Fantasy and Sci-Fi readers have had a banner year of exciting book releases, and we’ve found ourselves curled up on more than one evening, gleefully diving into tales of new fantastical worlds filled with mayhem and mesmerizing characters. The best sci-fi books have us reading long into the night hungrily devouring each chapter of boundless […]
In 2011, The Near Witch appeared in bookstores—the debut novel by a young author named Victoria Schwab. Though it received some enthusiastic early reviews—and found devoted fans—it was quite unlike the books that were hitting the YA bestseller list at the time, and didn’t perform strongly enough to warrant the publication of a sequel. Within […]
At the end of each month, we share lists of B&N’s current bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the books everyone is talking about—and buying. Hardcovers What books did you buy in November?
It’s the end of another year and the perfect time to look back at the moments that defined 2018. For readers, of course, that means choosing the books that defined the preceding 12 months. It was a great year for science fiction and fantasy readers, certainly—from epics spanning centuries of invented lore, to chronicles of […]
At the end of each month, we share lists of B&N’s current bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the books everyone is talking about—and buying. Hardcovers What books did you buy in September?