26 Books You Should Read This Spring

"Reader, I murdered him." So begins Jane Steele, Edgar-nominated Lyndsay Faye's modern retelling of Jane Eyre. Like the protagonist of her favorite novel, Jane Steele is an orphan who suffers at the hand of her cruel aunt and then later becomes a governess. But Jane Steele is different than Jane Eyre — when her cousin knocks her down, she kills him.