★★★★★ A thought-provoking and heartbreaking coming of age story, mixed with a small town mystery. My clear favorite of 2021 by a wide margin

★★★★★ An ambitious, sprawling novel that intertwines 3 storylines across different places and times, but magically comes together in the end

★★★★★ A scientist trapped alone in space trying to survive. What worked for The Martian does again and this time might be even better.

★★★★★ When two young gay men are murdered, their fathers join forces to take solving the murders into their own hands.

★★★★★ A ragtag group of soldiers (and a few criminals) are staffed at the end of the universe. Things are mostly boring...until they're not

★★★★★ Meet protagonist Marian Graves, a woman in determined to fly planes in the early 1900s at a time when women, quite simply, didn't.

What happens when a mom can't connect with her child, and she starts to wonder if her child isn’t just different, but maybe truly a bad kid?

★★★★☆ What happens when 4 septuagenarians entertain a hobby of solving cold cases, only to have a body turn up at their retirement home?

★★★★☆ Maggie D'Arcy is back in a solid sequel to The Mountains Wild that confirms (for me) that Sarah Stewart Taylor is for real!

★★★★☆ A thief with a wry sense of humor is reluctantly paired up with a badass female knight on a quest to save the knight's queen.

★★★★☆ When the matriarch of the famous Delaney tennis family goes missing, family dynamics and long-held grudges are on full display.

★★★★☆ When Lore Perseous makes a deal with the goddess Athena, she is thrust into the middle of a once-every-seven-years event.