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One of the best things about love quotes from books is that writers so well articulate the experience of being in love that you start to...

Sponsored by I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir by Reema Zaman, from Amberjack Publishing. To Speak is a Revolution. I Am Yours tells of Reema’s unwavering...

When people discuss Tolkien and race, ol’ J.R.R. generally doesn’t come out looking so hot, and rightly so. His descriptions of the Orcs are especially contentious;...

There are a lot of children’s books about divorce. Some focus on the divorce itself, while others cushion the divorce plot inside an adventure or sports...

This list of YA fantasy books about monsters and magic is sponsored by Amazon Publishing, publisher of Smoke and Summons by Charlie N. Holmberg. Her master turned her...

Sponsored by The Lost Man by Jane Harper For two decades I’d believed on some level that when I stopped being a teen Pike fan, he’d...

This giveaway is sponsored by An American Marriage by Tayari Jones—now in paperback—from Algonquin Books. Tayari Jones on her New York Times bestseller, An American Marriage: This...

Swords and Spaceships is our biweekly newsletter about all things sci-fi and fantasy literature, and we’re giving away a $100 gift card to Amazon to one...

For today’s fiction excerpt, we present a chapter from Elizabeth McCracken’s new novel Bowlaway, out tomorrow from Ecco. The title was featured in our Great First-Half...

The problems had started in the factory where you worked. I described it in my first novel, The End of Eddy: one afternoon we got a...