Happy 2016, book nerds! Now that you’ve had some time to recover from all those champagne wishes and caviar dreams, it’s time to get down to business: planning your book club’s 2016 picks. Selecting each month’s book requires walking a fine line between art and science, pre-planning and sheer luck. What will get people talking? How do I […]
There’s something extra thrilling about a debut novel, which allows us to access the contents of a brand-new author’s brain, and all the magic therein, for the very first time. The 15 brave, strange, magical, funny, heartrending, lifesaving, eye-opening books below are all from new authors who’ve instantly made it onto my must-buy list. Look for more debut […]
There are so many paths to publishing books, and even within those paths, there are others. One that so often yields excellent books that don’t get nearly the publicity they deserve is that of traditionally publishing through an independent publisher—one that isn’t affiliated with a larger corporation and therefore doesn’t have quite the same financial […]
Emily Henry’s debut novel, The Love that Split the World, is a glorious oddball, a genre-spanning story that deals in interdimensional travel, the world-saving power of storytelling, and true love. Natalie Cleary, the adopted daughter of a loving family in small-town Kentucky, has always suffered from strange late-night visitations, most frequently from a benevolent storyteller she […]
Samantha Mabry topped TBR lists last year with her stunning debut A Fierce and Subtle Poison, a moody, atmospheric work of fabulist fiction that made her stand out on YA bookshelves as a voice to be reckoned with. And expect no sophomore slump from this one. Her second standalone, All the Wind in the World, is a […]