Chanukah (or Hanukkah—however you opt to spell and pronounce it!) is almost here, which means the time to grab last-minute gifts for yourself or someone else is…right now. (Insert joke about Chanukah miracles, et cetera.) Thankfully, it’s a great time in YA for Jewish fiction that makes the perfect gift, and whether you’re handing over […]
Autumn is always a dauntingly fantasy-packed season, and it can be tough to make a book stand out from the pack. But when you center yours around the gory art of murderous falconry or magical blood and atomic bombs, no one’s forgetting about your book anytime soon. Today we’ve got two authors who are making […]
Welcome back, sophomores! We loved their first books, we’ve anxiously awaited their followups, and now they are magically almost here. While they’re dominated by contemporary (largely because this post is strictly for standalones; great in-series sophomore novels can be found as part of the upcoming sequels preview), they range from sweet summer romance to sweeping intergenerational, […]
There’s something about the rich worldbuilding of historical novels and fantasy that make the genres the perfect complement to each other. And both fantasy novels and historical novels have suffered from similar disingenuous reasoning around their lack of diversity: that the inclusion of, say, people of color or queer people isn’t historically accurate, and that […]
Every once in a while when I need a break from reading YA (sacrilege, I know), I turn to an adult novel for escapism. The adult New York Times bestseller list has been filled with great writing lately, from Celeste Ng’s quiet suburban drama in Little Fires Everywhere to A. J. Finn’s thriller The Woman in the Window. Once […]
