The Gone World is brilliant: part noir murder mystery, part alternate history, part here-comes-the-apocalypse, and part thriller. It’s unique, mind-bending…
Sleeping Giants is a great science fiction thriller/mystery with a fun hook: a girl biking through a forest falls in…
This book sells itself as “high fantasy and low stakes” and delivers on both counts. There’s all manner of creatures…
Dr. No reads like the author does not care whether anyone reads this book or not; he had fun writing…
Super Sad True Love Story is an engaging, literary love story that takes place in a near-future dystopian society where…
There’s nothing like a murder mystery for exploring a strange new world, and that’s exactly what John Scalzi does in…
Shards of Earth hits everything I love about space opera. Great characters, a grand scale, interesting technology, aliens that are…
The Brief History of the Dead is a fascinating, odd (in the best sense of the word), and deeply inventive…
The Kaiju Preservation Society is ridiculously fun. It’s easy to imagine author John Scalzi grinning like a maniac as he…
I’m a fan of Stephen King, and 11/22/63 is one of his best. There’s more humor than horror, and a…