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In Elizabeth Hand’s seductive, slow-burning gothic novel Unspeakable Things, 18-year-old Olivia Madden enjoys a privileged yet precarious life in the 1920s. She’s the neglected daughter of Peter, a closeted, once famous actor whose career has long been in decline and now lives at Kerrith Hall, a rented, understaffed estate on the Cornish moors. Despite living

After many, many years of user requests, Goodreads now allows half-star and quarter-star ratings. How’s everyone feeling about it? I sifted through thousands of comments on Instagram and Reddit, and here are the top sentiments being shared: ⭐ Hooray!: There are a lot of party popper emojis in the Goodreads Instagram comments, but it’s not

Alice Hoffman’s historical fantasy and K.S. Shay’s intriguing debut are both set in that most magical of regions: New England. Originally Posted Here

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Silas House’s The Tulip Poplars is a story of love between people that society says should not love each other. House, a poet and the author of Southernmost, traces the paths of four friends who call the Appalachian mountain town of Bright Star, Kentucky, home through much of the 20th century. The four friends are

This week, the most read books on Goodreads list had a bit of a shake-up. Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke has been knocked down to the third position, thanks to the recent movie adaptation of Verity by Colleen Hoover. Plus, a new novella in a popular romantasy series has swooped in to snag the #1

In 2024, artificial general intelligence researcher Andrej Karpathy coined the term “jagged intelligence” for AI. “What he meant,” writes Kevin Roose, “was that AI systems could be astonishingly brilliant in some ways and astonishingly dumb in others.” Two years later, it’s hard to imagine more fortuitous timing for Roose’s The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story

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You couldn’t ask for a better examination of the significance of Black quiltmaking than Stories in the Seams: A People’s History of Black Quilts and Their Makers. As the writer of Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre and Textiles and editor of Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilts in the American South, New Orleans-based scholar Sharbreon

Canadian poet Anne Carson is the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson was selected “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature,” according to a Nobel Prize Outreach 2026 press release. If you’re not familiar with Carson or her

“To me, the uncanny isn’t defined by fear. It’s about objects with shadow, undocumented history, the past and other lives.” That’s how author and photographer Mark C. O’Flaherty describes his aesthetic in Sanctum: At Home With the Uncanny, a book that celebrates eccentric collections of objects and the moody, luxurious interiors where they reside. A

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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club) continues his winning lighthearted mystery ways with We Chase Shadows, a sequel to We Solve Murders. While The Thursday Murder Club series features four sleuths who have banded together in a retirement home, the We Solve Murders mysteries spotlight an unlikely trio who, in book two, have formed a

Hide by Carolina Ebeid “It adds up to a memorable and skillful excavation of identity and inheritance.” —Publishers Weekly “Carolina Ebeid interlaces American English, Palestinian Arabic, and Cuban Spanish as she excavates memories—of her Palestinian father and Cuban mother’s forced migrations—in order to reconstruct her own ancestry and chart her path forward.” —National Book Awards

Say it ain’t so, Joe! After 36 years and 15 novels (not to mention short stories, graphic novels and a TV series), Edgar Award-winning author Joe R. Lansdale is retiring his indomitable duo, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine.  At Petrified Dreams’ opening, the two are already retired from the detective business, or so they think.

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Partita is, in a way, a love story, though the central love in question is not for a person, but for classical piano. Livia Bohusz grows up on a dairy farm in rural east Tennessee, her most prized possession a copy of the key to the local church where she practices piano day after day.

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A vampire serial killer, a haunted Cold War submarine and one very unsettling dog will be haunting our dreams (nightmares?) this season. Originally Posted Here

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It’s easy to see why Stephen Graham Jones is one of the most beloved authors in modern horror. His books are filled with vivid, terrifying imagery, he incorporates social commentary with deft grace and, of course, his intimate knowledge of the genre has made him a favorite among readers who like things a bit meta.

October is bursting with 2026 anticipated releases. Because it’s hard to keep track of the many notable new books out this month, I combed through some prominent lists to make sure you know which books are the talk of the town. If you want to browse the full lists, here are the ones I consulted

Jessica is a stay-at-home mom to a teen named Sandy, who dabbles in witchcraft. Her husband, Greg, works at some internet company where he does things she doesn’t fully understand. Jessica wouldn’t exactly call herself happy, but tries not to think too hard about why, especially when it comes to her own sexual identity.  When

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Choose your perfect Halloween adventure from these four festive reads, ranging from middle grade to young adult novels. Originally Posted Here

Since 2006, the Center for Fiction has been highlighting the best debut novels of the year through its First Novel Prize. This year’s 180 eligible titles were published in the US between January 1st and December 31st, and were narrowed down to seven books by more than 500 writers, librarians, booksellers, and others. In early

A Game of Cat and Killer The subtitle of Jiro Akagawa’s novel A Game of Cat and Killer is “The Casebooks of Mikeneko Holmes,” “mikeneko” being the Japanese word for “calico cat.” As you might guess, casebooks suggests that this is the first book of a series; as you might not guess, the novel was

It’s big things poppin’ for all things having to do with The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood. First off, the 2021 mega-bestselling STEMinist romance, which began as a Reylo fanfic, has already been adapted into a buzzy new film that just came out on September 23rd on Prime Video. Secondly, Hazelwood announced Tuesday that not

Hernan Diaz’s extraordinary latest work, Ply, is set amid modernity’s wreckage, but it is not quite a postapocalyptic novel. There was no capital-C Calamity, just the inevitable entropy greed engenders. The antagonists are primarily executives, chief financial officers of utility companies with private armies (except the one who’s more of a tech giant a la

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