Category Archives: literary book review

Review: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

Posted on March 27, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synospsis: The future of storytelling is here. Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she’s suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle … Continue reading →

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Review: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Posted on March 23, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc … Continue reading →

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Review: Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi

Posted on March 18, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The intimate, sweeping tale of one man’s restless search for home the world over, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope All his life, exile … Continue reading →

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Review: Hunger by Choi Jin-Young

Posted on March 13, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A word-of-mouth phenomenon turned best-selling cult classic in Korea, Hunger is a visceral, psychologically daring novel that reveals how love and money shape, wound, and consume us. “A feast for the literary senses.”—Anton Hur, Judge of the … Continue reading →

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Review: Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami

Posted on March 11, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: ‘My heart felt very tender reading this. Astonishing Kawakami, as always‘ Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your FaceFrom the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs. Hana has nothing but she’s hopeful. She’s fifteen … Continue reading →

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Review: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Posted on March 4, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood–where … Continue reading →

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Review: Ring Shout by P. Djéli Clark

Posted on February 25, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan’s ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation … Continue reading →

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Review: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Posted on February 23, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: n his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus … Continue reading →

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Review: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Posted on February 21, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady … Continue reading →

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Review: Ashland by Dan Simon

Posted on February 8, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Booshop Synopsis: A deeply moving family story unfolding in richly evocative prose and a poetic portrayal of a town in decline during the final decades of the American century, Ashland is a book of metamorphoses—of the dance between … Continue reading →

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