Spy thriller fans, take note: Box 88 should be on your reading list! Lachlan Kite is part of Box 88, a spy organization so secret that not even MI6 and the CIA know it exists. (Why the odd name for a spy agency? That gets explained in the book.) When Kite is abducted and interrogated…

This lush, lyrical book tells of forbidden love against a backdrop of ethnic conflict and a changing climate.

I don’t normally gravitate toward short stories, and I’m not really sure why. However, this year I decided to branch out and read a few. I’m so glad I did! Here are two books of “shorts:” one a collection of essays, the other of stories, and all worthwhile reading. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green…

This extraordinary novel (which has nothing to do with mixed martial arts or the UFC) tells the story of three generations of women in Toronto.

Quentin Tarantino meets The Odd Couple in this searing, heartfelt, suspenseful book.