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 […]
This year, April brings showers, impending flowers, and some young adult fiction so mindblowingly good it’ll spring clean your brain. It’s the best month for YA lit since, well, March. Here are the new must-read teen books we’re finally getting our hands on: Dreams of Gods and Monsters, by Laini Taylor In 2011 Taylor introduced the […]
The Opposite of Loneliness, by Marina Keegan, is a slim collection of insightful short stories and essays by a writer at the beginning of a promising career—one cut short by tragedy when the author died in a car crash a few days after she graduated from Yale. Similarly, This Star Won’t Go Out is a posthumous collection […]
In her beloved, indispensable Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy, a portal fantasy spanning Earth and the angel- and chimaera-populated land of Eretz, Laini Taylor established her bona fides as a creator of rich, expansive worlds, author of impossible love stories, and spinner of narrative spells. In Strange the Dreamer, the first in a planned duology that’s out […]
