Most preparation lists for a film adaptation are wildly optimistic about your calendar. They hand you eleven books and a chart of the Greek pantheon and assume you have retired. So let me try something more useful and organise what to read before Nolan’s Odyssey by the only variable that matters, which is how much […]
A genuine, textured portrait of a family on the front lines and home fronts of WWII Searching for Harold: One Family’s World War II Story in Letters is Stephen Watts’s second venture into epistolary family history. Watts’s comfort with genealogy is evident in his treatment of the sizable correspondence of the Watts and Carleton families, […]
An atmospheric, genre-bending memoir that transforms life’s smallest detours into profound moments of revelation In It Happened. Make of It What You Will, Joanna Potepa resists tidy generic classification, blending memoir, travel writing, and personal essay into a mosaic of what she calls “still frames:” brief moments in which ordinary experience takes on unexpected significance. […]
Some novels are built for solitary reading. Others practically beg to be argued about over wine and someone’s good cheese board. How to Find Love in the Cereal Aisle by Alissa DeRogatis belongs firmly to the second group, which makes sense once you learn the publisher tucked a reading group guide into the back of […]
Next to You by Hannah Bonam-Young on March 10, 2023 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy Pages: 418 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Lane is in the middle of an identity crisis. Her friends are all partnered up, her career is heading nowhere, and simply put, she’s not […]
Synopsis: Emery inherits a mystical necklace and a cryptic warning of its importance to humanity’s survival. When her mother’s body vanishes, Emery leads a band of refugees into a desolate, post-apocalyptic world and an eerie underground city, ruled by unscrupulous and immortal beings. Grieving her mother’s death, haunted by visions emitted by the necklace, and […]
Two hours into a charter trip off the Oregon coast, a woman is braced against the rail of a boat with a rod bending in her hands, screaming that she will not be bested by a Picasso-looking fish. A deckhand asks her to mind the children on board. Her firefighter roommate, who has caught nothing […]
Every week, we put together a list of the bestselling books of the week, according to all the biggest lists. For all the books that have appeared in this roundup this summer, check out our collection of the Bestselling Books of Summer 2026. Sign up for All Access to create your own collections! Anyone can […]
On the first page of this book, an eighty-one-year-old widow serves her job applicant a cup of Earl Grey. The applicant never mentioned liking Earl Grey. The widow drinks coffee. It takes almost the whole novel to understand what that cup of tea actually was, and when I did, I went back and read the […]
There is a chapter in this book that is exactly one word long. A few chapters later there is another, also one word, and the second word is not printable on a family-friendly blog. Both belong to a frog. I have been reading fantasy for most of my life and I cannot remember the last […]