The Underground Railroad

Eight Books about New Beginnings for 2017
Sometimes even an imaginary blank slate can be just what we need, and the end of 2016 is a perfect example of this. After a year that seemed endless and harsh, January 1 feels like the perfect time for a new beginning. Here are eight books about starting anew that are perfect for ringing in… Read More »
Tags: A Gentleman in Moscow, Americanah, Amor Towles, Behold the Dreamers, Books, Cheryl Strayed, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colson Whitehead, come away with me, Imbolo Mbue, karma brown, Matt Haig, Phaedra Patrick, reading, Reasons to Stay Alive, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, The Underground Railroad, Wild

Book-to-Movie Adaptations that Need to Happen
The end of one year has us looking ahead to movies that will be coming out in the next. While there are so many great films that have been adapted from books, there are still so many books that we would love to see on screen. Here are ten books that would make amazing movies… Read More »
Tags: A Discovery of Witches, Americanah, beautiful ruins, Bernadette, Books, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colson Whitehead, Deborah Harkness, Don't You Cry, Eleanor & Park, Emily St. John Mendel, Jess Walter, maria semple, Mary Kubica, movies, Phaedra Patrick, rainbow rowell, reading, Ruth Ware, station eleven, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, The Underground Railroad, The Woman in Cabin 10, Where’d You Go

Breakdown of 2016’s Award-Winning Novels
In case you missed it, here’s a highlight reel of this year’s award-winning fiction: National Book Award The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead “As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the… Read More »
Tags: Award Winners, Books, Colson Whitehead, Delicious Foods, James Hannaham, Man Booker Prize, National Book Awards, Paul Beatty, PEN/Falkner Award, Pulitzer Prize, The Sellout, The Sympathizer, The Underground Railroad, Viet Thanh Nguyen

10 of the Best Book Covers of 2016
A book cover is a calling card, a promise and a wrapper you don’t ever want to tear off. At best, like the ten covers presented here, they are evocative, original and beautiful, offering a tantalizing glimpse of what to expect inside, matching their story in tone, mood and style. Many of these novels are… Read More »
Tags: All the Birds in the Sky, ark Matter, Blake Crouch, Book Design, Books, Charlie Jane Anders, Colson Whitehead, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, Design, Emma Donoghue, Homegoing, Jennifer Close, maria semple, Nicola Yoon, Sarah Maria Griffin, Spare and Found Parts, The Hopefuls, The Nest, The Sun Is Also a Star, The Underground Railroad, The Wonder, Today Will Be Different, Yaa Gyasi