The International Booker Prize 2026 longlist has been announced. This year’s list features 13 books translated from 11 languages, by authors and translators representing 14 nationalities. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. International Booker Prize 2026 The longlist for the 2026 International Booker Prize […]
An intimate portrait of endurance, desire, and the messy truths of growing up and moving on The Biscuit Tin follows the life of Marie Delaney, tracing her journey from a young English woman who leaves her rural village to marry a Frenchman, only to traverse through an unhappy marriage, early widowhood, and yet another complicated […]
A harrowing account of the devastating, real-life hurricane that hit Galveston in 1900 When Remembering the Storm begins, Ellie is nearing her 95th birthday. As a retired life-long school teacher, Ellie spends her days meeting up with her friends for lunch, volunteering at the local library, and attending the Galveston Historical Foundation meetings to advocate […]
There’s something deliciously ironic about two people who predict the weather for a living being completely blindsided by their own emotional forecast. And Now, Back to You by B.K. Borison delivers exactly this premise, serving up a contemporary romance that explores what happens when rigid routine collides with spontaneous adventure—and whether the resulting storm can […]
Monsters, magic, and a missing person case collide in this riveting novella that doubles as a study of self-identity and the search for truth. There are monsters among us in Chelsea Sutton’s Krackle’s Last Movie, a delightfully campy novella with a dark side. Evoking classic creature features and supernatural thrillers, Sutton immerses readers in a […]
An engaging chronicle of a modern day pilgrim, hitting the highways and byways of America from 2018-2022 Seeing America Between the Lines is a pensive and insightful journey into the mind of Ronald K. Henderson, a man exploring a country he’s beginning to understand less and less in fraught times. With more free time and […]
A rich, experimental, and deeply-layered evocative examination of place and motherhood during a time of national and global crisis Cecily Parks navigates womanhood, motherhood, and place as the environment—and a nation—unravels during a time of pandemic and socio-political turmoil in The Seeds. Deeply rooted in natural imagery, each poem threads the personal with the ecological. […]
An intriguing, moodily tense portrait of an artist that’s both touching and disturbing When Bobby Shaw’s father abandoned his family, he left Bobby and sister Maddy to be raised in Massachusetts by an embittered, controlling mother. Admiration for her daughter contrasts her denigration for a son she’s considered ugly from birth. She mocks his way […]
The Name Game on April 9, 2026 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads Beth O’Leary delivers such a clever and heart-filled premise in The Name Game — because what could possibly go wrong when two Charlie Joneses arrive on a tiny island of 500 residents… to manage the same […]
When I Kill You by B.A. Paris arrives as a sophisticated evolution from her breakout debut Behind Closed Doors, delivering a slow-burn exploration of obsession, identity, and the impossibility of escaping one’s past. This psychological thriller demonstrates Paris’s continued command of narrative tension while tackling darker, more morally complex terrain than her earlier work. The […]