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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Millennium series once defined a generation of readers. Stieg Larsson’s original trilogy was bold, politically charged, and unforgettably raw, anchored by the enigmatic Lisbeth Salander and the moral journalist Mikael Blomkvist. But with Lokattens Klor (The Lynx’s Claws), the eighth installment […]
When Harlan Coben brings Myron Bolitar and Windsor Horne Lockwood III back together, you know you’re in for a wild, heart-pounding ride. Think Twice, the twelfth installment in the Myron Bolitar series, proves once again why Coben sits comfortably at the top […]
Joël Dicker, best known for his intricate literary thrillers like The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair and The Baltimore Boys, takes a completely unexpected turn with The Very Catastrophic Visit to the Zoo (La muy catastrófica visita al zoo). This charming, […]
In Strange Houses, Uketsu Japan’s viral horror sensation and creator of the chilling Strange Pictures returns with another unnerving puzzle that blurs the line between mystery, horror, and architectural obsession. Translated by Jim Rion, this companion novel transforms something as ordinary as […]
Aria Aber’s debut novel follows Nila Haddadi, a nineteen year old born in Germany to Afghan refugees, as she tries on new selves inside Berlin’s club culture and art scene. Warehouses throb with techno, drugs feel like possibility, and a much older […]
Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s The Sisters is a big, generous novel that aims for the whole constellation of a life: family, diaspora, art, love, ambition, and the curse of loss that seems to hover over every generation. Told across three decades and structured […]