Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • Displaced Persons

    Displaced Persons

    By Joan Leegant

    Belonging. A powerful word. Just reading “belonging” can stir up strong emotions. There may be...

    $18
  • Cecilia

    Cecilia

    By K-Ming Chang

    First encounters with sexual feelings and relationships can be a clumsy, bewildering mix of indescribable...

    $14.95
  • High Hawk

    High Hawk

    By Amy Frykholm

    According to Alice Nighthawk, one of the principal characters in Amy Frykholm’s debut novel High...

    $19
  • The Singularity

    The Singularity

    By Balsam Karam

    The title of Balsam Karam’s novel, The Singularity, is also a description of its formal...

    $16.95
  • The Avian Hourglass

    The Avian Hourglass

    By Lindsey Drager

    An unnamed town with an unnamed narrator are at the center of The Avian Hourglass’s...

    $17.95
  • Silent Light

    Silent Light

    By Mark Jacobs

    In this epic journey through brutalized, fractured communities within the Democratic Republic of the Congo,...

    $23
  • The Coin

    The Coin

    By Yasmin Zaher

    Money pervades language. We talk about what our time is worth, whether others will get...

    $27
  • The Fifth Wound

    The Fifth Wound

    By Aurora Mattia

    Aurora Mattia’s first novel, The Fifth Wound, is many books in one. Sarah Gerard calls...

    $19.95