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Netflix’s Delightful
Baby-Sitters Club
Series Understands What Made the Books So Special
By Alexis Gunderson
July 1, 2020 | 10:13am
Rating
9.7
music
The Books:
The Way Out
By Christina Lee
July 26, 2010 | 9:00am
books
The Possession of Alba Diaz
is Haunting Historical Horror
By Matthew Jackson
August 21, 2025 | 10:01am
Rating
8.0
books
The Library at Hellebore
Is a Dazzling Horror-Fantasy from Cassandra Khaw
By Matthew Jackson
July 23, 2025 | 10:01am
Rating
8.0
books
The Nightshade God
Is an Unhinged, Chaotic, and Thoroughly Satisfying Series Conclusion
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 15, 2025 | 12:00pm
Rating
8.0
books
Rose in Chains
Is a Highly Addictive Dark Romantasy That Does Right By Its Fanfic Roots
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 8, 2025 | 11:00am
Rating
8.5
books
Chris Chibnall Flexes His Storytelling Skills In a New Medium with
Death at the White Hart
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 24, 2025 | 10:30am
Rating
8.5
books
Bury Our Bones In the Midnight Soil
Is V.E. Schwab’s Answer to
Interview with the Vampire
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 10, 2025 | 10:00am
Rating
9.0
books
With
Never Flinch
, Stephen King Offers an Overstuffed Thriller That Still Delivers
By Matthew Jackson
May 28, 2025 | 10:00am
Rating
7.3
books
The Knight and the Moth
Is a Gorgeously Imagined Gothic Fantasy Romance
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 20, 2025 | 11:00am
Rating
9.0
books
The Devils
Is a Rollicking, Old School Fantasy Adventure (With Teeth)
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 13, 2025 | 10:00am
Rating
8.0
books
Silver Elite
Is Bringing Bingeable Dystopian Fiction Back
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 6, 2025 | 11:00am
Rating
7.4
books
The Raven Scholar
Deserves to Be the Biggest Fantasy Book of the Year
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 15, 2025 | 10:00am
Rating
9.8
books
Holy Terrors
Offers a Chaotic, Thoroughly Satisfying Conclusion to Margaret Owen’s
Little Thieves
Trilogy
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 3, 2025 | 10:30am
Rating
9.6
books
Sunrise on the Reaping
Is the
Hunger Games
Prequel We’ve Been Waiting For
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 20, 2025 | 10:00am
Rating
9.0
books
Cynthia Pelayo Weaves A Chilling Dreamscape in
Vanishing Daughters
By Matthew Jackson
March 11, 2025 | 10:30am
Rating
8.5
books
Emily St. James’s Literary Debut
Woodworking
is a Tale of Friendship, Identity, and Community
By Kayleigh Donaldson
March 4, 2025 | 11:15am
Rating
8.6
books
With
The Dark Mirror
, Samantha Shannon's
Bone Season
Series Becomes the Fantasy Saga Our Moment Requires
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 27, 2025 | 10:00am
Rating
8.5
books
Hurricane Wars
Sequel
A Monsoon Rising
Puts Romance Ahead of Politics
By Lacy Baugher Milas
December 10, 2024 | 10:30am
Rating
7.0
books, latest
Remaking an Identity: Memory and Mistakes in
The Last One
By Alana Joli Abbott
December 3, 2024 | 11:00am
Rating
7.9
books
The Lotus Empire
Offers a Blockbuster Conclusion to the Burning Kingdoms Trilogy
By Lacy Baugher Milas
November 12, 2024 | 10:30am
Rating
9.6
books
So Thirsty
Is Everything You Could Want from a Rachel Harrison Vampire Novel
By Matthew Jackson
September 10, 2024 | 10:30am
Rating
8.5
books
Long Live Evil
Is a Deliciously Subversive Celebration of Everything We Love About Fantasy Romance
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 30, 2024 | 6:20pm
Rating
8.7
books
Crypt of the Moon Spider
Is a Fiendishly Imaginative Nightmare
By Matthew Jackson
August 28, 2024 | 10:00am
Rating
8.5
books
Wisteria
Brings Adalyn Grace’s
Belladonna
Trilogy to a Close By Shifting the Series' Focus
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 22, 2024 | 11:15am
Rating
8.0
books
Kailee Pedersen's
Sacrificial Animals
Is One of the Year's Best Horror Debuts
By Matthew Jackson
August 20, 2024 | 10:30am
Rating
9.0
books
Ava Reid’s
Lady Macbeth
Is Ferociously Feminist But Not Particularly True to Shakespeare’s Text
