Four of the Best Mystery Books to Read Right Now
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4 of the Best Mystery Books to Read Right Now
Welcome to another round of news for mystery fans! As usual, there’s plenty of adaptation news. There’s also a new memoir, an actress-written thriller, and Sherlock keeps getting reimagined in new and interesting ways.
The 2025 Women’s Prize Shortlist for Nonfiction
The Women’s Prize is in its second year of having a nonfiction prize. For this year’s shortlist, the prize’s website states, “The Six books on the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist are united by the power of hope and the necessity of resistance to initiate change.”
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Once Upon a Time There Was a Story About Dreams
That dive into the darker side of human nature is exactly what makes The Last Tale of the Flower Bride a gothic dream. One that envelops you and somehow allows you to escape the increasingly strange world we live in. While at the same time reminding you that dreams are not enough to get away from some of the things that plague us.
Historical Fiction about the Vietnam War, 50 Years Later
What’s missing from most book lists I found about the Vietnam War are books by Vietnamese authors, looking at the conflict through the eyes of characters who lived through and inherited the trauma of violence and political upheaval in their home country. These books, written by authors from Vietnam and Vietnamese diasporas across the globe, contain nuanced explorations of the war, its end, and its wide-reaching impacts on Vietnamese history and culture.
New YA Book Releases This Week, April 9, 2025
If you’re looking for a week where you can start to catch up with your TBR because the new releases aren’t as plentiful, you’ve found one. That’s not to say there aren’t new books, but this isn’t going to be as busy as last week nor as busy as some upcoming weeks.
6 Queer YA Books About Nerdy Hobbies
Especially when you’re coming of age as a queer person, it’s important to find ourselves reflected in art. And a lot of times, that art doesn’t exist unless we create it. Thus, we turn to the nerdy hobbies that may or may not have defined our adolescence, such as writing, filmmaking, sewing, or fandom culture, to find a part of ourselves represented there. This is why it’s so important to have queer YA books about nerdy hobbies out in the world, so that younger generations may have ready access to them. Behold six such titles I have compiled.
The Best New Poetry Collections of 2025 (So Far) to Add to Your TBR
These poetry collections run the gamut from deeply personal to powerfully political. Let’s face it, those two are often the same anyway, particularly when it comes to poetry. Most exciting to me are how many of these best new poetry collections of 2025 so far are fresh voices to the poetic scene.
