Dare Me

In the world of high school, no clique is more feared or glamorized than the Mean Girls. Sometimes they’re beautiful and intimidating, other times they’re downright nasty, and they don’t just exist in the real world. They’ve taken over YA lit, too, where we can safely observe them from a distance, without the risk of our […]

High school is a near-universal experience to which we can all relate. It’s also a complicated, messy time in life in which one grows from the end of childhood to the cusp of adulthood, so there’s a lot of feelings to unpack. The result is that hundreds of books have been written about high school…but […]

Megan Abbott is having a Moment. With the publication of her ninth novel, Give Me Your Hand, comes the realization that this brilliant author has flown under the radar for too long, and it’s time we all caught up. Abbott hasn’t really written a bad book yet, but we have our own ideas about where […]

So, you read Gone Girl in one white-knuckled sitting. Then, in no time flat, you tore through our previous suggested list of novels to fill the Gone Girl-shaped hole in your life. That’s okay: You’re our kind of people, the kind of people who can’t get enough sociopathy, murder, twisty plotting, and great writing. We got […]