books reviews by author

Anthology (multiple authors)

• All Out: the No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages
• Out Now: Queer We Go Again
• The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales

Elizabeth Acevedo

• Clap When You Land
• The Poet X

Tomi Adeyemi

• Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha #1)
• Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orisha #2)

G.A. Aiken

• The Blacksmith Queen

Melissa Albert

• The Hazel Wood

Becky Albertalli

• Leah On the Offbeat
• Love, Creekwood
• What If It’s Us
• Yes No Maybe So

Louisa May Alcott

• Little Women

Samantha Allen

• Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

Laurie Halse Anderson

• Speak

K. Ancrum

• The Weight of the Stars
• The Wicker King

Elana K. Arnold

• Damsel

Dean Atta

• The Black Flamingo

Leigh Bardugo

• The Grisha Trilogy (series review)
• King of Scars
• Ninth House

Alexandria Bellefleur

• Written in the Stars

Jenn Bennett

• The Lady Rogue

Julie Berry

• Lovely War

Holly Black

• The Cruel Prince
• The Darkest Part of the Forest

Ashley Herring Blake

• Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World

Kendare Blake

• Three Dark Crowns

Molly Booth

• Nothing Happened

Tanya Boteju

• Bruised

Akemi Dawn Bowman

• Summer Bird Blue

Alexandra Bracken

• The Darkest Minds
• The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding

Libba Bray

• The Diviners (Diviners #1)
• Lair of Dreams (Diviners #2)
• Before the Devil Breaks You (Diviners #3)

Sarah Rees Brennan

• In Other Lands

Kacen Callender

• Felix Ever After

Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy

• Once and Future

Kristin Cashore

• Graceling, Fire, and Bitterblue
• Winterkeep (Graceling #4)
• Jane, Unlimited

Becky Chambers

• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Austin Chant

• Peter Darling

Stephen Chbosky

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Roshani Chokshi

• The Gilded Wolves

P. Djèlí Clarke

• The Black God’s Drums

Suzanne Collins

• The Hunger Games (Hunger Games #1)
• Catching Fire (Hunger Games #2)
• Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3)

Emily M. Danforth

• The Miseducation of Cameron Post
• Plain Bad Heroines

Mason Deaver

• I Wish You All the Best

Jen DeLuca

• Well Met

Tracy Deonn

• Legendborn

Sonali Dev

• Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes #1)
• Recipe for Persuasion (The Rajes #2)

Anthony Doerr

• All the Light We Cannot See

Alexa Donne

• Brightly Burning

Alechia Dow

• The Sound of Stars

Gaby Dunn & Allison Raskin

• I Hate Everyone But You

Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

• This Is How You Lose the Time War

Andrew Eliopulos

• The Fascinators

Akwaeke Emezi

• Pet

Val Emmich

• Dear Evan Hansen

M.K. England

• The Disasters

Ronan Farrow

• Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Moïra Fowley-Doyle

• All the Bad Apples

Sarah Gailey

• When We Were Magic

McKelle George

• Speak Easy, Speak Love

Hank Green

• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (Carls #1)
• A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (Carls #2)

Shannon Hale

• The Forgotten Sisters (Princess Academy #3)
• The Goose Girl
• Kind of a Big Deal

Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows

• My Lady Jane
• My Plain Jane

Alix E. Harrow

• The Once and Future Witches
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Rachel Hawkins

• Her Royal Highness

Heidi Heilig

• The Girl From Everywhere

Christine Lynn Herman

• The Devouring Gray

Talia Hibbert

• Get a Life, Chloe Brown (Brown Sisters #1)
• Take a Hint, Dani Brown (Brown Sisters #2)
• Act Your Age, Eve Brown (Brown Sisters #3)

Faith Erin Hicks

• Pumpkinheads

Shaun David Hutchinson

• The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

Jordan Ifueko

• Raybearer

Justina Ireland

• Dread Nation (Dread Nation #1)
• Deathless Divide (Dread Nation #2)

Dani Jansen

• The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life

N.K. Jemisin

• The Fifth Season (Broken Earth Trilogy #1)
• The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth Trilogy #2)
• The Stone Sky (Broken Earth Trilogy #3)
• The City We Became
• How Long ’til Black Future Month?

