Literary Fiction

Have you ever looked at a picture of a dish from a fancy restaurant, or maybe you’ve had this thought when eating at one yourself, and wondered why the portions are so small? After all, if you’re presumably shelling out…

My little sister and I are very alike. If we still lived in the same city, I have no doubt at this point we would definitely get a lot more questions about whether we are fraternal twins. However, I can’t…

Before I even begin this review, let’s go over the hype for this book, shall we? Here we go… Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction Winner of the Andrew Carnegie medal Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize…

Ever since Joli reviewed Leah Franqui’s novel America for Beginners last summer, I knew I wanted to read it. I was so excited to get the opportunity to participate in the current TLC Book Tour for the paperback release.  Pival…

First of all, happy return to LQ, me! I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus to move my life back to Canada, and now that I’m settling back into things, I am taking the opportunity to do some serious TBR…

Well, it finally happened: After months of waiting on the library list for Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, my number came up. Yep, this best-selling hyped up literary fiction read was finally in my hands. Huzzah! Here’s what I thought…

Your life has been plagued with loss. The instant you start to feel better again, your heart clenches at the thought of what sadness lies in wait for you just around the corner. Kit Bianci has lived her whole life…

I’ve been told multiple times by a couple different friends that I’d like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, so I finally decided to pick it up. Those friends must know my reading preferences really well, because I loved it! A…

I added The Last Romantics to my TBR list as soon as I heard it was similar to Commonwealth, one of my favorite reads from 2017. This book is full of love. The love between friends, family and with ourselves.…

Last year, after over a decade of ignoring Jodi Picoult’s novels — discounting them as romance-y chick lit based on one that I read in college — I picked up Small Great Things. It blew me away. When I heard…