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Exclusive Excerpt: A Young Weaver Struggles to Make Ends Meet in Beguiled By Lacy Baugher Milas July 22, 2022 | 6:45pm
Best Historical Fiction for Fans of the Tudor Clan By Lacy Baugher Milas July 21, 2022 | 1:30pm
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau Is a Stirring Rumination on Faith, Family, and Humanity By Samantha Sullivan July 20, 2022 | 12:33pm
Just Like Home: Sarah Gailey Exorcises Our Grisly Obsession with True Crime By Natalie Zutter July 19, 2022 | 12:30pm
The Vampire Chronicles: Experts Weigh in On Literature’s Best Vampires By Whitney Friedlander July 18, 2022 | 4:11pm
What Moves the Dead Is Delicate, Atmospheric, and Thoroughly Creepy By Lacy Baugher Milas July 15, 2022 | 12:15pm
Exclusive Cover Reveal + Author’s Note: Wings Cursed and Bound Is an Urban Fantasy Inspired by Thai Mythology By Lacy Baugher Milas July 14, 2022 | 12:32pm
10 Young Adult Books Netflix Should Adapt Immediately By Liz Lawson July 13, 2022 | 10:30am
The It Girl Is a Compulsively Readable Mystery About Memory and Loss By Lacy Baugher Milas July 12, 2022 | 11:30am
The Mighty Thor: A Comics Guide to Jane Foster By Dana Forsythe July 11, 2022 | 1:30pm
The Burning Season: Alison Wisdom Explores Belief, Belonging, and the Dark Side of Faith By Lacy Baugher Milas July 9, 2022 | 12:12pm
Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: Vampire Weekend Is a Punk Rock Tale of Found Family By Lacy Baugher Milas July 8, 2022 | 1:01pm
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Is Gabrielle Zevin at Her Most Expansive By Alexis Gunderson July 7, 2022 | 1:15pm
The Best New YA Books of July 2022 By Lacy Baugher Milas July 7, 2022 | 11:14am
7 Books to Fill the Stranger Things-Sized Void in Your Life By Natalie Zutter July 6, 2022 | 11:25am
What Happened to Captain Hook After Neverland? Find Out In This Exclusive Excerpt From Hooked By Lacy Baugher Milas July 5, 2022 | 2:04pm
This Vicious Grace Has All the Elements of a Perfect YA Fantasy Romance By Lacy Baugher Milas July 4, 2022 | 11:15am
The Best New Fantasy Books of July 2022 By Lacy Baugher Milas July 1, 2022 | 11:25am
Exclusive Excerpt: Teen Demigods Find Themselves Selected to Compete In The Sunbearer Trials By Lacy Baugher Milas June 30, 2022 | 1:00pm
Our Crooked Hearts is a Witchy Tale of Sisterhood with Serious The Craft Vibes By Lacy Baugher Milas June 29, 2022 | 4:02pm
The Best New Romance Books of June 2022 By Carly Lane June 29, 2022 | 12:45pm
Blade Breaker: Victoria Aveyard’s Epic Fantasy Sequel Ups the Stakes For All By Lacy Baugher Milas June 28, 2022 | 11:00am
The Novels About Abortion That Everyone Should Read By Lacy Baugher Milas June 27, 2022 | 5:01pm
A Tale of Two Nolas: Alex Jennings’s The Ballad of Perilous Graves By Paste Staff June 27, 2022 | 3:00pm
The House Across the Lake: A Hauntingly Familiar Tale—Until It’s Not By Amanda Mullen June 23, 2022 | 4:03pm
Ms. Marvel: A Comics Guide to Kamala Khan By Dana Forsythe June 22, 2022 | 11:41am
Juniper and Thorn Is a Lush Fairytale with a Dark Heart By Lacy Baugher Milas June 21, 2022 | 10:01am
A Queer Teen Wants to Make His Imaginary Love Real In This Excerpt from The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers By Lacy Baugher Milas June 20, 2022 | 1:01pm
11 LGBTQIA+ Audiobooks to Carry You Through Pride 2022 (and Beyond) By Alexis Gunderson June 20, 2022 | 10:30am
What to Read if You Can’t Get Enough of Heartstopper By Ani Bundel June 17, 2022 | 5:15pm
Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: A Scammer Aims to Claw Her Way to the Top in Stone Cold Fox By Lacy Baugher Milas June 17, 2022 | 2:17pm
Why It's So Difficult to Adapt The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Problematic Romance By Natalie Zutter June 16, 2022 | 10:15am
A Mirror Mended: Alix E. Harrow’s Fractured Fairytales Series Remains Delightful By Lacy Baugher Milas June 15, 2022 | 11:30am
Geraldine Brooks’s Horse is a Sweeping Look Back at Both Horseracing and Race in America By Lacy Baugher Milas June 14, 2022 | 11:15am
The Appearance of a Mysterious Woman Causes an Accident In This Excerpt from Our Crooked Hearts By Lacy Baugher Milas June 13, 2022 | 1:00pm
