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For readers who finished Den of Vipers and immediately needed something to fill the void it left. There is a particular kind of fiction that the literary establishment doesn’t quite know what to do with, and Den of Vipers is one of its clearest examples. K.A. Knight’s novel operates on instinct rather than polish: raw, … Read more

There is a particular kind of YA novel that does something unusual: it uses physical confinement as a vehicle to ask genuinely large questions. What is a life fully lived? What do you owe the people who love you, and what do you owe yourself? Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon is that kind of book, … Read more

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a 2005 memoir published by Scribner, 288 pages. It documents Walls’ nomadic, poverty-marked childhood under a charismatic alcoholic father and a self-absorbed artist mother who rejected the conventions of domestic life. The book is structured in five parts, tracing the family’s journey across the American Southwest before settling … Read more

There is a specific kind of reader who does not sleep well after finishing a Sarah J. Maas book. Not because the book was bad. Because it was too good, and the world feels a little thin afterward, like something essential has been drained out of ordinary life. If you have been standing in that … Read more

Dork Diaries is a 16-book illustrated diary series written by Rachel Renée Russell and published by Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing. It follows 14-year-old Nikki Maxwell through the social wars of Westchester Country Day middle school. Since its launch, the series has spent 331 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list for Children’s … Read more