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 13, 2024 | 10:40am
Rating
6.4
books
A Sorceress Comes to Call
Is Whimsical, Subversive Fantasy Perfection
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 7, 2024 | 12:00pm
Rating
9.8
books
Casey McQuiston’s
The Pairing
is a Feast for the Senses and the Feels
By Natalie Zutter
August 6, 2024 | 10:40am
Rating
9.8
books
Such Charming Liars
Sees Karen McManus Spin a Different Kind of Teen Thriller
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 30, 2024 | 4:28pm
Rating
8.0
books
In Spellbinding Sequel
Le Fay
, the Most Famous Sorceress of Arthurian Legend Enters Her Villain Era
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 17, 2024 | 10:30am
Rating
9.0
books
The Bright Sword
is a Radiant Reimagining of Arthurian Legend
By Emily Price
July 16, 2024 | 10:30am
Rating
9.8
books
Bury Your Gays
Cements Chuck Tingle's Place as a Vital Voice in Horror
By Matthew Jackson
July 12, 2024 | 10:00am
Rating
8.5
books
Jenn Lyons's
The Sky on Fire
Is Breezy High-Fantasy with Bite
By Hayden Mears
July 11, 2024 | 12:00pm
Rating
8.2
books
Long Island Compromise
Feels Your Pain
By Whitney Friedlander
July 9, 2024 | 1:00pm
Rating
9.0
books
Rebirth Below the Waves in Leslye Penelope’s
Daughter of the Merciful Deep
By Alana Joli Abbott
July 4, 2024 | 10:45am
Rating
9.8
books
Gretchen Felker-Martin's
Cuckoo
is a Brutal, Remarkably Human Monster Story
By Matthew Jackson
June 14, 2024 | 5:00pm
Rating
8.0
books
I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons
Proves Peter Beagle Is Always Worth the Wait
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 15, 2024 | 12:00pm
Rating
9.2
books, drink
Forbidden Cocktails
Entertains With Spirited Libations Celebrating Scandalous Pre-Code American Cinema
By Jim Vorel
May 7, 2024 | 2:00pm
Rating
7.5
movies
Turtles All the Way Down
Flattens John Green's Novel
By Autumn Wright
May 1, 2024 | 1:40pm
Rating
5.0
books
In
To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods
, a Heroine Puts Survival Above All—But at What Cost?
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 18, 2024 | 3:30pm
Rating
7.0
books
Second Nightshade Crown Installment
The Hemlock Queen
Has a Few Sophomore Stumbles
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 10, 2024 | 11:30am
Rating
7.0
books
Leigh Bardugo Effortlessly Steps Into a New Genre with Historical Fantasy
The Familiar
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 9, 2024 | 11:00am
Rating
8.8
books
The Angel of Indian Lake
: An Overstuffed and Utterly Unstoppable Final Chapter In Stephen Graham Jones’s Epic Horror Trilogy
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 2, 2024 | 10:30am
Rating
8.3
books
Alexandra Tanner's
Worry
Is a Late Millennial Nightmare
By Emily Price
March 27, 2024 | 4:02pm
Rating
8.2
books
How to Solve Your Own Murder
Is a Well-Written, Straightforward Mystery
By Jay Snow
March 26, 2024 | 5:01pm
Rating
8.3
books
'The Haunting of Velkwood' Is Gripping High-Concept Horror
By Matthew Jackson
March 6, 2024 | 11:30am
Rating
9.0
books
Soyoung Park’s
Snowglobe
Is a Thrilling Dystopian Page-Turner
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 29, 2024 | 9:23pm
Rating
8.9
books
Navigating the Tides of Change In Eliza Chan’s
Fathomfolk
By Alana Joli Abbott
February 27, 2024 | 11:35am
Rating
9.0
books
Nowhere Like Home
Is Another Inviting and Delicious Mystery from Sara Shepard
By Jay Snow
February 21, 2024 | 6:30pm
Rating
8.5
books
The Book of Love
: Kelly Link's Epic First Novel is a Layered, Long Ode to Love In All Forms
By Felicia Reich
February 16, 2024 | 2:23pm
Rating
7.5
books
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Is a Bittersweet Story of Things Both Lost and Found
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 13, 2024 | 11:14am
Rating
8.6
books
Paranormal Romance
Bride
Marks a Refreshing Swerve for Author Ali Hazelwood
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 6, 2024 | 10:30am
Rating
8.8
books
Come and Get It
Is a Satirical Ode to the Complicated, Imperfect Lives of College Women
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 3, 2024 | 10:00am
Rating
8.0
