If you love books set in schools and stories with twisty plots and dark themes, then chances are the subgenre of dark academia is for you! This genre can be defined broadly, but generally speaking the books have an academic setting and feature characters exploring darker urges, navigating crimes or dark secrets, or exploring dark speculative elements. Here’s more about dark academia, and the appeal of these kinds of books. If that sounds like your jam, we’ve got 15 excellent dark academia books for you to marathon read!Continue ReadingThe Best Dark Academia Books
If you love books set in schools and stories with twisty plots and dark themes, then chances are the subgenre of dark academia is for you! This genre can be defined broadly, but generally speaking the books have an academic setting and feature characters exploring darker urges, navigating crimes or dark secrets, or exploring dark speculative elements. Here’s more about dark academia, and the appeal of these kinds of books. If that sounds like your jam, we’ve got 15 excellent dark academia books for you to marathon read!Continue Reading
There’s nothing quite so compelling as reading about other people’s lives and experiences–after all, sometimes truth is stranger (or at least more entertaining) than fiction. From stories about real life people to celebrity memoirs, there’s always something entertaining and fascinating in the best memoirs. If you love real stories about real people, then you’re in luck because 2020 is a great year for the genre. Here are 20 of the best new memoirs coming out this year!
Are you hosting the next book club discussion of The Immortalists? Never fear, for we’ve got a great overview of The Immortalists characters and story, a list of themes, The Immortalists book club questions, and some ideas for food and drink!
If funny female authors are your jam, then good news! We’ve got some hilarious female comedian books and memoirs for you! These memoirs vary in genre and style (some are more essay-based, some are more traditional memoirs) but all are laugh out loud hilarious and fun!
Do you like to be scared out of your wits when you read? While different readers might find different story elements scarier than others, we’ve compiled a list of some of the scariest books of all time, worthy of sticking in the freezer! From best selling horror novels to more subtly scary books such as true crime and speculative novels, hopefully you’ll find something to keep you up at night!