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September 2025 Chill QuillListicles

The Chill Quill: Books to Haunt You This Spooky Season

As summer slips into shadow, spooky season kicks off with 13 brand new titles that delve into haunted homes, cursed families, buried secrets and parasitic hunger. Whether you’re drawn to the sun-scorched deserts of trauma recovery, the bloodstained walls of a childhood home or the cultish corners of a doomed…
Lindy Ryan
September 16, 2025
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R.F. Kuang Fans Will Fall for These 6 Dark Academia Fantasies

The calendar’s turned over another page, school is back in session and orange-and-black decorations are already cluttering store shelves. While the weather might still be hovering around summertime temps, readers are already turning to the cooler season — brewing steaming mugs of loose-leaf tea, curling up in a well-cushioned reading…
Cameron Kimball
September 4, 2025
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6 Books with Jaw-Dropping Plot Twists

It’s a great feeling to open the pages of a new book and step into a different world. It’s even better when that world is filled with unexpected twists and turns—when the people you thought you knew suddenly reveal secrets that change everything. I can’t count how many times I’ve…
BookTrib
August 11, 2025
TALL POPPY - Summer Staycation - New Lives in New Lands Journeys of ReinventionListicles

New Lives in New Lands: 5+ Journeys of Reinvention

After enjoying a great read about life in another country, do you ever daydream about living elsewhere? I've always dreamed of starting a new life in the south of France. While that hasn’t happened for me (yet!), I’ve found joy in creating characters who do live that fantasy. My Love…
Patricia Sands
July 24, 2025
Poetry for the Soul - 7 Collections of Introspective Philosophical PoetryListicles

7 Collections of Introspective, Philosophical Poetry

Imagine the hush of dawn, when the world still speaks in quiet whispers — and poetry becomes the vessel for that inner conversation. These seven varied works are united by a shared purpose: to guide readers inward, toward reflection on identity, impermanence, suffering and spiritual awakening. Each volume offers a…
Katie Bloomer
July 28, 2025
July 2025 Chill QuillListicles

The Chill Quill: Summer Reads That Will Chill You to the Bone

Summer’s thermostat may be soaring, but July’s new releases are here to bring the spine-tingling chill back to your beach chair. Whether you’re sneaking away for late-night reads or treating yourself to a poolside gasp, from dark academia to folk horror and multigenerational sagas, first-time collector’s editions to murderous and…
Lindy Ryan
July 14, 2025