literary fiction

If you really want to be an ally, reading nonfiction about race in America isn't enough. Black fiction should make your list, too.
Literary fiction might be more empathy-generating than genre books.
A woman remembers her youthful involvement with a violent, Manson-like cult, in a promising debut.
A Book of Job for the secular age, this incest hoax thriller will have readers feverishly turning pages, but questioning the moral underpinnings.
Calling critics sexist for disliking a book doesn't fix the problem of gender inequity in literature.
It's an odd animal: women's literary fiction -- NOT erotica -- with a brazen, sensual and deeply flawed main character. Carmen is perpetually concerned with, touching and baring her body. Yet the sex never becomes the story; it isn't that sort of book.