Friday Question #58: What are your favorite underrated reads?

Book Talk Friday Question
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Happy Friday, BookishFirst Readers!

This week we want to know: what are some of your favorite underrated reads? And by underrated, we mean books not as many people have read or heard about.

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The Box by Victoria M. Patton
The Hollow Gods by A.J. Vrana

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Valor by John Gwynne

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So many! Ones to come to mind: In a Day’s Work by Bernice Yeung, We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry, the Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker, Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold, How to Survive a Plague by David France, The Coyotes of Carthage by Steven Wright

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Sloane Tanen’s books - Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same, Hatched, etc. I bought her books about 12 years ago for my baby niece at the time. I laughed so hard I bought myself a set .My niece loved her books.
She uses those cheap (I so want to write CHEEP) yellow chicken pom pom toys and sets them in settings.

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The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood. Everyone seems to have heard of her other book, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, but this one flies under the radar.

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The Migration by Helen Marshall. Phenomenal apocalyptic/dystopian novel. I think the problem with this one is that it was marketed to adults when it would’ve been much more successful with the young adult crowd!

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Ill Will by Dan Chaon is AMAZING. I think a lot of people didn’t really like the writing style but I highly recommend it. I couldn’t put it down!

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I’m looking forward to reading that! I really liked All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, so I have high hopes.

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THE CURRENT By Tim Johnston, DEFECTORS By Joseph Kanon, IN WILDERNESS by Diane Thomas, ONE MORE RIVER By Mary Glickman,

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Death by Social Suicide series by Karen Anne. And The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey

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The Woman Before Wallis: A Novel of Windsors, Vanderbilts, and Royal Scandal by Bryn
Turnbull (historical fiction)
The First Actress: A Novel of Sarah Bernhardt by C. W. Gortner (historical fiction
That Old Dead Magic (#12 in the Rat Pack Mystery Series) by Robert J. Randisi (mystery)
Gobbledy by Lis Anna-Langston (Grade 8-11)
The Wrong Family by Tarryn Fisher (domestic thriller)
When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship by Martha Teichner (nonfiction)
Blood Alley by Tom Coffey (1940s noir)

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The Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series by Laurie R. King. She writes great mystery with humor and intrigue in every chapter.