books
The House of Last Resort
is Another Horror Page-Turner From Christopher Golden
By Matthew Jackson
January 31, 2024 | 1:30pm
Rating
8.0
books
In
The Heiress
, Long-Held Family Secrets Take Center Stage
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 9, 2024 | 10:40am
Rating
7.9
books
Ruthless Vows
Is a Satisfying If Occasionally Overly Fantastical Sequel to
Divine Rivals
By Lacy Baugher Milas
December 28, 2023 | 1:00pm
Rating
7.9
books
Michael Cunningham’s
Day
Is a Timeless Exploration of a Very Specific Moment
By Lacy Baugher Milas
November 20, 2023 | 10:45am
Rating
9.4
books
Check & Mate
Is a Delightful YA Debut From Romance Queen Ali Hazelwood
By Lacy Baugher Milas
November 7, 2023 | 10:40am
Rating
9.2
books
A Stroke of the Pen
Is an Unexpected, Heartfelt Gift to Terry Pratchett Fans
By Lacy Baugher Milas
October 27, 2023 | 1:30pm
Rating
9.0
music
The Gaslight Anthem Let Go of the Past on
History Books
By Eric R. Danton
October 26, 2023 | 11:30am
Rating
7.5
books
With
Sword Catcher,
Cassandra Clare Finally Steps Out of the Shadow of Shadowhunters
By Lacy Baugher Milas
October 20, 2023 | 11:35am
Rating
8.2
books
A Light Most Hateful
Is an Inventive, Creepy Wonder
By Matthew Jackson
October 10, 2023 | 10:14am
Rating
8.0
books
Starling House
: A Cynical Protagonist Grounds This Strangely Sweet Haunted House Story
By Lacy Baugher Milas
October 6, 2023 | 11:40am
Rating
8.4
books
A Haunting on the Hill
Beautifully Carries the Legend of Hill House Forward
By Matthew Jackson
October 5, 2023 | 10:45am
Rating
9.0
books
Empowering the Marginalized in S.L. Huang’s
The Water Outlaws
By Alana Joli Abbott
August 22, 2023 | 10:40am
Rating
9.8
books
Thornhedge
Reminds Us That All the Best Fairytales Have Teeth
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 15, 2023 | 10:40am
Rating
9.5
books
Daniel Kraus'
Whalefall
Is a Pulse-Pounding, Stunning Achievement
By Matthew Jackson
August 9, 2023 | 11:35am
Rating
9.5
books
Looking Glass Sound
Is an Unsettling Look at the Thin Line Between Fiction and Memory
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 8, 2023 | 10:20am
Rating
8.9
books
One of Us Is Back
Is a Thrilling Conclusion to Karen McManus’s Bayview Trilogy
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 26, 2023 | 12:35pm
Rating
8.8
books
Silver Nitrate
Is Another Instant Silvia Moreno-Garcia Classic
By Matthew Jackson
July 18, 2023 | 12:15pm
Rating
9.0
books
A Likeable Woman
Is a Rare Misstep From Summer Thriller Queen May Cobb
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 13, 2023 | 10:40am
Rating
6.2
books
The Jasad Heir
Strikes a Perfect Balance of Competition, Romance, and Political Intrigue
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 11, 2023 | 12:40pm
Rating
9.0
books
Love, Theoretically
Is Ali Hazelwood’s Nerdiest (and Best) STEM Romance Yet
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 14, 2023 | 10:45am
Rating
8.4
books
Provocative Southern Noir Thriller
All The Sinners Bleed
Is S.A. Crosby’s Best Yet
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 7, 2023 | 11:20am
Rating
8.0
books
Girls and Their Horses
Is a Delicious Thriller for the
Saddle Club
Set
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 6, 2023 | 10:40am
Rating
7.9
books
The Lost War
Is a Satisfyingly Traditional Old School Fantasy
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 22, 2023 | 12:05pm
Rating
7.7
books
Yellowface
Is an Addictive, Uncomfortable Evisceration of Modern Day Publishing
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 16, 2023 | 10:40am
Rating
8.4
books
Jennifer Saint’s
Atalanta
Gives A Lesser Known Greek Heroine Her Due
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 9, 2023 | 11:30am
Rating
8.7
books
Making the Familiar New In Rebecca Yarros's
Fourth Wing
By Alana Joli Abbott
May 8, 2023 | 12:45pm
Rating
8.5
books
The Salt Grows Heavy
Is an Elegant Mermaid Nightmare
By Matthew Jackson
May 3, 2023 | 10:40am
Rating
9.0
books
A Sleight of Shadows
Returns Readers to Kat Howard’s Unseen World
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 27, 2023 | 10:40am
Rating
7.0
books
