The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney by Suzanne Harper

Sparrow Delaney is the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter. By all accounts, she should be a very powerful psychic. Her mother, her grandmother, and her sisters Oriole, Dove, Wren, Raven, Lark, and Linnet can all communicate with the dead, and they are baffled by her apparent lack of psychic ability. In [...]

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The Name of this Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch

This is the story of Cass and Max-Earnest, but those are not their real names. The story of what happened to them is a secret, but the author of The Name of this Book is Secret was never very good at keeping secrets. He advises you, therefore, to forget what you have read [...]

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A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb

Helen is a ghost. She has been for 130 years. All she can remember from her previous life is her name, age, and the fact that she is female. She survives through an attachment to hosts–living people to whom she clings. She has had five hosts, none of whom knew [...]

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The Garden of Eve by K. L. Going

When Evie’s mother passes away, she and her father move from Michigan to New York, and take over an old orchard that no one can coax to grow. It stands dead, blackened and withered, and is thought by locals to be cursed. It has been that way since the disappearance of another young girl [...]

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Everlost by Neal Shusterman

Most everyone, at some point in his or her life, ponders the question of what happens after death. Everlost provides an interesting answer, in the form of a world that exists between life and death. As the story begins, Allie and Nick wake up dead. Nine months have passed since the car [...]

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The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

A story about a time traveling librarian sounds like fun, right? Well, you’ll have to look elsewhere for a lighthearted science fiction adventure. This is angsty, heart-wrenching, emotional stuff, but it’s worth it. Henry DeTamble has “Chrono-Displacement”, which means that he can time travel, but here’s the catch – he has no control over when [...]

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

This is the story of the end of the world, or at least the end of the planet Earth. The Vogons, a (technologically if not intellectually) superior alien race, need to build a new hyperspatial express route, and our planet is in their way. Luckily, Earthlings Arthur Dent and Tricia McMillan manage to [...]

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The Prestige, by Christopher Priest

Families have secrets, some are just more dangerous than others. Feuds can be deadly, or they can just make you wish you were dead. In The Prestige, Christopher Priest details the lives of dueling magicians Alfred Borden and Rupert Angier. Borden and Angier each tell their side of the story in the form of diaries [...]

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The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Have you ever wanted to jump inside your favorite book? In The Eyre Affair, heroine Thursday Next is able to do just that. In a universe parallel to our own in which fantastic feats such as time travel are possible, literature is highly prized. Thursday is a literary detective and as the [...]

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The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Every now and then Hollywood produces a really wonderful movie, a modern classic.  In my opinion, The Princess Bride absolutely qualifies.  But I am here to argue that the book (which came first) is even better.  While I love the movie, I think I enjoy the book even more.
What William Goldman presents is the “good [...]

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