Whether your fascination with Russia is its rich history, unique architecture, fur-tastic fashion, fraught history with the U.S., or something else entirely, YA may just have something that speaks to your Russophilia and your soul. From spies in the Cold War era to Siberia under Stalin, here are our favorite books that bring Russian history to […]
Some great books get nominated for awards, get movie deals, hit bestseller lists, and get so much publicity you can’t swing a stick without hitting a display. Some…don’t. Thanks to some fantastic award picks this year, most notably by the Morris committee (which awards excellence in a debut), this list isn’t quite as long as […]
Fans of Cassandra Claire’s bestselling Mortal Instruments series let out a collective squee when Freeform resurrected the franchise’s onscreen potential after the film didn’t do so great. Enter the Shadowhunters TV show, giving fans another chance to see their favorite characters from City of Bones in as close to real life as possible. The series has me thinking: what […]
Every series fan knows the pain of waiting for the next installment to come out, which is surpassed only by the joy of finally having that sequel in your greedy, desperate hands. A few of 2015’s most anticipated come too late in the year for us to discuss now (Maggie Stiefvater’s fourth Raven Cycle book, […]
Every now and again, you have a visceral experience while reading that sticks in your brain long after you’ve put the book down. Well over a year after reading Lindsay Smith’s debut, Sekret, I still distinctly remember closing the book and yelling “More!” to an empty room, like a toddler who’d been left in a […]