2016 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
Today, the Man Booker Prize announced the six books that have been narrowed down to form the shortlist for their...
Today, the Man Booker Prize announced the six books that have been narrowed down to form the shortlist for their...
My daughter was looking over the syllabus from a college English class that she had just started, and she was...
Steeplejack A. J. Hartley Tor Teen Release Date: June 14, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7653-8342-6 Multiculturalism is a tricky subject to capture,...
The Race Nina Allen Titan Books Release Date: July 19, 2016 ISBN 978-1-785650-36-9 Originally published in 2014 by NewCon Press...
Over the last few years I've been writing the "Literary Birthday" blurbs that appear Monday through Friday on the LitStack...
The Last Mortal Bond Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, Book 3 Brian Staveley Tor Books Release Date: March 15, 2016...
Admiral Sean Danker Roc Books Release Date: May 3, 2016 ISBN 978-0-451-47579-4 You've probably heard it/seen it/read it before, especially...
Icon Genevieve Valentine Saga Press Release Date: June 28, 2016 ISBN 978-1-4814-2515-5 ~ * ~ Welcome to diplomacy. Adapt or...
Mechanical Failure Joseph Zieja Saga Press Release Date: June 14, 2016 ISBN 978-1-4814-5927-3 My father-in-law loved to watch reruns of...
"A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships." - Jorge Luis Borges...
Shadowshaper Daniel José Older Arthur A. Levine Books Release Date: June 30, 2015 ISBN 978-0-545-59161-4 I am not a teenager...
Thirty-five inches of rain in four days. That's how much rain has fallen in Louisiana in this last "episode." The...
Well, the honest answer to "what Michael Phelps and I have in common" is, practically nothing. He's a young, strong,...
Company Town Madeline Ashby Tor Books Release Date: May 17, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7653-8290-0 Go Jung-hwa is my new favorite hero....
On summer nights - well, on many nights, really - I end the day out on my front porch, in...
The God Wave Patrick Hemstreet Harper Voyager Release Date: May 17, 2016 ISBN 978-0-06-241950-7 The tale starts simply: neuroscientist Chuck...
Sometimes when I read, it's like a lovely summer's day when the sun is shining but it's not too hot,...
Dang, it's hot. Too hot. I know you folks in Southern climates may well be guffawing at us Northerners now,...
Time Salvager Wesley Chu Tor Book Release Date: July 7, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-7718-0 (NOTE: Why I didn't post this review...
The Summer Dragon - First Book of the Evertide Todd Lockwood DAW Books Release Date: May 3, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7564-0833-6...
Boy Erased Garrard Conley Riverhead Books Release Date: May 10, 2016 ISBN 978-1-59463-301-0 It was sheer coincidence that had me...
(Due to this nasty thing known as a "deadline", this Gimbling in the Wabe is a repeat of one first...
LaRose Louise Erdrich Harper Release Date: May 10, 2016 ISBN 978-0-06-227702-2 Last year, Louise Erdrich was awarded the Library of...
The Dinosaur Knights Victor Milán Tor Books Release Date: July 5, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7653-3297-4 If the battle of Pelennor Fields...
Today, I plugged new headphones into my iPod and entered nirvana. That may seem somewhat dramatic, but trust me, it's...
The Long Cosmos Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter HarperCollins Release Date: June 14, 2016 ISBN 978-0-06-229737-2 I will admit a...
Sweetbitter Stephanie Danler Alfred A. Knopf Release Date: May 24, 2016 ISBN 978-11-0187-594-0 Sweetbitter, the debut novel from newcomer Stephanie...
Every Heart a Doorway Seanan McGuire Tor.com Release Date: April 5, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7653-8550-5 I'm just going to come out...
Late last Sunday night, in the wake of the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, I held my...
Last week, I was trolling around on the internet (as I am wont to do), and I came across an...
Ophelia Lisa Klein Bloomsbury USA Childrens Release Date: December 26, 2007 ISBN 978-1-58234-801-8 Earlier this month, word broke on the...
United States of Japan Peter Tieryas Angry Robot Release Date: March 1, 2016 ISBN 978-0-85766-533-1 Military occupations are never a...
I hate June bugs. Yes, I realize "hate" is a powerful, laden word. I realize that it should not be...
Envy of Angels Matt Wallace Tor.com Release Date: October 20, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-8528-4 What a strange, perverse, hilarious and utterly...
Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? Paul Cornell Pan Books Release Date: May 19, 2016 ISBN 978-1-4472-7326-4 London detectives James Quill, Tony...
Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. ~William Shakespeare Although it can certainly be argued to...
The Spider's War Daniel Abraham Orbit Books Release Date: March 8, 2016 ISBN 978-0-316-20405-7 In 2011, Orbit published The Dragon's...
Thursday 1:17 pm Michael Landweber Coffeetown Press Release Date: May 1, 2016 ISBN 978-1-60381-357-0 Every once in a while a...
This is my favorite time of year. Baseball season. Early spring, and it's still cool out. We've yet to hit...
The Brotherhood of the Wheel R. S. Belcher Tor Books Release Date: March 1, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7653-8028-9 I grew up...
Fellside M. R. Carey Orbit Release Date: April 5, 2016 ISBN 978-0-316-30028-5 Just what is Fellside, the newest novel from...
At this year's StokerCon convention, in the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas, the Horror Writers Association - the premier...
Morning Star Pierce Brown Del Rey Release Date: February 9, 2016 ISBN 978-0-345-53984-7 If there really is a "livin' the...
Borderline Mishell Baker Saga Press Release Date: March 1, 2016 ISBN 978-1-4814-5306-6 How to write a kick ass novel: 1)...
In the Labyrinth of Drakes: A Memoir by Lady TrentBook 4 of "A Natural History of Dragons" seriesMarie BrennanTor BooksRelease...
Sorcerer to the Crown Zen Cho Ace Books Release Date: September 1, 2015 ISBN 978-0-425-28337-0 Magic and mayhem in proper...
Arkwright Allen Steele Tor Books Release Date: March 1, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7653-8215-3 Allen Steele is a prolific science fiction author...
I suppose it could be portrayed as being somewhat spurious - a pale, doughy woman on the far side of...
Slow River Nicola Griffith Ballantine Books Reissue date: July 29, 2003 (released 1995) ISBN 978-0-345-39537-5 In 2014, I read a...
City of Blades Book Two of The Divine Cities Series Robert Jackson Bennett Broadway Books Release Date: January 26, 2016...