Marie Rutkoski’s The Winner’s Curse dropped last year to immediate fan-fare. While technically a fantasy novel, you won’t find any magic or dragons in this book. Instead, it’s all about fantastic characters in all their emotional complexity. Set in a world reminiscent of ancient Rome, it follows Kestrel and Arin, two people from very different cultures, as […]
These are the truths that keep me up at night: It’s easy to let great books fall through the cracks, and it’s impossible to read everything worth reading. To avoid undue panic/reprehensible gaps in your bookshelf that will slowly come to haunt and mock you like Poe’s raven, be sure to read every single book on […]
Autumn: great season, or GREATEST season? It’s more than the candy corn, unholy latte hybrids, and pleasure of taking your favorite sweaters out of storage. There’s something in the air right now, a chilly undertone that half makes you want to run around in the brisk, and half makes you want to hide indoors with […]
In an epic year for young adult lit, in the midst of a YA golden age, these are the 2015 books that made us laugh, cry, ship, reread, and stay up late, that inspired us to add too many exclamation points to our emails and too many gifs to our online reviews. These are the best of the […]
The holidays are great—and so is the family time that comes with them—but once in a while we need to hole up in our bedrooms and escape all that togetherness. When you can’t just hop in a car and ride far, far away, turn to a book that can make you feel like you’re a thousand […]