Posts by Sarah Skilton

About the Author

Sarah is the author of Bruised and High and Dry for teens, and Club Deception for adults. Her new romantic comedy, Fame Adjacent, comes out April 2019. She lives with her magician husband and 6-year-old son in a suburb of L.A. She tweets @Sarah_Skilton.

The Season’s Can’t-Miss New Releases in Fiction

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The Season’s Can’t-Miss New Releases in Fiction

Seven years after The Night Circus won our hearts, Erin Morgenstern returns with an equally riveting sophomore novel full of magic, lush imagery, and...

5 London-Set Books to Read After You See Last Christmas

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5 London-Set Books to Read After You See Last Christmas

Anglophiles, assemble! Last Christmas hits theaters today, about a young woman (GoT’s Emilia Clarke) who works at a year-round ornament store and whose...

October’s Best New Fiction

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October’s Best New Fiction

Holiday season is upon us, so break out the Halloween candy and the eggnog (along with some great reads, of course)! Joe Hill and Leigh Bardugo’s new...

The Best New Fiction of September 2019

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The Best New Fiction of September 2019

This month, heavy hitters such as Margaret Atwood (whose followup to The Handmaid’s Tale is the September Barnes & Noble Book Club selection),...

The Best New Fiction of August 2019

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The Best New Fiction of August 2019

Historical fiction fans have hit the jackpot this month. Two Cold War-era novels, a new series by Preston & Child centered on the infamous Donner...

July’s Best New Fiction

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July’s Best New Fiction

As you head to fireworks, cookouts, and daytrips this summer, you’ll want to make room in your beach bag for these new releases. Whether you’re in the...

June’s Best New Fiction

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June’s Best New Fiction

This month is packed with new releases from fan favorites Jennifer Weiner, Elin Hilderbrand, Elizabeth Gilbert, Kate Atkinson and more. Let the decades...

The Bride Test, and 5 More Books with Differently Wired Protagonists

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The Bride Test, and 5 More Books with Differently Wired Protagonists

I fell hard for Hoang’s debut romance, The Kiss Quotient, a genderbent retelling of Pretty Woman that featured an autistic heroine and a kind-hearted...

May’s Best New Fiction

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May’s Best New Fiction

This month kicks off summer beach read season and we couldn’t be more delighted by the historical fiction and sweeping family sagas in our TBR pile....

Sarah Skilton’s Fame Adjacent, and 7 More Books about Fame

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Sarah Skilton’s Fame Adjacent, and 7 More Books about Fame

This week marks the release of my romantic comedy Fame Adjacent, about the only cast member of a 1990s song-and-dance show who didn’t become famous....

April’s Best New Fiction

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April’s Best New Fiction

This month brings an eclectic mix of historical fiction, with three novels set during the Reagan Era (or the Thatcher Era, depending which side of the...

March’s Best New Fiction

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March’s Best New Fiction

This month brings us tales of witches, espionage, and a Downton Abbey-esque love triangle, as well as an oral history of the dramatic break-up of a wildly...