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Another Tale of Southern Homecomings for Impatient Harper Lee Fans

Readers who can’t wait to get their hands on Harper Lee’s “new” book Go Set a Watchman can’t be expected to go bookless until July. Whet their appetites for tales of a southern daughter’s return by...

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Waiting for Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman”? Try These Read-alikes for “To...

Sadly, there has been a backlash of sorts to the stunning announcement that a new Harper Lee novel, Go Set a Watchman, written before To Kill a Mockingbird but set later and subsequently lost, will be...

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Give It Up: Books for the Abstemious

From the sobering to the silly, your stacks are filled with books to scare straight any readers who need a little extra incentive to stay on the straight and narrow this Lenten season. Beautiful Boy: A...

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Do Not Disturb: Books with Bellhops

First Wes Anderson’s gorgeous film The Grand Budapest Hotel wins four academy awards. Now The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is climbing its way up the box office charts. Seems that hotels are the...

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A Big-Top 10: High-Flying Circus Books for Kids

I’m not exactly sure when my fascination with the circus started. I never went as a child; I was more concerned with getting on Broadway than running away with Ringling. Still, over the past several...

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Alternate-History Books for Fans of The Man in the High Castle

The alternate-history TV series The Man in the High Castle, loosely based on the 1962 Philip K. Dick novel of the same name, has become Amazon’s most-watched original series. The premise here is that...

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Hot for Teacher: 41 Reasons to Look Forward to Going Back to School

Rejoice! The academic year is on the horizon, and there are many chances for romance when school is in session. There’s always that cute new guy in your English class or the hottie you might meet cute...

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Eight Space Operas Written by Women

This month’s SF/fantasy and horror-centric Booklist features a Core Collection of space operas—none of them written by women. Not to fear! There are enough awesome, women-penned space operas to send...

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Ten Books for Readers Who Truly, Madly Love Liane Moriarity

Fiction fans just can’t get enough of Liane Moriarty’s addictive domestic dramas. In her latest, Truly, Madly, Guilty, three families’ lives are changed forever by one moment of carelessness. Recommend...

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For Fans of TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN, 20 Narratives about Mental Health

John Green’s latest unputdownable YA novel, Turtles All the Way Down, tackles the tough topic of anxiety disorders, specifically Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. As Michael Cart writes in his starred...

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