Listicles

What Books Are These American Girl Dolls Recommending?

Looking for someone to buddy read with? Consider turning to the OG girlhood companions — the ones who came with bookish recs of their own. Sure, those books could be filled with harrowing tales of history! But that's exactly what made them all the more un-put-downable. And just maybe, they…

Cameron KimballJune 27, 2025

Listicles

10 Books with Completely Unique Magic Systems

Nothing gets me more excited to read (or to write) than a unique, thought-provoking magic system. Magic is the granule that started the fantasy genre, in my opinion, and it’s the reason I picked up my first speculative novel — to be able to experience something new and different; something…

Charlie N. HolmbergJune 27, 2025

Fiction Listicles

Cool Off with These Ice-Cold Fantasy Reads

Here in the Northeast, it’s the season for wind chills, snow days and scraping frost off your car in the morning. The bite of winter is in the air, which makes it all the more enticing to curl up next to the fire with a hot beverage and a good…

Cameron KimballDecember 11, 2024

Listicles

5 Books About Family Secrets

Compelling books that explore family secrets resonate with readers by weaving together mystery, drama and emotion. These stories captivate us by peeling back the layers of seemingly ordinary lives to reveal events and experiences that sometimes shape families across generations. The suspense of unearthing long-buried secrets keeps us turning pages,…

RaeAnne ThayneJune 6, 2025

Listicles

Annabelle Escaped and These Haunted Items Want Out Too!

What do you do when one of the most dangerous dolls in paranormal history escapes her heavily protected glass case and hits the road? Nothing. You stay on your couch, grab popcorn and watch the chaos unfold from a safe distance. That doll? Annabelle. Said to be demonically possessed and…

Monique SnymanMay 29, 2025

Listicles

10 AAPI Authors Navigate Identity And Relationships Through Fiction

Every May, AAPI Heritage Month invites us to honor the voices and stories of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities — but this celebration extends beyond history and heritage. It's also a time to amplify contemporary narratives that explore the complexities of identity, culture and connection. This carefully curated list…

Kendall FarrisMay 24, 2025

Listicles Young Adult

7 YA Fantasy Novels That Invent Captivating New Creatures

Sometimes you really just need to get out of your own life by getting into a book. A 600-page Russian drama? Not it. A thought-provoking nonfiction book that scares you into believing society truly is doomed? Not it. A cheery positivity book about gratitude? Overcompensating. What’s a reader to do?…

Judy MorenoJanuary 25, 2022

Listicles Romance

Treat Yourself to These 10 Book & Wine Pairings

During the pandemic, many people picked up a new hobby or skill while hunkering down at home. Me? Well, with the guidance of the Vivino app and thanks to my local grocery store’s BOGO wine deals, I became quite skilled at sampling wine. Mostly Cabernet Sauvignons, Red Blends, and Pinot…

Priscilla OliverasFebruary 17, 2022

Fiction Listicles

5 Unconventional Families Searching for Their Place the Universe

To say families come in all shapes and sizes feels a bit cliché, even if it is true. Of course, if some of said family members happen to be aliens … well, I suppose that old cliché takes on new meaning, doesn’t it? Reptilian scales, wings, horns and many, many…

Chelsea CicconeMarch 8, 2022

Fiction Listicles

It’s Your Lucky Day! Discover 7 Fantasy Novels Inspired by Irish Legend

Observed over the past 1,000 years, St. Patrick’s Day has surpassed its origins as the feast day of Ireland’s patron saint to become a celebration of the Emerald Isle itself. And the festivities aren’t isolated to Ireland — far from it! St. Patrick’s Day hoopla can be found throughout the…

Cameron KimballMarch 17, 2022

Fiction Listicles Thrillers

What Lurks Beyond: 6 Entrancing and Horrific Tales of Otherworldly Foes

I often think about this one episode of the 1998 TV series Charmed, “Once Upon a Time” (2000), in which the Halliwell sisters must protect a young girl who is being stalked by dark, mythical creatures that lurk in the “in-betweens,” points of time and space at which two worlds…

Chelsea CicconeMarch 22, 2022

Audiobooks Listicles Miscellany

10 March Audiobook Favorites Blossoming in Your Earbuds

Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors select the best new audiobooks just for BookTrib’s readers. This month, listeners will follow a strange map to hidden secrets, mend broken hearts with ridiculous schemes, find themselves captivated by larger-than-life tales of failure and triumph and more. So, grab your earbuds and…

AudioFileMarch 29, 2022

Fiction Listicles

Check Out These 9 “Library Books” for National Library Week

Walking into a library is like walking into an opium den. The exhilarating scent of paper and binding — whether musty with age or fruit-sweet and fresh off the press — is a perfume like no other. Endorphins flood the brain. Ahhhhh ... books! Here we can wander among the…

BookTribApril 5, 2022

Fiction Listicles Young Adult

Fighting for More Than Survival: 6 Stories of Love and Family in Times of Climate Catastrophes

In the 52 years since its founding, Earth Day has stood as an ever-more urgent call to act on climate change. Soaring temperatures, rising sea levels and a choked atmosphere are all results of modern society’s interference with nature, and just as these changes affect the whole of humanity, it’s…

Cameron KimballApril 22, 2022

Audiobooks Fiction Listicles

Voyage Into 5 Fascinating Worlds With These SFF Audiobooks

Put down your doomscrolling device and voyage with me out of earth’s orbit to different realms in five new fantasy and science fiction novels. A mix of stand-alone and series titles, they offer powerhouse female characters and the ultimate escape. There’s nothing like a trip out of time or into…

Aurelia C. ScottMay 4, 2022

Listicles

7 Hot New Novels by Writers of Asian American Heritage

It’s May again — we’re almost halfway through the year. It’s a good time to look ahead and also to pause and take a look at what we have accomplished. For those who don’t know, May is also a month to learn, reflect and honor the role Asian Americans and…

Weina Dai RandelMay 5, 2022

What Books Are These American Girl Dolls Recommending?

10 Books with Completely Unique Magic Systems

Cool Off with These Ice-Cold Fantasy Reads

5 Books About Family Secrets

Annabelle Escaped and These Haunted Items Want Out Too!

10 AAPI Authors Navigate Identity And Relationships Through Fiction

7 YA Fantasy Novels That Invent Captivating New Creatures

Treat Yourself to These 10 Book & Wine Pairings

5 Unconventional Families Searching for Their Place the Universe

It’s Your Lucky Day! Discover 7 Fantasy Novels Inspired by Irish Legend

What Lurks Beyond: 6 Entrancing and Horrific Tales of Otherworldly Foes

10 March Audiobook Favorites Blossoming in Your Earbuds

Check Out These 9 “Library Books” for National Library Week

Fighting for More Than Survival: 6 Stories of Love and Family in Times of Climate Catastrophes

Voyage Into 5 Fascinating Worlds With These SFF Audiobooks

7 Hot New Novels by Writers of Asian American Heritage

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