The Tulip Poplars
The eighth novel from Silas House, The Tulip Poplars is a story of the dissonance when one’s experiences chafe against their inherited values, set in the beautiful Kentucky hill country at a dark point...
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In Partita, Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver tells the story of an Appalachian pianist and explores a question for the ages: What is and isn’t worth settling for?
View ArticleSilly delights or a spooky night
Choose your perfect Halloween adventure from these four festive reads, ranging from middle grade to young adult novels.
View Article16 frights and delights for Halloween
This year’s best Halloween offerings fall (with two witchy exceptions) into two distinct camps.
View Article2 tales of witches
Alice Hoffman's historical fantasy and K.S. Shay's intriguing debut are both set in that most magical of regions: New England.
View Article7 spooky, sexy paranormal romances
We've got a werewolf and a demon hunter, of course, but also a Grim Reaper, a disembodied spirit and a very hot arborist of a haunted cemetery. Happy Halloween to you!
View Article7 suspenseful and scary reads for Halloween
A vampire serial killer, a haunted Cold War submarine and one very unsettling dog will be haunting our dreams (nightmares?) this season.
View ArticleWhat Happens at Nightfall
Lauren Willig expertly blends romance, mystery and history in this spooky love story centered on Brooklyn’s legendary Green-Wood Cemetery.
View ArticleSolace House
Will Maclean’s Solace House is as unnerving as anything dreamed up by Stephen King.
View ArticleQuaint Folk
Quaint Folk must be experienced for oneself, in all of its folklorist, fever-dream glory.
View ArticleOff the Reservation
Stephen Graham Jones’ surprise sequel to The Only Good Indians is the author at his impish, unpredictable best.
View ArticleGet ready to meet your new favorite detective—a Japanese calico cat named Holmes
Jiro Akagawa’s bestselling mystery series has finally been translated into English, plus a brilliant courtroom drama and one of the best gangster novels ever.
View ArticleThe Vanished Sister
In her ninth Lady Sherlock mystery, Sherry Thomas writes as eloquently about relationships and class as she does crime.
View ArticlePly
Complex, compassionate and very punk, Hernan Diaz’s Ply is an extraordinary science fiction novel, an optimistic story set in a very cynical future.
View ArticleBuilding 903
Lois Lowry’s Building 903 is a celebration of family, human connections and the enduring power of imagination and storytelling by one of the most thought-provoking authors of our time.
View ArticleThe True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
Deesha Philyaw has created a highly memorable character in Scharisse Freeman, a woman who finds that her middle-aged happy ending is not at all what she once thought it would be.
View ArticleThe Radiance
Ayad Akhtar’s metafictional third novel, The Radiance, is a strangely enlightening campus tale combining the psychological fallout from an injury with the perils of writing autofiction.
View ArticleDodge City
In Dodge City, Patrick deWitt admirably captures the conflicted mind of a young man from a dysfunctional family living in an era of unsettling change.
View Article‘The Vanishing Family’ investigates a shattering form of dementia that...
Robert Kolker tracks a family’s cascading history of heartbreak as they uncover the disease that’s transforming them, one at a time.
View ArticleMin Jin Lee’s ‘American Hagwon’: A study in studying
To write the third novel in her quartet about the Korean diaspora, the Pachinko author immersed herself in the world of after-school tutoring.
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