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ONCE IN A TIMELINE
Laia Grace Shirzan lives a perfect, happy life in beautiful New York City with a daily routine involving meditation and manifestations, makeup and skin care (whale semen for the faceful of multivitamins!), the most delicious lattes, Pilates (where she never sweats), and content creation for her moderately successful profile. Tonight there’s an important brand event where she hopes to secure a yearlong contract as an ambassador.
SERLING | Kirkus Reviews
Rod Serling’s name is inextricably linked to The Twilight Zone (1959-1964), the groundbreaking science-fiction show he created; accordingly, journalist Sepinwall, author of TV (The Book), titles many chapters of his biography after celebrated episodes that offer sharp insights into Serling’s life.
GRACE & JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED A MURDER
Life is finally coming together for Grace Anderson, who left her parents thousands of miles away in Florida to launch herself in Philadelphia. And launch she has, almost immediately stumbling into a position assisting artist Garrett Baros, who’s having a moment of his own—he’s recently been selected as a featured artist by the Institute of Contemporary Art.
THE CONFEDERACY MYTH
In much of this book, historian Williams delivers a generally conventional history of the Civil War, reciting battles, casualties, and political milestones: Fort Sumter, the Gettysburg Address, 700,000 Americans dead.
UNTOUCHABLE | Kirkus Reviews
Hannah Kabbah loves working in child care, but due to that time she destroyed a man’s car with a cricket bat after he hurt her sister, she has a criminal record, making it hard to find a desirable job in the small English town of Ravenswood. When her teenage crush, Nathaniel Davis, now a tattooed photographer and widower, moves back to town to care for his ailing mother, Hannah accepts a position as a live-in nanny for his two spirited young children.
WHAT MARCEL FOUND
Evoking the excitement of discovery in his illustrations, Litchfield illuminates events both above ground and below with sparkles and broad beams of light. Walking through the woods to get away from the increasingly troubling war news in 1940, young Marcel Ravidat finds some unusual holes—which, as he learns when he returns with three friends to explore, lead to a subterranean wonderland of caves covered in painted animal images. “Arch of a neck,” Pruitt writes in enticing, breathless prose. “Flash of an eye.” “Elk, bison, a Great Black Bull.
MMC thinks FMC is dead, but she comes back with amnesia
Does anyone know any books with this kind of plot? 😭 Basically, the MMC thinks the FMC died, but then he sees her again years later and she's like a completely different person. Maybe she used to be sweet and bubbly, but now she's cold, aloof, and distant towards him. He starts wondering if it's even really her or if she's just someone who looks exactly like the woman he used to love. What he doesn't know is that she actually has amnesia and doesn't remember him or their relationship at all.
Here’s What the Biggest and Most Interesting Book Clubs are Reading in October 2026
Here is what the biggest book clubs are reading in October, with picks from Roxane Gay, Reese Witherspoon, and Dua Lipa.
Dual POV with distinctive voices
I saw a post on here a few days ago about dual POV which isn’t genuine because it is so heavily weighted in favour of one character. My issue is different and founded in writing quality: are there any dual POV books where the voices are consistently well constructed and distinctive? Where the characters don’t just sound the same, but one swears more?
4 Perfect Queer Romance Graphic Novels
Swoon over these queer romance graphic novels, from a sapphic magical girl softball romance to a nonbinary take on Emma.
Reading Pathways: Where To Start Reading Daniel Kraus Books
Curious about where to start reading Daniel Kraus books? Here's a guide to diving into the books by the Pulitzer Prize winning author.
What does it mean to be well-read?
Anne is joined by Rebecca Schinsky and Jeff O’Neal of the Book Riot podcast Zero to Well-Read to discuss what each of them thinks about what it means to be well-read, and how their personal working definitions have evolved over the years.
8 Must-Read Literary Science Fiction Books
These literary science fiction books with stunning prose and complex characters will give you a new perspective on what it means to be human.
The Best Short Story of All Time
It won’t take you an entire afternoon to read one of the great short stories of our time. All you need is an hour and a little curiosity—and if that curiosity is even the slightest bit entomological, even better for you.
[Marginalia] Frith Chronicles by Shami Stovall
Hello bibliophiles This will be the Marginalia for Knightmare Arcanist by Shami Stovall What is a Marginalia post for? This post is a place for you to put your marginalia as we read. Scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, illuminations, or links to related - none discussion worthy - material. Anything of significance you happen across as we read. As such this is a spoiler abundant zone, but that doesn't mean spoiler tags can be foregone. MARGINALIA - How to post!!
Simple Questions: October 13, 2026
Welcome readers, Have you ever wanted to ask something but you didn't feel like it deserved its own post but it isn't covered by one of our other scheduled posts? Allow us to introduce you to our new Simple Questions thread! Twice a week, every Tuesday and Saturday, a new Simple Questions thread will be posted for you to ask anything you'd like. And please look for other questions in this thread that you could also answer! A reminder that this is not the thread to ask for book recommendations.
7 of the Best New Book Releases Out October 13, 2026
Some big names are dropping this week—from Bonnie Garmus to Stephen Graham Jones to Elizabeth Kostova, and more.
Apocalypse books with Religious imagery
One of my favorite books of all time is A Canticle For Leibowitz and even though I am not a religious person I still find the Religious imagery in the book to be really interesting. I dont mind the religion being depicted as I am eager to learn about more and see how they influence the story they are in. submitted by /u/GazIsStoney [link] [comments]
Can you recommend some somewhat recent middle grade or YA horror that is actually really scary?
I found the Fear Street books in the 90s really scary. Reading some of the ones thhat I missed last night, and I'm impressed, I still find them scary because I end fearing for these very likable characters lives. It's a very welcome break from a lot of the pg-13 movies I'vee watched where I feel nothing.
Generation Maybe by Camilla Cavendish review – what’s really behind the fertility gap?
An evidenced-based account of the difficult choices facing couples across the world – from America to Iran
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