You’ll get recommendations for the best books to discuss in your book clubs. From buzzy new releases to brilliant throwbacks, the books highlighted in this newsletter will drive your book club discussions. We’ll also share some book club-friendly recipes and interesting bookish updates from all over. In other words, we’ll keep you well-met, well-read, and well-fed.
Do you feel confident in your knowledge of civics or U.S. government? If not, it might be because civics education in America has been deeply underfunded for decades. That, plus book censorship news this week.
This May brings us a new batch of horror reads, from haunted house stories to sapphic medieval horror and tales of alien invasion.
The best new romance books out in May 2025 include plenty of contemporaries, plus historicals, fantasies, and a superhero or two.
From cards to jewelry to decor and more, these gifts perfect for any bookish grad, from English majors to librarians.
Find a comfy chair, extinguish your dragons, and read these twelve excellent new sci-fi and fantasy books out in May 2025!
These historical fiction books published before 2000 feature stories set everywhere, from ancient Athens to 1930s India.
It's probably inaccurate to say that the U.S. has forgotten the lessons of Kent State. It seems more likely it never learned them at all.
Now we’re seeing cozy science fiction and fantasy, and even cozy horror. So what exactly does "cozy" mean?
