Recs if you like The Yellow Birds...

For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.

More to come!

Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!

This is a list of books where a mysterious character finally gives their life story.

according to read your color on substack | updated periodically

Books with orange covers!

This list is about historical fiction books as they often make the characters or their interactions feel so real even if there is a bit of fiction.

Sometimes history can make our hearts race and threaten our future.

These are all the books that changed my life and the way that I view the people and cultures around me.

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize, inaugurated in 2006, is the first and only annual U.S. literary award recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace. The Dayton Literary Peace Prize invites nominations in adult fiction and nonfiction books published within the past year that have led readers to a better understanding of other cultures, peoples, religions, and political points of view.

fiction edition finalists