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Love, Lies and Last Chances: Save Us Wraps the Maxton Hall Saga with Heart

Save Us is the third book and the final installment in Mona Kasten’s Maxton Hall series, which gained popularity in the U.S. after an explosive first season on Prime Video. Season One closely followed book one, Save Me, and with season two releasing later this month, we’ll all find out…

Kristin KeatonNovember 5, 2025

Listicles

New Single, Same Icon: Hilary Duff’s Best Roles Reimagined as Must-Read Books

If you grew up on Disney Channel classics and teen-era comfort movies, consider this your cinematic coming-of-age with adult reading glasses. We did what any self-respecting millennial/bookish Gen-Z-adjacent audience would do: we took Hilary Duff’s most iconic characters and paired them with books that hit the same emotional frequency, but…

Kelsey HallNovember 7, 2025

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What’s in a Pen Name?: How I Went From Gothic Fiction to Bubblegum Pop

James Baldwin famously claimed that “every writer has only one story to tell,” and I’ve found that to be true. In my work I find myself grappling with the same set of ideas in different settings, changing scenery and characters to illuminate the same set of human truths. But if…

Margaux EliotNovember 4, 2025

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Tracing the Fragile Threads of Belonging Across Generations and Borders

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is Kiran Desai’s first novel to be published since her 2006 Booker Prize-winning The Inheritance of Loss, and it is well worth the wait. Its sprawling nearly-700 pages are packed with the best that contemporary fiction has to offer. There’s especially plenty for literary…

Nicole SchragSeptember 24, 2025

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Search for Hopes and Dreams on “The Lincoln Highway” and You’ll Enjoy the Ride

By the author of Rules of Civility and The Gentleman in Moscow (which I loved), The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles’ newest piece of work is sure to entertain. Drawn in on page one (of close to 600 pages) I thoroughly enjoyed spending 10 days with 18-year-old Emmett and the others…

Jennifer BlankfeinJanuary 7, 2022

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Author Q&A: Sara Novic on “True Biz” – Coming of Age Amid Deaf Culture

Recently, Book Nation Book Club had a wonderful conversation with author Sara Nović about her novel, True Biz (Random House) and the Deaf community. The story centers around a high school for the Deaf and dives deep into the lives of three main characters: Charlie, Austin and February. Charlie is a…

Jennifer BlankfeinJuly 4, 2022

Author Spotlight

Bold Heroine Rides into History in this Immersive and Spirited Series

Calling all readers of historical fiction, fans of spirited heroines, and horse lovers, this book is for you. Poetic, powerful, and deeply humane, A Clan Chief’s Daughter is a reminder that sometimes, it takes just one person, one rider, one dreamer, one daughter to change the course of history. In…

BookTribJuly 2, 2025

Fiction Recommended

Ancient Courage Rides Again in a Young Woman’s Hands

In A Clan Chief’s Daughter, Sarah V. Barnes returns to the windswept steppe for a powerful coming-of-age tale. As a bold young rider faces tradition, betrayal, and the stirrings of revolution, this richly imagined prehistoric novel delivers emotional depth, breathtaking scenery, and a heroine who dares to shape her destiny.

BookTribJune 25, 2025

Fiction Recommended

Small Town and Young Woman Haunted by Ghost of the Past in Chilling Mystery

Author Lana Sabarwal has written a memorable debut novel, Maya, Dead and Dreaming, a compelling mystery featuring an intelligent and emotionally fraught protagonist and an intriguing plot where friendly faces hide secrets, motives and the identity of a killer. Maya Hickman’s death in 1938 was tragic, and the circumstances around…

Philip ZozzaroJune 10, 2025

Fiction Recommended

Gripping Coming-of-Age Offers Poignant Reflection on Community, Resiliency and Destiny

In her latest gripping novel, Closer, Miriam Gershow drops us into an Oregon high school in the Winter of 2016 on the day a young student, Livvy, has been found dead. Clear your day for this one; you’ll be hooked from the first paragraph and unable to walk away until…

Kristin KeatonJune 3, 2025

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Chasing Chords, Women, and Ghosts of War in “Wither Creek”

To say Bill Ehnert appreciates women is an understatement. Whatever female strays into his peripheral vision, he sees through his own particular pair of rose-colored glasses, which makes Ken Rossal’s newest novel, Wither Creek, a joyous and libidinous ride. Starting out at 16, living in Smalltown America, Rossal’s everyman first…

Sherri DaleyMay 27, 2025

Fiction Listicles

Craving More Sally Rooney? You’ll Love These 6 Rooney-Esque Books

I, like so many others, have constantly chased the high I feel when reading books by bestselling author Sally Rooney. She has a way of making the most mundane subject matter fill you with such emotion as each book portrays the spectrum of human connection and interpersonal relationships. The same…

Kelsey HallSeptember 24, 2024

Fiction

Young Lives Shattered in Dark Dystopian Fantasy, “The Capital of Dreams”

The Capital of Dreams is one of those rare books that when finished leaves the reader both slightly mystified yet completely held in its thrall, dazzled by the imaginary world created by author Heather O’Neill. It defies standard genre classification as this novel-length fable blends magical realism with literary fiction…

Linda HitchcockFebruary 19, 2025

Thrillers

Murder, Secrets and the Long Road Back in Snowy Legal Novel

“Nora Sheehan sits in a jail cell in Lodgepole, Colorado, surrounded by three cinderblock walls and the kind of steel bars she’s only seen on television, gray and cold. She’s thirteen, the woman she might become still a shadow even though she’s ready to discard her childhood. A longing for…

Neil NyrenJanuary 31, 2025

Fiction Miscellany

Bruce Lee, Defying Stereotypes, and the Catharsis of Writing

Most writers embark on projects with a clear sense of what they want to say, often revisiting familiar characters, themes and settings. When my publisher agreed to launch Johnny Delivers, a standalone sequel to the award-winning Letters From Johnny, they likely had no idea of the deeper struggles I had…

Wayne NgOctober 28, 2024

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Young Woman Embarks Across America & War-Torn Vietnam for a Place to Belong

Inspired by snippets from the author’s life, Ida Mae and Her Passage to Chautauqua (Koehler Books) is a historical nonfiction narrative by award-winning poet and author, Rick Taylor. The story spans two generations, recounting the journey of Ida Mae Glockley and that of her son Adrian from their childhood to…

Natalia KavaleMay 22, 2024

Coming of Age Fiction

Love, Lies and Last Chances: Save Us Wraps the Maxton Hall Saga with Heart

New Single, Same Icon: Hilary Duff’s Best Roles Reimagined as Must-Read Books

What’s in a Pen Name?: How I Went From Gothic Fiction to Bubblegum Pop

Search for Hopes and Dreams on “The Lincoln Highway” and You’ll Enjoy the Ride

Author Q&A: Sara Novic on “True Biz” – Coming of Age Amid Deaf Culture

Bold Heroine Rides into History in this Immersive and Spirited Series

Ancient Courage Rides Again in a Young Woman’s Hands

Small Town and Young Woman Haunted by Ghost of the Past in Chilling Mystery

Gripping Coming-of-Age Offers Poignant Reflection on Community, Resiliency and Destiny

Chasing Chords, Women, and Ghosts of War in “Wither Creek”

Craving More Sally Rooney? You’ll Love These 6 Rooney-Esque Books

Bruce Lee, Defying Stereotypes, and the Catharsis of Writing

Young Woman Embarks Across America & War-Torn Vietnam for a Place to Belong

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