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Book RecsAuthor Picks
Five Fascinating Noms de Plume
Carmela Ciuraru
The author of Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms gives us insight into some literary aliases.
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Book RecsJunior Edition
Junior Edition #23
Celia McGee
Featuring books by Ross Collins, Augusta Scattergood, Tor Seidler, and Nicole Helget!
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Book RecsAuthor Picks
Surreal and Mythical
Alan Lightman
The author of Einstein’s Dreams recommends five disorienting and dreamlike novels to make your head spin.
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
On Samuel Beckett
Rick Moody
In freshman year of college, I was first exposed to Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy. For a guy who had mainly been reading science...
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Book RecsJunior Edition
Junior Edition #22
Celia McGee
Featuring books by Glenda Millard, Chris Grabenstein, Renee Watson, and Kazuo Ishiguro!
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
On Thomas Wolfe
Philip Roth
In 1949, when I was sixteen, I stumbled on Thomas Wolfe, who died at thirty-eight in 1938, and who made numerous adolescents aside from me devotees...
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Book RecsJunior Edition
Junior Edition #21
Celia McGee
Featuring books by Benjamin Chaud, Greg Trine, Jordan Stratford, and Jennifer Niven!
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
On Toni Morrison
Martha Southgate
I was in college and had an unexpected lull between things I had, had, had to read. Though I’d always been a voracious reader, I did very little...
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Book Recs
Essential Halloween Reading
For your seasonal reading pleasure, we suggest 13 works that embrace the supernatural.
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Book Recs
Reading The World
These six books in translation are our picks for a literary trip around the world; from China to Egypt to The Netherlands, and more!