Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • The Problem You Have

    The Problem You Have

    By Robert Garner McBrearty

    In this highly engaging collection of short stories, award-winning author Robert Garner McBrearty captivates readers...

    $16.95
  • Pinion

    Pinion

    By Monica Rico

    “To find an owl I must follow the crow . . .” so writes Mexican...

    $17.95
  • We Contain Landscapes

    We Contain Landscapes

    By Patrycja Humienik

    In We Contain Landscapes (Tin House, 2025), Patrycja Humienik journeys through memory—personal and communal—reflecting on...

    $16.95
  • Extinction of the Holy City

    Extinction of the Holy City

    By Bronisław Maj

    After World War II, multicultural Poland was forcibly rearranged. German speakers were expulsed from the...

    $17.95
  • Querida

    Querida

    By Nathan Xavier Osorio

    Embedded in place and lush with family, Nathan Xavier Osorio’s collection Querida offers an intimate...

    $18
  • I Was Working

    I Was Working

    By Ariel Yelen

    Do you occasionally fold an invoice into the shape of a futuristic spacecraft, or twist...

    $17.95
  • Milk for Gall

    Milk for Gall

    By Natalie Louise Tombasco

    Upon reading Milk for Gall, the debut poetry collection from Natalie Louise Tombasco and winner...

    $18.95
  • Notation

    Notation

    By Jordan Dunn

    It is a shame that reading calls for a silent, sitting period. It is difficult,...

    $17.95
  • We, Adults

    We, Adults

    By Peter Stenson

    Desire, guilt, and self-destruction drive the subversive narrative of Peter Stenson’s 2024 novel, We, Adults,...

    $20.95
  • The Animal Is Chemical

    The Animal Is Chemical

    By Hadara Bar-Nadav

    Hadara Bar-Nadav’s The Animal Is Chemical is a poetry collection in which generational trauma, global...

    $17.95
  • Near Strangers

    Near Strangers

    By Marian Crotty

    “Almost as soon as I began, it was obvious I was too rusty,” relates the...

    $18.95
  • Women Surrounded by Water

    Women Surrounded by Water

    By Patricia Coral

    When I was considering American University’s MFA program, it was then-student Patricia Coral who convinced...

    $19.95
  • Red Ocher

    Red Ocher

    By Jessica Poli

    Jessica Poli’s debut collection, Red Ocher, stirs with its reverential questioning of ritual, boundary, and...

    $19.95
  • Inner Verses

    Inner Verses

    By Pam Rehm

    Pam Rehm’s seventh collection and her first with Wave Books, Inner Verses, gifts the reader...

    $18
  • The Fire Road

    The Fire Road

    By Nicholas Yingling

    Nicholas Yingling’s debut, The Fire Road, is a place-based poetry collection focusing on Western wildfires...

    $18
  • 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