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Announcing the Finalists for Barnes & Noble’s Book of the Year
What is the book that defined 2019? This year, for the first time, Barnes & Noble has turned to its…
7 YAs to Read After Ruta Sepetys’ The Fountains of Silence
November’s YA book club read, The Fountains of Silence, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruta Sepetys, is set in 1950s…
10 YAs to Read After You’ve Devoured Shelby Mahurin’s Serpent & Dove
September’s YA book club read, Serpent & Dove, was a cat-and-mouse game between a feisty witch named Louise le Blanc and Reid…
7 Unlikely Science Fictional Uprisings
Frodo is a suicide bomber. That may not be what Tolkien had in mind when he wrote The Lord of…
An Epic Journey to the Shelves: Evan Winter & James Islington on the Business of Publishing, Finding Your Readers, and the Book Two Problem
Two of our favorite epic fantasy series of the last few years—one of them, James Islington’s Licanius trilogy, about to…
10 Page-Turning Thrillers to Bring a Chill to Your Summer
There’s nothing quite like a page-turning thriller to bring a few chills to your summer reading list. From salacious murders…
The Best Books of 2019… So Far
The year isn’t over, but so many fantastic new books have already been published, that we would feel amiss if…
LEGO® Harry Potter™ Sets Are Coming!
Build the magic & relive the adventure! Bring Harry Potter moments to life with these new LEGO® sets, exclusively at…
100 Books of Summer
Steamy thrillers, delirious fantasies, peeks behind closed doors, classics you’ve been meaning to get to, and new releases everyone will…
6 Books Featuring Killer Blade Fights
Today we are joined by guest author Anna Kashina—whose latest book, Shadowblade, is out now from Angry Robot—as she discusses…
Castle of Lies Author Kiersi Burkhart on the Intersection of Fantasy and Fan Fiction
In Kiersi Burkhart’s queer, inclusive fantasy novel, Castle of Lies, power-hungry Thelia plans to stake her claim by marrying Bayled, heir to the…
10 Books to Inspire Graduates
Graduation is thrilling—and sometimes scary. Fortunately for today’s graduates, some very smart people have written down their thoughts on how to…
The Cerulean Author Amy Ewing and And She Was Author Jess Verdi Talk Shop
In Amy Ewing’s wildly original fantasy novel The Cerulean, out today, Sera lives among the Cerulean people in the City Above…
Rachel Roy and Ava Dash Discuss Their YA Debut, 96 Words for Love
In 96 Words for Love, out today, mother-daughter writing team Rachel Roy and Ava Dash pair up to deliver a modern…
Three Real Historical Dynastic Struggles Ripe for Fantasy Adaptation
Tasha Suri knows from adapting history into fantasy: her debut novel Empire of Sand—one of our favorite books of 2018—is…
Congratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo and The Poet X, Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
“Thank you so much to the readers who time and again remind me why I took this leap, why it…