Lin wakes up in a pile of freshly murdered bodies, with a madman screeching overhead and an army on the way and magic all around and gems—which are different from Jewels—and magic threatening everyone…
Continuing along the path that her first book, The Fire Sermon, laid out, Map of Bones is another measured elegy for a world in ruins. Atomic detonations blanketed the world in cold and ignorance,…
Lucas Knight doesn't have any shining armor. He's the spoiled child of a wealthy white developer in Puerto Rico, and the most good he's done is all in his head. He wishes things were…
1. Candy (Mian Mian) - This is one of my all-time favorite books. A weird memoir-esque take on growing up in the rebel youth culture of the 90s in China, Mian Mian catalogs drugs,…
Our word disaster comes from the Greek meaning "bad star." And if one bad star portends calamity, imagine a whole sky of them. Mayavati doesn't have to. She is born with the most malignant…
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel is the definition of compulsively readable. I snuck peeks at work, I held it in one hand while holding my toothbrush in the other, and if it had not…
Korean fiction is only just now coming into vogue, with Kyung-Sook Shin and Han Kang making waves in lit circles and bestseller lists. Here are some Korean novels to get you started. 1. Your…
If you've read the first two books in this series, you already know that there's no way you can't read the third. It's impossible to resist these books, and impossible not to devour them…
Book geeks and Geeklies who love books often want to branch out, so I'll be doing a few lists of works in translation, starting with Japanese novels. Japanese fiction is fairly well established in…
Sometimes children go to fairyland. Sometimes they fight monsters, and save kingdoms, and do a bit of growing on the way. And then sometimes, they come back. Eleanor West's "school" is a place where…