Emily Henry’s Latest Contemporary Romance Will Transport You to Your
Happy Place
By Natalie Zutter
April 25, 2023 | 10:22am
Rating
9.0
books
The Haunting of Alejandra
Is an Intimate Chiller
By Matthew Jackson
April 20, 2023 | 3:46pm
Rating
8.0
books
The Secret Service of Tea and Treason
: India Holton’s Back with Another Delightfully Whimsical Romance
By Allison Nichols
April 19, 2023 | 11:16am
Rating
8.5
books
The Bone Shard War
Sends Andrea Stewart’s Drowning Empire Trilogy Off In Epic Style
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 18, 2023 | 10:33am
Rating
9.6
books
Peter Beagle’s
The Way Home
Is a Reminder That He’s Always Been One of Fantasy’s Greats
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 7, 2023 | 10:30am
Rating
9.8
books
A House with Good Bones
: A Sly, Wry Southern Gothic Nightmare
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 28, 2023 | 10:30am
Rating
8.7
books
Faithless, Unbroken, Revolutionary: The Powerful Second Installment of C.L. Clark's “Magic of the Lost” Series
By Alana Joli Abbott
March 14, 2023 | 10:45am
Rating
9.8
books
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
Is a Genre-Defying, Propulsive Fantasy Romp
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 9, 2023 | 11:22am
Rating
8.8
books
The Golden Spoon
Finds a Winning Recipe In a Story Of Murder at a Baking Competition
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 8, 2023 | 11:25am
Rating
7.8
books
The Foxglove King
: A Stunning Series Opener With Death Magic Laced Through Every Page
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 7, 2023 | 10:30am
Rating
9.8
books
The Devil on the Deep Blue Sea: Piracy, Magic, and Diablos in
The Wicked Bargain
By Alana Joli Abbott
March 1, 2023 | 1:15pm
Rating
9.8
books
A Day of Fallen Night
Is the Absolute Best Kind of Expansive Fantasy Epic
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 28, 2023 | 9:30am
Rating
9.8
books
Don't Fear the Reaper
Is Another Triumph From Stephen Graham Jones
By Matthew Jackson
February 8, 2023 | 9:45am
Rating
9.5
books
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
: Roshani Chokshi's Adult Debut Shimmers with Dark Delights
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 7, 2023 | 10:30am
Rating
8.6
books
Begin Again
is Emma Lord's Best Book Since
Tweet Cute
By Allison Nichols
January 24, 2023 | 9:45am
Rating
9.5
books
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
: Romance Author Talia Hibbert's YA Debut Is a Winner
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 3, 2023 | 9:15am
Rating
8.9
games
In
Pentiment
, People Are Like Books, and Books Are Like People
By Emily Price
November 14, 2022 | 8:00am
Rating
9.2
books
A Strange And Stubborn Endurance
: A Fantasy Romance That Proves Trust is the Sexiest Thing of All
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 27, 2022 | 10:30am
Rating
8.6
books
Hell Followed with Us
Is a Furious Post-Apocalyptic Tale of Queer Survival
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 10, 2022 | 2:01pm
Rating
8.6
books
Delilah Green Doesn't Care
: A Sexy Queer Romance with Emotional Heft
By Delia Harrington
February 23, 2022 | 10:30am
Rating
7.5
books
The Paris Apartment
Sets a Dark Mystery in the City of Light
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 22, 2022 | 3:03pm
Rating
7.0
books
A River Enchanted
: A Magical Island Takes Center Stage in Rebecca Ross’s Adult Debut
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 16, 2022 | 10:00am
Rating
8.4
books
Crescent City: House of Sky and Breath
: Sarah J. Maas’s Fantasy Sequel Expands Its World Like Never Before
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 15, 2022 | 10:01am
Rating
9.0
books
This Woven Kingdom
: A Star-Crossed Romance Set in a Rich Persian-Inspired Fantasy World
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 1, 2022 | 11:00am
Rating
7.8
drink
High West Whiskey High Country Single Malt
By Jim Vorel
December 23, 2021 | 9:30am
Rating
7.7
books
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Modernizes Hawaiian Legends
By B. David Zarley
March 31, 2020 | 3:56pm
Rating
9.0
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