You know the best thing after falling in love with an author for the first time? Learning you’ll get to spend even more time with their words in the future. Whether a followup comes after one year or five, there’s nothing like following up with a new favorite and seeing they’ve still got that magic…or […]
I don’t know about you guys, but I love a good Western. Especially because the concept of a western, and the Wild West altogether, is so wide open for interpretation. It doesn’t have to take place among tumbleweeds and saloon doors, with that same song playing every time a showdown is about to happen. High noon? Psh. How […]
This year’s crop of give-me-now historical fiction includes the second release from one of our favorite debut novelists of 2015, a heroine-heavy anthology from an all-female authorial crew, and an irreverent telling of the story of England’s shortest lived queen. Here are 14 books that’ll take you back through time and around the world, because the best vacation is a […]
In 2015, We Need Diverse Books’ battle cry for more diverse reads rang out loud and clear! And in 2016, thanks to readers who are demanding more and publishers who are heeding the call, we can expect even more fabulous—and decidedly diverse—reads to hit the shelves. Herewith, just a small sampling of the awesomely diverse […]
Required reading mainstays like Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, and Arthur Miller should and will always be read, but there are other books that deserve to be added to the canon—books that speak directly to and about the teens reading them. Here are 10 YA books published recently or right now (and one forever classic) that are so […]
