Friday, July 4, 2025

Six top Greek mythology retellings

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John Wiswell is a disabled author who lives where New York keeps all its trees. His fiction has been translated into 10 languages. He won t...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Seven titles featuring parents & children at the end of the world

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Barnaby Martin is a multi-talented storyteller and creator. Besides his writing, he is an award-winning and self-taught composer, video ess...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Fourteen top essay collections

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At GQ (UK edition) Josiah Gogarty tagged the "best essay collections for proving how amazingly well-read you are." One title on t...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Amateur sleuths with offbeat jobs

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Molly MacRae spent twenty years in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Upper East Tennessee, where she managed The Book Place, an ...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Four horror books for the Fourth of July

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At Book Riot Emily Martin tagged "four horror novels to get you in the mood for the 4th of July this year (…or not)." One title o...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Eight mysteries and thrillers starring older sleuths and criminals

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Sue Hincenbergs is a former television producer who has worked on multiple award-winning programs. She lives in Toronto with her (very much...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Nine London-set historical mysteries

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Julia Seales is a novelist and screenwriter. She earned an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, and a BA in English from Vanderbilt University. S...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Twenty authors' summer reading

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The Guardian asked twenty authors (including Anne Enright, Rutger Bregman, David Nicholls, Zadie Smith, and Colm Tóibín) about their summer...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Nine stories and folktales featuring sisters

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Fran Littlewood is the author of Amazing Grace Adams , which was an instant New York Times bestseller and a #ReadWithJenna book club pick. ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Five top literary mysteries set in coastal Massachusetts

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Dwyer Murphy is the author of An Honest Living and The Stolen Coast , both of which were New York Times Editors’ Choice selections. He is ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Eight novels that capture the drama and intrigue of filmmaking

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Joanna Howard is the author of the novel Porthole (2025) and the memoir Rerun Era (2019). Other works include Foreign Correspondent (201...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Seven books about our passion & need for reading

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Donna Seaman is the adult books editor at Booklist , a member of the Content Leadership Team for the American Writers Museum, and a recipie...