We’re thrilled to announce that Zero to Well-Read has won two Signal Awards! The podcast, which is part book club, part English class, took home silver for Best New Podcast and bronze for Arts & Culture. In each episode, hosts Jeff O’Neal and Rebecca Schinsky present a deep dive into a classic or cultural significant
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As many fans of Sherlock Holmes know, Arthur Conan Doyle had a real-life inspiration when he created the world’s most famous fictional detective. His muse was Joseph Bell, the surgeon who taught Conan Doyle when the future author was a medical student in Edinburgh. In Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes, author Lindsey
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If you’ve ever brought a toddler to the grocery store, you know what it’s like to write a novel. You can prepare all you want, but it will never go the way you expect. There’ll be surprises, distractions, accidents, meltdowns and the occasional detour down the wrong aisle. Sometimes you might impulsively throw something in
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We are fortunate to live at a time when books of all kinds are available from many sources. As historian Andrew Pettegree shows in his lively, thoroughly engaging The Bookshop: A History of Bookselling from the Dawn of Print to the Twenty-First Century, it’s taken many twists and turns to reach this point. The author
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Coming of age in 1920s Britain, Olivia yearns for freedom. Her father, a closeted actor, and his longtime lover have established a life of quiet respectability in the country, their security dependent on conformity and discretion. When Olivia meets wild, working-class Tamsin, she can no longer contain her desire for a more liberated life—but in
Ready or not, the season of Best Books of the Year lists has arrived. As usual, Barnes & Noble is leading the pack. It feels a little early to say farewell to 2026, especially when so many buzzy books are out in October, but here we are. Barnes & Noble has named their picks for
During a tough time, my cousin surprised me with a care package that included a fabulous homemade card, and the personal touch provided me with a much-needed boost. You, too, can create similar gifts with Martina Calvi’s The Art of Snail Mail: 20 Mail Art Craft Projects for Crafting Connection. For adults and children alike,
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Want to turn an ordinary T-shirt into a work of art? Or create a lasting message for yourself or others? All you need is some basic supplies and Ciara LeRoy’s Lettered in Thread: Creative Techniques for Designing and Embroidering Meaningful Messages. LeRoy, founder of the Cincinnati-based Pretty Strange Design, is an artist specializing in hand-lettering
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It’s fascinating to learn about the inspirations for and driving forces behind cultural icons, and Serling: A Journey Into the Twilight Zone With TV’s First Visionary provides that kind of in-depth education. Before Alan Sepinwall began writing his insightfully presented chronicle of Rod Serling’s extraordinary life, he “worried that I wasn’t enough of a Serling
The trailer for Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew has arrived. Greta Gerwig’s highly-anticipated Netflix film premieres in theaters on February 12, and the trailer reveals more than we’ve seen yet of her spin on the first story in the Narnia chronology. Watch it here: Here are my first impressions: “Stairway to Heaven”? Tell me it’s rock
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.