What do you get the person who has everything? How about action, suspense, intrigue, romance, and drama? 2016 has been full of thrilling reads that will have even the pickiest of readers on the edge of their seats. These are the perfect reads for snow days, to assuage the holiday blues, and to ensure your […]

Yes, yes, we know. You know. Everybody and their great aunt knows. If you liked Gillian Flynn’s dark and suspenseful Gone Girl, then you have to read Paula Hawkins’s page-turner The Girl on the Train—and vice versa. But you likely knocked out both of those books before the calendar flipped over to 2016. So what […]

Experimenting with the “voice” telling a story is a fundamental tool of the fiction-writing trade. Narrators come in a wide variety of styles, from first-person intimate, to unreliably distanced, to godlike in knowledge and perception. The way a story is told is just as important—sometimes more so—than the story itself. Still, most narrators are more or less conventional. They […]

E. Lockhart’s jaw-dropper of a novel We Were Liars is out today—and it’s one of those books you should read right away, before someone spoils the ending for you. It’s a book you’ll find yourself reading quickly, way past your bedtime. And to help keep you up for nights to come, Lockhart has recommended her favorite novels […]