM

Julia Langbein’s Dear Monica Lewinsky is inventive, funny and incisive—a delightful comedy that’s also frank in commenting on the trouble caused by institutional power imbalances between men and women. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | the editors of BookPage | 4/16/2026 12:47 PM

As nature reawakens with the passage of winter, our gardens aren’t the only thing in bloom. Celebrate Earth Day and the arrival of spring with love stories set in various lush landscapes, from the forest to the ocean—and even an alien planet. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Laura Hutson Hunter | 4/15/2026 1:00 AM

Filled with depictions of cats in art, culture and history across millennia, this book proves that cats have always been everywhere, all at once. ... Read full Story