Spinning Silver

Three years after her last novel left fairy tale conventions, well, Uprooted, Naomi Novik returns with a spiritual successor, Spinning Silver, another fantasy inspired by age-old legends. This is not a sequel, nor is it set in the same world as Uprooted; it is a sister book similarly grounded in Slavic folklore and culture. The book opens on Miryem, the […]

Short stories have always occupied a singular status in the literary world, and are often considered at a remove from novels in terms of conception, structure, and execution. But in sci-fi and fantasy, short stories are also often literary icebergs—tales with so many ideas hiding unseen below the surface that their authors later adapted the […]

Leigh Bardugo’s Kaz Brekker is basically the ultimate book boyfriend—he’s smart, he’s snarky, and you can bet he’ll always surprise you. Plus, he’s just a little bit (okay, more than a little bit) broken. But despite Kaz’s perfection, you probably shouldn’t just reread Six of Crows forever. Here are six books to add to your reading […]

Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and wonderful landscape of books that should be read by everybody, but each month we highlight the perspective of teens reading the best of the best books written for and about them. Check back monthly to see what they’re recommending […]