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  • Holiday Shopping Guide from Reader Services

    Happy Holidays! Here are some of our 2019 favorites for the readers on your shopping list this year: Edge of Your Seat • The Last Woman in the Forest by Diane Les Becquets • The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda • American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson • Freefall by Jessica Barry • No Exit… Continue reading

  • (NOT) The Ten Best Books of 2019

    That time of year has rolled around again when all the “Best Of” lists begin to appear, those tempting listicles claiming to reveal the best books of the year, decade, and century. We all click on them: they’re irresistible. I’m kind of over these “best of” lists. The premise that something so magnificently multivariate as… Continue reading

  • Top 10 Noteworthy 2019 Speculative Fiction Books Part 2

    A continuation of our favorite speculative fiction works this year! So far… The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz. Annalee Newitz just won a Hugo Award for the Our Opinions Are Correct podcast with their partner Charlie Jane Anders and is a writer of both science and science fiction. TFOAT is a fiercely feminist… Continue reading

  • Top 10 Noteworthy 2019 Speculative Fiction Books Part 1

    Even though it’s only October and there are still two more months left for publishing and reading in 2019 we are already assembling our “best lists”. Here are some of our favorite speculative fiction works this year (so far): The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders. This is a science… Continue reading

  • Thanks Obama: Summer Edition

    We have just a little over a month before we say good bye to summer and hello to fall, which gives you plenty of time to read some of former president Barack Obama’s summer reading favorites! Toni Morrison’s collected works, including Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, and Beloved – a longtime popular author even… Continue reading

  • Thanks Obama

    It’s that time of year again! Former President Barack Obama has released his list of favorite reads in 2018 and it’s gooooooooood. Becoming by Michelle Obama – Obviously his favorite! And a Peak Pick! An American Marriage by Tayari Jones American Prison by Shane Bauer Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Arthur Ashe: A Life by… Continue reading

  • My Favorite 2016 Science Fiction and Fantasy

    Every year I push myself to read a variety of fiction, new and old, and a mixture of science fiction and fantasy. Here are some of my favorite science fiction and fantasy novels published in 2016: Continue reading

  • Top Ten Audiobooks of 2013

    This has been a great year for audio fiction, with new readers and a wide variety of titles to sample. These are my favorites from 2013. Longbourn by Jo Baker Find out more about the Bennet household, from Pride and Prejudice, in this Downton Abbey-esque story of the servants downstairs.   Continue reading