Quizlit’s Book of the Month January 2026 is the stunning new story collection The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. Book of the Month January 2026 The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie Buy Now: Amazon | AbeBooks Two quarrelsome […]
Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday—the weekly challenge from That Artsy Girl! This week’s topic is Ten Books I Hope Santa Brings or Bookish Wishes. It’s Christmas Day, and although I didn’t find any of the books from my list under… Read More The post Top Ten Tuesday – Books I Hope Santa Brings or Bookish […]
Debra Webb returns with her most ambitious Vera Boyett novel yet, proving that some secrets aren’t just difficult to keep—they’re impossible. In Secrets You Can’t Keep, the third installment in the series following Deeper Than the Dead and Closer Than You Know, Webb masterfully interweaves two seemingly unrelated investigations that push crime analyst Vera Boyett […]
There’s a particular intimacy that comes with reading a book about reading itself—a meta-experience that feels like having coffee with a friend who truly understands your relationship with books. Hwang Bo-reum’s Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books offers precisely this kind of companionship, inviting readers into a sustained meditation on […]
Falon Ballard’s venture into romantasy proves that contemporary romance authors can craft compelling fantasy worlds without sacrificing the emotional depth that makes their previous work resonate. Something Wicked transforms the brutal ambition of Macbeth into a surprisingly tender story about power, sacrifice, and the dangerous game of trusting someone who could destroy you. While the […]
Christmas Eve by Washington Irving was originally published in 1876 as part of his short story collection Old Christmas, a nostalgic journey to the heart of 19th-century holiday celebration. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. Christmas Eve by Washington Irving Christmas Eve by Washington […]
Deadpan by Harold Eppley Genre: Middle Grade Fiction / Disabilities & Diseases ISBN: 9781645385851 Print Length: 292 pages Publisher: Orange Hat Publishing Amazon Bookshop Reviewed by Melissa Suggitt In a world obsessed with smiles, Jackson’s story shows what it really takes to be seen. Deadpan lands with the ease of a well-told joke: light on […]
Memory Memory Go Away by Christopher W. Selna Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Cyberpunk ISBN: 9798993607627 Print Length: 474 pages Amazon Reviewed by Eric Mayrhofer Christopher Selna explores the power, trauma, and the cost of mental health in the thought-provoking gothic cyberpunk novel Memory, Memory, Go Away. What if you could change your life by […]
When your steamy romance novel about a prime minister becomes a bestseller and suddenly everyone thinks you’re actually having an affair with your boss’s husband, what do you do? For Andi Zeigler in Amy Lea’s latest contemporary romance, The Bodyguard Affair, the answer involves fake dating the hot bodyguard who ghosted her three years ago. […]
Synopsis: It’s been fifteen years since the supervillains conquered the world, and Ledge Carp—better known as the maniacal Crime Clown—is restless. With his archenemy Fox Man long dead and no one left to challenge him, the world feels dull. When an alien warlord named Siege returns to Earth with an armada prepared for invasion, Carp […]