Look, we’ve all been there. You started out the New Year on a high note. You told yourself you were going to learn a new instrument, become a baking aficionado, and run a marathon all before the year was through. You also told yourself you were going to read twice as many books as you […]
In the past decade, podcasts have gone from background noise to a major part of the pop-culture soundscape. More people are listening to them, and every media company is producing them (not to mention companies like, say, Barnes & Noble). Podcasts are making their presence felt in the book world too, with a growing number of […]
Every author has a story beyond the one that they put down on paper. The Barnes & Noble Podcast goes between the lines with today’s most interesting writers, exploring what inspires them, what confounds them, and what they were thinking when they wrote the books we’re talking about. The Adventure Zone began life as a podcast with an […]
At the end of each month, we share lists of B&N’s current bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the books everyone is talking about—and buying. Hardcovers What SFF, comics, and manga did you buy to kick off 2019?
In a age when superhero comics reign supreme, the biggest surprise of the last year in comics publishing was the debut of a weird little fantasy graphic novel called The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins at number one The New York Times bestseller list. But of course, you know all that already. (If you didn’t, read […]