November’s Top Picks in Fiction
Fall is here, bringing with it all the chilly weather you need to justify canceling your plans and staying home reading. And this month’s most exciting fiction picks deliver, with a new collection from...
View ArticleThe Incomparable Judy Blume Talks Diary-Keeping, Creative Lightning Bolts,...
Judy Blume is tiny, lovely, and perennially smiling, and when I first laid eyes on her, I thought I might cry. All my long-dormant feelings about Margaret and Sheila the Great and Forever… swirled up,...
View ArticleDecember’s Top Picks in Fiction
There’s no escape quite like a great book, and December’s best releases offer all kinds. Take a road trip through 16th-century Europe with two wayward relic hunters, tour the mid-twentieth century with...
View Article5 Reasons Go Set a Watchman Is the Ideal Gift for Everyone This Holiday Season
The dust has settled, the think pieces have been written, the novel remains at the top of the bestseller lists, and one thing is very clear: Go Set a Watchman was the literary event of 2015. That was...
View ArticleGreat Books on the Big Screen
Winter is the perfect time to hit the movies: the theater provides respite from the cold, it’s the perfect family escape in between holiday meals and cookie bakeoffs, and it’s way easier to sneak in...
View ArticleBig Books from the 1950s
The 1950s saw the emergence of literary lights including J.D. Salinger and Jack Kerouac, authors whose books questioned the status quo and the midcentury preoccupation with conformity. The decade’s...
View ArticleJanuary’s Top Picks in Fiction
Kick off a year of reading awesomely with 10 new titles from luminaries including Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout, perennial bestseller Danielle Steel, and the legendary Joyce Carol Oates. With...
View ArticleThe Immortals Author Jordanna Max Brodsky on the Danger of Dissing Alexander...
Jordanna Max Brodsky’s debut fantasy novel, The Immortals, takes place in a world in which the gods walk among us. A long time ago, isolated New Yorker Selene DiSilva had another name—Artemis, goddess...
View ArticleMiller’s Valley Author Anna Quindlen Share Her 10 Favorite Classics About...
Miller’s Valley, Anna Quindlen’s first novel since 2014’s Still Life with Bread Crumbs, is a searching coming of age centered on science-minded Mimi Miller, aged 11 at the novel’s start. With a frank...
View ArticleThe Widow Author Fiona Barton’s Top 10 Books Featuring Marriages with Dark...
When Londoner Jean Taylor’s husband, Glen, became the prime suspect in a little girl’s death, Jean fell into the role of steadfast spouse, even as the murder investigation turned up increasingly dark...
View ArticleEligible Author Curtis Sittenfeld Shares Her Top 10 Books for Pride and...
While Jane Austen’s enduringly popular novel of love and manners has been retold time and again, through many different mediums, it’s rare that an author of Curtis Sittenfeld’s stature has taken a...
View ArticleMaestra Author L.S. Hilton Shares Her Top 10 Female-Fronted Thrillers
L.S. Hilton’s pitch-black trilogy starter Maestra gives us a new amoral heroine to love: Judith Rashleigh, art house assistant by day and hostess by night, who finds herself—by way of snagging a rich...
View ArticlePre-Order Your Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Script Book Today!
By now, you’ve heard the news: Harry Potter’s story is getting an eighth chapter, in the form of play and script book Harry Potter and the Cursed Child! This is what Potter fans have been waiting for...
View ArticleJune’s Best New Fiction
This month’s most enthralling reads include a dark coming-of-age thriller inspired by the Manson murders, inspiring stories of love and change, and generation-spanning epics to lose yourself in (while...
View ArticleOn The Girls and the Search for the Extreme: An Interview with Emma Cline
Emma Cline’s debut novel, The Girls, has been on our must-read list since its acquisition was announced in 2014 following a massive bidding war. The novel’s elevator pitch is immediately compelling,...
View ArticleIn Remembrance of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor and Winner of the Nobel...
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and author of concentration camp memoir Night, has died. He was 87. A Voice for Six Million Wiesel’s defining work was Night, a wrenching...
View ArticleWriting the Books That Change Your Life: An Interview with Ava Miles
To celebrate our awesome community of NOOK authors, as well as the recent launch of the NOOK Press print platform, we’re talking each month with authors whose books are making a splash with NOOK...
View Article5 Great Books to Sample on Your NOOK Right Now
To celebrate the launch of our new Samsung Galaxy Tab A NOOK device, and $99.99 offer for upgraders, we’re celebrating some of our favorite things to read on the NOOK. If you haven’t yet discovered...
View ArticleFrom Major Publishing Contracts to Self-Published Freedom: An Interview with...
To celebrate our awesome community of NOOK authors, as well as the recent launch of the NOOK Press print platform, we’re talking each month with authors whose books are making a splash with NOOK...
View ArticlePowering Your Writing Through Discovery: An Interview with Bryce Moore
For better or for worse, our memories shape who are. So imagine having the power to steal them from other people—from the memories they cherish, to those they deeply regret. This is the magical premise...
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