Going Further by Ted Cruz
Nine hours of one-on-one interviews with a sitting Supreme Court justice is the kind of access most biographers only dream about — and Ted Cruz got it. The result reads less like a courtroom brief than a character study: an unusually candid look at how the nation’s most consequential arbiter thinks, decides, and lives with the weight of it. Whatever your politics, the access alone makes this one worth a look.
Read the Full Story →Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Imagine losing your apartment, your girlfriend, and the entire surface of the planet in the same afternoon — that’s the gut-punch opening of book eight in Dinniman’s runaway LitRPG hit. Eight installments in, most series would be running on fumes; this one still finds new ways to be funny, brutal, and weirdly moving.
Read more →Big Little Truths by Liane Moriarty
Ten years after the trivia night that ended in scandal, the mothers of “Big Little Lies” are back — older, warier, and no less capable of detonating their own lives. Moriarty returns to Monterey with the same sharp instinct for the secrets suburban women keep from each other, and from themselves.
Read more →The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
A serviceberry tree doesn’t ask what the market will bear before it fruits — it simply produces, more than it needs, and gives the rest away. Kimmerer uses that small botanical fact to build a case for a gift economy modeled on how ecosystems actually work: slim, quietly radical, and a natural next read for anyone who loved “Braiding Sweetgrass.”
Read more →- Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth — What does it mean to build an entire second life on top of one unspeakable act? Hepworth’s latest digs into the cost of hiding.
- Theo of Golden by Allen Levi — An 86-year-old man walks into a small-town coffee shop, spots a wall of pencil portraits, and decides to buy them all — a quiet story unfolds from there.
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