Hell Followed with Us Is a Furious Post-Apocalyptic Tale of Queer Survival By Lacy Baugher Milas June 10, 2022 | 2:01pm
Forging Silver Into Stars: Brigid Kemmerer’s Return to Her Cursebreakers World Deftly Explores Trauma and Healing By Lacy Baugher Milas June 9, 2022 | 12:01pm
Counterfeit Is a Complicated Tale of Friendship, Lies, and Knockoff Handbags By Lacy Baugher Milas June 8, 2022 | 10:31am
For The Throne: Hannah Whitten’s Dark and Thrilling Wilderwood Saga Sticks the Landing By Lacy Baugher Milas June 7, 2022 | 10:15am
A Procedural Without Police: B. L. Blanchard’s The Peacekeeper By Paste Staff June 6, 2022 | 3:01pm
Exclusive Cover Reveal: Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn Reissued in Author’s Preferred Text Edition By Lacy Baugher Milas June 6, 2022 | 1:01pm
8 Gripping Beach Reads to Cool Off With This Summer By Amanda Mullen June 3, 2022 | 12:01pm
The Best New YA Books of June 2022 By Lacy Baugher Milas June 2, 2022 | 2:15pm
The Best New Fantasy Books of June 2022 By Lacy Baugher Milas June 1, 2022 | 2:01pm
Achilles, Patroclus, and Helen of Troy Prepare for a Different Kind of War in This Exclusive Excerpt from Wicked Beauty By Lacy Baugher Milas June 1, 2022 | 11:01am
David Sedaris Grows Up with Happy-Go-Lucky By Whitney Friedlander May 31, 2022 | 1:15pm
Gaslighting Is the Key to a Successful Shining Girls Adaptation By Natalie Zutter May 30, 2022 | 11:15am
The Best New Romance Novels of May 2022 By Carly Lane May 27, 2022 | 12:01pm
Read the First Chapter of Namina Forna’s Fantasy Sequel The Merciless Ones By Lacy Baugher Milas May 25, 2022 | 12:02pm
Hide: Kiersten White’s Adult Horror Debut is a Supernatural Roller Coaster By Lacy Baugher Milas May 24, 2022 | 10:01am
Like Under the Banner of Heaven and Candy? 9 Other True Crime Books Becoming TV Shows and Movies By Whitney Friedlander May 23, 2022 | 2:15pm
Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: Radiant Sin Continues Katee Robert’s Dark Olympus Series with the Story of Apollo and Cassandra By Lacy Baugher Milas May 23, 2022 | 11:01am
The Best Completed YA Fantasy Series to Read Right Now By Lacy Baugher Milas May 20, 2022 | 9:01am
Athena Offers Achilles a Chance to Become Her True Self in This Exclusive Excerpt from Wrath Goddess Sing By Lacy Baugher Milas May 19, 2022 | 1:11pm
Breezy Romantic Thriller My Summer Darlings Takes Summer Obsession to New Heights By Lacy Baugher Milas May 17, 2022 | 10:30am
Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: A Girl Meets a Legendary Korean Goblin in Last of the Talons By Lacy Baugher Milas May 16, 2022 | 1:01pm
How Apple TV+’s Pachinko Made the Most of Its Changes From the Original Book By Delia Harrington May 13, 2022 | 1:00pm
Exclusive Cover Reveal: Hex You Is the Final Installment in the Sisters of Salem Trilogy By Lacy Baugher Milas May 12, 2022 | 12:58pm
8 Must-Read New Thrillers for Summer 2022 By Natalie Zutter May 11, 2022 | 9:01am
A Comics Guide to America Chavez: The MCU’s Hard-Punching New Superhero By Dana Forsythe May 10, 2022 | 3:00pm
Family of Liars: A Serviceable Return to the World of We Were Liars By Amanda Mullen May 10, 2022 | 10:30am
I Kissed Shara Wheeler: Casey McQuiston’s YA Debut is a Charming Queer Mystery By Lacy Baugher Milas May 9, 2022 | 11:01am
Jennifer Saint’s Elektra Gives the Angry Women of Ancient History a Voice By Lacy Baugher Milas May 6, 2022 | 10:01am
Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: Attraction Sizzles Between a Spy and a Spymaster in The Duke in Question By Lacy Baugher Milas May 5, 2022 | 1:01pm
Book Lovers: Emily Henry’s Charming Meta Romance for the Hallmark Cynics By Natalie Zutter May 5, 2022 | 9:50am
The Best New YA Books of May 2022 By Lacy Baugher Milas May 4, 2022 | 11:02am
Book of Night: YA Star Holly Black Levels Up with Her Dark Adult Debut By Lacy Baugher Milas May 3, 2022 | 10:15am
The Best New Fantasy Books of May 2022 By Lacy Baugher Milas May 2, 2022 | 11:00am
10 Best Jane Austen Retellings By Liz Lawson April 29, 2022 | 2:00pm
The Best New Romance Novels of April 2022 By Carly Lane April 28, 2022 | 1:01pm
Nettle & Bone Mixes Horror and Heart in a Bittersweet, Complex Dark Fantasy By Lacy Baugher Milas April 27, 2022 | 1:00pm
