Category: Great Fiction
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Loon Point
Carrie Classon, 2026 5 Stars This book is quietly beautiful. From the beginning when we meet our four characters and a withering dog, we are not sure where they will interact and what types of relationships they will build together. We see that Norry and Bud are caregivers and Lizzie…
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Migrations
Charlotte McConaghy, 2020 Five Stars, no decay. I’ve read her work in reverse order (third, second, this) and I’ve stepped closer and closer to each one, finding myself almost inside of the work. McConaghy is fascinated with her female heroines going wild, untethering from society and drawing closer to nature…
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Once There Were Wolves
Charlotte McConaghy, 2021 5 stars of absolute perfection. McConaghy builds increasing tension between the scientist team rewilding wolves, the resistant agricultural Scottish society, Inti’s growing attraction to local sheriff Duncan, and her estrangement and intimacy with her twin sister Aggie. It’s an absolute fire between each of the tension points…
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Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, 2025 4.25 Stars for haunted, mesmerizing nature fiction. Before writing this review, I drove in the snow to the library to get one of her earlier books, because I’m just that intrigued by Charlotte McConaghy’s voice and narrative style. This one is a stealthy thriller that gives you…
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The Best Worst Thing
Lauren Okie, 2025 Absolute perfection and one of the top five books I’ve read this year. Lauren Okie pulls through on two major storylines: A wife experiencing infertility and treatments with her dirtbag finance bruh husband, and the crackling dialogue with her old work crush whom she conjures back into…
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