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Publishers Weekly, USA Today, the NYT, Amazon, and Indie Bestsellers all have their own bestseller lists. Here are the combined results.

If you love suspenseful family tales that will mess with your mind, these twisted domestic thriller books will keep you up all night.

• What book is currently on your nightstand?
• Who is the author?
• What genre?
• How do you like it?
• Would you recommend it to others?

SFF provides a way of re-envisioning disability, challenging ableism head-on and creating new stories. Here are some to get you started.

Happy Disability Pride month!

In Spain, 68.4% of the population over the age of 14 reads books. Most of these people read for pleasure in their spare time, choosing the genres that interest them most according to their personal tastes and preferences.

I’m frustrated with iBooks/Books as they bundle a bunch of cloud and purchases together and it’s impossible to organize them.

Used Marvin 3 for years but that’s not available anymore.

Anyone got some good suggestions?

Calling horror lit fans! The Haunted Forest Tour should be on your radar.

If you’re a fan of amusement themed horror stories, then I would highly recommend you check out this book by James A. Moore. The premise—a group of tourists get stranded in a forest full of creepers, creatures, and things that go bump in the night. I found the book a fun listen from start to finish, and the characters were (imo) incredibly realistic in their reactions and behaviors. Would love to hear from others who have read it!

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Are there any books that you've read, and like, but when you step back and think about the book you're surprised you like it?

Lately I've read a few books by Charles Willeford (The Shark-Infested Custard, Miami Blues, and New Hope for the Dead). In all of the books, essentially every character is alternately: mean, gross, vile, an actual murderer, an actual sociopath, or utterly unable to see other people as people.

Maybe that's all to be expected because they're very dark comedies (90%+ cacao), but I have still ended up surprised after finishing each book that I enjoyed it and would read another.

I'm even unsure about recommending them to friends, at least not without giving a caveat up front.

What about you all?

Publishers Weekly, USA Today, the NYT, Amazon, and Indie Bestsellers all have their own bestseller lists. Here are the combined results.

Just finished reading this - it's an amazing story about an unsuccessful author who plagarises her dead friend's work and how things spiral out of control from there...

It's an excellent satire on the publishing industry and social media. The protagonist isn't an unreliable narrator exactly but she's absolutely persuading herself that what she's doing isn't outright plagarism and it's up to us how much we believe her on that... She's a strongly drawn character either way.

The literary envy aspect of the story reminded me of The Information by Martin Amis. I'd definitely recommend Yellowface anyway. Has anyone else read it?

These children's biography books introduce young readers to important figures and moments in history, from mathematicians to activists.

A few weeks ago, I was very surprised to receive an email that my story, “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold,” had been nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novelette. As is customary, the awards team asked if I wished to accept the nomination or withdraw it from consideration. Unfortunately, I’ve decided to

• What book is currently on your nightstand?
• Who is the author?
• What genre?
• How do you like it?
• Would you recommend it to others?

The most banned books in America are not the newest books on the shelves. That, plus this week's book censorship news.

A book review blog reviewing graphic novels, mysteries and historical fiction.

Drink your potions, gather your familiars, and ready your spacecrafts to blast off with these new sci-fi and fantasy books out in July 2023!

I've burned through like every audio drama I can think of. Trying Audible. I like cyberpunk and sci-fi like Neal Stephenson. Super dark and gritty fantasy like the Netflix show Castlevania or the audio drama Aethuran: Dark Saga.

I'm open to any recommendations. Thank you.

Even though Franz Kafka had been dead since 1924, his writing would provide Cold War-era writers and intellectuals in the United States with a literary vocabulary for imagining life behind the Iron…

Get ready to heighten the frights in your summer days with these 8 exciting new horror books to read in July 2023!

Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays published in 1973 by German-born British economist E. F. Schumacher. The title "Small Is Beautiful" came from a principle espoused by Schumacher's teacher Leopold Kohr, advancing small, appropriate technologies, policies, and polities as a superior alternative to the mainstream ethos of "bigger is better".

Publishers Weekly, USA Today, the NYT, Amazon, and Indie Bestsellers all have their own bestseller lists. Here are the combined results.

Like Fracassi’s previous novel, Gothic, Boys in the Valley involves devil-worship and demonic possession. The publisher’s pithy tagline describes Boys in the Valley as “The Exorcist meets Lord of the Flies, by way of Midnight Mass.” Similarities to The Exorcism are obvious, and both the absence of effective adult supervision and the pervasive child-on-child brutality certainly bring to mind Lord of the Flies. But despite being—at its heart—a religious horror novel, I would also recommend it to fans of John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982).

From George R. R. Martin’s new Wild Cards anthology to Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's dystopian take on America, there is a wealth of exciting science fiction out this month. Culture editor Alison Flood shares the novels she is most anticipating

Think of this thread as a mid year review:

How many have you read and are you on track?

Favorite reads of the year so far?

Least favorite reads of the year?

Any new releases you are looking forward to?

How do you all track your books?

I generally use a Google Spreadsheet, with Title, Author, Date Started, Date Finished, Rating, Review, and Source (such as physical/own, or Libby-Audiobook, etc).

Then I put the info into Goodreads at some point, but honestly I'm considering dropping GR, and either just doing the spreadsheet, or trying a new website.

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