Kaikeyi Brilliantly Reimagines a Despised Queen from Indian Mythology By Lacy Baugher Milas April 26, 2022 | 11:01am
8 Surreal Short Story Collections to Listen to After Watching Roar By Alexis Gunderson April 25, 2022 | 3:00pm
10 Must Read Comic Series of 2022 By Dana Forsythe April 23, 2022 | 10:00am
Sparks Fly When Two Rivals Are Forced to Work Together in This Exclusive Excerpt of From Bad to Cursed By Lacy Baugher Milas April 21, 2022 | 10:30am
8 Thriller Books True Crime Lovers Will Devour in One Sitting By Amanda Mullen April 20, 2022 | 10:59am
Blood Sugar: An Unsettling but Gripping Character Study By Amanda Mullen April 19, 2022 | 11:01am
What to Read While You Wait for Severance Season 2 By Natalie Zutter April 18, 2022 | 2:32pm
10 Best Contemporary Romance Books: Fake Dating Edition By Liz Lawson April 14, 2022 | 5:30pm
A Teen with Hip Dysplasia Longs to Become a Mermaid in This Exclusive Excerpt from Breathe and Count Back From Ten By Lacy Baugher Milas April 13, 2022 | 12:59pm
8 Romance Books to Read if You Loved Bridgerton Season 2 By Carly Lane April 12, 2022 | 11:01am
Celebrate National Poetry Month (and the Oral Tradition) with These 6 Audiobooks By Alexis Gunderson April 11, 2022 | 1:01pm
The Best YA Books of April 2022 By Lacy Baugher Milas April 8, 2022 | 11:30am
Does Bridgerton's Shift Away From the Books in Season 2 Work? By Ani Bundel April 7, 2022 | 11:10am
Lillie Lainoff Wants to Change the Way You See Disability in Fiction with One for All By Lacy Baugher Milas April 6, 2022 | 1:07pm
In a Garden Burning Gold Messily Mixes Rich Political Fantasy with Intergenerational Trauma By Lacy Baugher Milas April 5, 2022 | 11:01am
The Best Fantasy Books of April 2022 By Lacy Baugher Milas April 4, 2022 | 10:15am
Will George R.R. Martin Ever Finish A Song of Ice and Fire? (And Does It Matter Anymore If He Doesn’t?) By Lacy Baugher Milas April 1, 2022 | 11:04am
5 Audiobooks to Download Immediately if You Dig The Cartographers’s Vibe By Alexis Gunderson March 31, 2022 | 6:00pm
The Best New Romance Books of March 2022 By Carly Lane March 30, 2022 | 3:00pm
A Budapest Full of Magic and Horror Comes to Life in This Exclusive Excerpt from This Rebel Heart By Lacy Baugher Milas March 30, 2022 | 11:22am
The Wolf Den is a Fierce, Feminist Tale of a Vibrant and Brutal Pompeii By Lacy Baugher Milas March 29, 2022 | 10:00am
Like Apple TV+’s Pachinko? 10 Other Books Becoming TV Series This Spring By Whitney Friedlander March 28, 2022 | 11:29am
Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: The Witch and the Tsar Reimagines the Tale of Baba Yaga By Lacy Baugher Milas March 25, 2022 | 11:01am
The Bone Orchard: A Necromantic Political Fantasy That Could Use Some Pruning By Natalie Zutter March 22, 2022 | 11:15am
Watch: Nate & Bob Odenkirk Discuss Their New Audio Drama Summer in Argyle By Keri Lumm March 18, 2022 | 5:32pm
The Book of Cold Cases is a Haunting Tale About Facing Ghosts By Amanda Mullen March 16, 2022 | 11:35am
Secret Identity: A Noir Mystery About the Uncredited Heroes of Comics History By Natalie Zutter March 15, 2022 | 1:01pm
Catriona Ward on the Unique Female-Focused Horror of Sundial By Lacy Baugher Milas March 14, 2022 | 2:31pm
Crimson Reign and The Triumph of Amelie Wen Zhao’s Blood Heir Trilogy By Lacy Baugher Milas March 11, 2022 | 4:32pm
The Most Magical Quotes From Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn By Lacy Baugher Milas March 10, 2022 | 4:40pm
How Great Is This Party! 5 Killer Audio Whodunnits to Catch You on Your Comedown from The Afterparty By Alexis Gunderson March 8, 2022 | 12:15pm
The Best Romance Novels That Give The Gilded Age-Style Power Couple Vibes By Carly Lane March 7, 2022 | 9:00pm
The Best New YA Books of March 2022 By Lacy Baugher Milas March 4, 2022 | 12:35pm
The Atlas Six: The Dark Fantasy Viral Sensation is the Real Deal By Lacy Baugher Milas March 4, 2022 | 10:15am
The Best New Fantasy Books of March 2022 By Lacy Baugher Milas March 2, 2022 | 9:10am
Fantasy King Brandon Sanderson Just Raised $15 Million on Kickstarter in a Single Day By Jim Vorel March 2, 2022 | 8:52am
V.E. Schwab on the Beautiful Horror that Lurks in the Halls of Gallant By Lacy Baugher Milas March 1, 2022 | 10:02am

Editors' Picks

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