Looking for a new read featuring a strong and inspiring female protagonist? From contemporary women’s fiction to sci-fi and fantasy, these six titles will satisfy your desire for a new heroine, who compels with her intelligence, perseverance, vulnerability and grace—though perhaps not always at once. Of course, that just makes these wonder women even more… Read More »

Fans of the fantasy genre know that world-building, time-hopping and regime overthrowing takes time so are usually lucky enough to have their favorite stories play out not just over the course of a book but over the course of a series. While this means sometimes dealing with a nail-biting cliffhanger at the end of a… Read More »

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES? Private Kaylin Neya thought her home couldn’t possibly get more crowded. But when one of her housemates, Annarion, decides to undertake the Barrani Test of Name, his friends refuse to let him face his task alone—and Kaylin’s sentient home, Helen, is the only structure capable of shielding the… Read More »

I came to reading early, and I loved it. I was voracious. Books were my refuge; they made me laugh, moved me to tears, made me think. Or, you know, made me throw them across the room in outrage. All of my reactions to reading were both personal and larger than life—and that hasn’t changed… Read More »