Book Reviews & Recommendations
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Vigdis Hjorth’s Is Mother Dead is a deeply psychological and unsettling novel that examines the tangled emotional terrain between mothers and daughters. Set in Oslo, it follows Johanna, a sixty-year-old artist who returns home after decades abroad to prepare […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.5/5) Neige Sinno’s Triste Tigre is not a book one simply reads; it is a book one survives. Written with a rare blend of lucidity and anguish, this hybrid of memoir and essay examines the lifelong impact of sexual abuse […]
Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3/5) Kyle Prue’s How to Piss Off Men: 106 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego is as bold and unapologetic as its title suggests. Marketed as a quick-witted handbook for calling out toxic masculinity, it promises over a […]
Lisa Genova, the acclaimed neuroscientist and author of Still Alice, returns with another emotionally rich and scientifically grounded novel, More or Less Maddy. This time, she turns her compassionate lens toward bipolar disorder, crafting a story that is as illuminating as it […]
Invisible by Eloy Moreno is one of those rare books that leaves an imprint long after you’ve turned the last page. Told through the eyes of a young boy, it’s a powerful and emotionally charged story about bullying, loneliness, and the silent […]
What is love? Is it the rush of first romance, the quiet loyalty of lifelong companionship, or the unspoken tenderness shared between strangers? In Love Stories, beloved Australian author Trent Dalton turns this timeless question into a beautiful tapestry of real human […]
Few writers capture the fragile interplay between memory, melancholy, and meaning as masterfully as Georgi Gospodinov. In Death and the Gardener, translated with remarkable sensitivity by Angela Rodel, the International Booker Prize–winning author of Time Shelter turns inward, tracing the final month […]
In Jävla karlar (Damn Men), Andrev Walden delivers a brilliant and darkly funny debut that transforms chaos and trauma into sharp, lyrical storytelling. The novel, which won Sweden’s prestigious August Prize, recounts the author’s unusual childhood seven different fathers in seven years […]
John Green has always had a rare gift for blending intellect with emotion, and in The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, he takes that talent to an entirely new level. This is his first nonfiction book, adapted from his critically […]
A heartfelt, sharp, and necessary memoir of migration, identity, and love in modern Germany Tahsim Durgun’s “Mama, bitte lern Deutsch: Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft” is one of those rare books that manages to be both funny and devastating at once. […]