Star Wars: Reading “Heir to the Empire” by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 1)

On Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire, the first novel in his acclaimed Thrawn trilogy, which relaunched Star Wars franchise fiction after a half-decade hiatus.

Reading “Shadow” by Anne Logston (Shadow 1)

Anne Logston’s Shadow (1991) introduced a talented new fantasy writer with a tightly plotted, elegantly written, hilariously bawdy adventure about an expert thief who gets in over her head when she robs the wrong person. If you like Xena: Warrior Princess or Baldur's Gate 3, then you'll love Shadow.

Reading “Juniper” by Monica Furlong (Doran 1)

Monica Furlong's Juniper is a beautiful, powerful novel of girlhood and community in ancient Cornwall that transcends its position as middle-grade fiction and demonstrates why Furlong's magical fictions of the ancient Celtic world, told from the perspective of women's experiences, deserve another look.