Crosshairs, Catherine Hernandez
Set in a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods leading to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called The Boots seizes on the opportunity … Read more
Category Archives: Cultural/Regional
Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan
Aljaz Cosini is leading a group of tourists on a raft tour down Tasmania’s wild Franklin River when his greatest fear is realized—a tourist falls … Read more
Betty, Tiffany McDaniel
“A girl comes of age against the knife.” So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father … Read more
The Veins of the Ocean, Patricia Engel
Set in the vibrant coastal and Caribbean communities of Miami, the Florida Keys, Havana, Cuba, and Cartagena, Colombia, with The Veins of the Ocean Patricia … Read more
The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones
This book follows four childhood friends ten years after an elk hunt gone wrong. Some of them leave the rez, while others stay, and the … Read more
Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger
Little Badger’s debut novel, “Elatsoe”… is a young adult fantasy about a 17-year-old Lipan Apache girl who can awaken the ghosts of dead animals and … Read more
Crooked Hallelujah, Kelli Jo Ford
Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine–a mixed-blood Cherokee woman– and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma’s Indian Country in the hopes … Read more
Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest, Rebel Girls
From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes the historical novel based on the life of Dr. Wangari Maathai, the Nobel Peace … Read more
Animal’s People, Indra Sinha
Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People looks at the Bhopal gas explosion in India – one of the most horrific environmental disasters of the 20th-century. A poisonous … Read more
Forbidden Fruit, Stanley Gazemba
The idea for Forbidden Fruit came to me in the expansive garden of an old colonial bungalow in Nairobi’s Lavington Estate, where I was then … Read more
The Octopus and I, Erin Hortle
A stunning debut novel set on the Tasmanian coast that lays bare the wild, beating heart at the intersection of human and animal, love and … Read more
The Seed Thief, Jacqui L’Ange
Jacqui L’Ange’s debut novel, The Seed Thief, will be made into a film. According to The Reading List, rights to the novel have been bought by indie … Read more
The Deep Blue Between, Ayesha Harruna Attah
Twin sisters Hassana and Husseina’s home is in ruins after a brutal raid. But this is not the end but the beginning of their story, … Read more
Blaze Island, Catherine Bush
Climate change is both an external and internal phenomenon in Catherine Bush’s brilliant new novel, Blaze Island. Set on an island off the coast of … Read more
Seasonal Series, Ali Smith
Echoing Keats’s famous ode, the book is punctuated by placid country scenes of grain being harvested, birds flying south, days growing shorter and nights longer … Read more