Lana Wood Johnson

• Technically, You Started It

Leah Johnson

• You Should See Me in a Crown

Soniah Kamal

• Unmarriageable

Kody Keplinger

• That’s Not What Happened

Adib Khorram

• Darius the Great Is Not Okay

TJ Klune

• The House in the Cerulean Sea

Mary Robinette Kowal

• Shades of Milk and Honey

Nina LaCour

• Watch Over Me
• You Know Me Well

John Larison

• Whiskey When We’re Dry

Mackenzi Lee

• The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

Claire Legrand

• Sawkill Girls

Katrina Leno

• Summer of Salt

David Levithan

• You Know Me Well

Elizabeth Lim

• Spin the Dawn

Darcie Little Badger

• Elatsoe

Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky

• Persephone

Emma Lord

• Tweet Cute

Lisa Maxwell

• The Last Magician

Casey McQuiston

• Red, White & Royal Blue

Nicole Melleby

• Hurricane Season

Lulu Miller

• Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Madeline Miller

• Circe
• The Song of Achilles

Emma Mills

• Foolish Hearts
• This Adventure Ends

Erin Morgenstern

• The Starless Sea

Tamsyn Muir

• Gideon the Ninth

Abdi Nazemian

• Like a Love Story

Natasha Ngan

• Girls of Paper and Fire

Garth Nix

• Sabriel

Naomi Novik

• Uprooted

Nnedi Okorafor

• Binti

Ijeoma Oluo

• So You Want to Talk About Race

Mallory O’Meara

• The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

Katie O’Neill

• The Tea Dragon Society

Susan Orlean

• The Library Book

Kathryn Ormsbee

• The Great Unknowable End

Alice Oseman

• Heartstopper Vol. 2
• I Was Born For This
• Loveless
• Nick & Charlie
• Radio Silence
• Solitaire
• This Winter

Mark Oshiro

• Anger Is a Gift

Margaret Owen

• The Merciful Crow

R.J. Palacio

• Wonder

Kevin Panetta

• Bloom

Tamsen Parker

• If I Loved You Less

C.L. Polk

• Witchmark

Ashley Poston

• Geekerella

Rory Power

• Wilder Girls

Lara Prior-Palmer

• Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race

Brynne Rebele-Henry

• Orpheus Girl

Taylor Jenkins Reid

• Daisy Jones & the Six
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

M.L. Rio

• If We Were Villains

Rebecca Roanhorse

• Race to the Sun
• Trail of Lightning

Margaret Rogerson

• An Enchantment of Ravens

Rainbow Rowell

• Pumpkinheads
• Carry On (Simon Snow #1)
• Wayward Son (Simon Snow #2)

Aisha Saeed

• Yes No Maybe So

Aminah Mae Safi

• Tell Me How You Really Feel

Brandon Sanderson

• Skyward (Skyward #1)
• Starsight (Skyward #2)

A.J. Sass

• Ana on the Edge

V.E./Victoria Schwab

• City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake #1)
• Tunnel of Bones (Cassidy Blake #2)
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
• This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity #1)
• Our Dark Duet (Monsters of Verity #2)
• Vicious (Villains #1)
• Vengeful (Villains #2)

Marcus Sedgwick, Julian Sedgwick, and Alexis Deacon

• Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black

Adam Silvera

• They Both Die at the End
• What If It’s Us

Laura Silverman

• You Asked For Perfect

Samantha Shannon

• The Bone Season
• The Priory of the Orange Tree

Lauren Shippen

• The Infinite Noise (The Bright Sessions #1)
• A Neon Darkness (The Bright Sessions #2)

Emily Skrutskie

• Bonds of Brass

Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer

• To Night Owl From Dogfish

Rivers Solomon

• The Deep

Amy Spalding

• We Used To Be Friends

Maggie Stiefvater

• Call Down the Hawk (Dreamer Trilogy #1)
• The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1)
• The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle #2)
• Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle #3)
• The Raven King (The Raven Cycle #4)
• “Opal” (a Raven Cycle short story)
• The Scorpio Races

Sabaa Tahir

• An Ember in the Ashes

Aiden Thomas

• Cemetery Boys

Angie Thomas

• On the Come Up

Ngozi Ukazu

• Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey
• Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks and Scones

Nina Varela

• Crier’s War

Alexandra Villasante

• The Grief Keeper

Tillie Walden

• Are You Listening?
• On a Sunbeam

Scott Westerfeld

• Imposters

Garret Weyr

• The Language of Spells

Meryl Wilsner

• Something to Talk About

G. Willow Wilson

• The Bird King

Gene Luen Yang

• Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise

F.C. Yee

• The Epic Crush of Genie Lo

Ibi Zoboi

• American Street
• Pride