Litstack Recs | These Charming People: Stories & The Stargazer’s Sister
These Charming People, stories by Michael Arlen Edition from the 2nd printing of These Charming People, c. 1924 In the...
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Litstack Recs | Blue Nights & Ormeshadow
Blue Nights, by Joan Didion Blue Nights is a counterpart to Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, which...
Litstack Rec | The Empty Family & The Snow Child
The Empty Family: Stories by Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín's 2011 collection, The Empty Family is a book I always keep...
Litstack Recs | The Films in My Life & The Space Between Worlds
The Films in My Life, by Francois Truffaut We are lucky that Francois Truffaut was in his short life a...
Litstack Recs | The 400 Blows & Hamnet
The 400 Blows, by Francois Truffaut 2019 marked the 60th anniversary of the release of Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows,...
Litstack Recs|Delayed Rays of a Star & Slay
Delayed Rays of a Star, by Amanda Lee Koe At a New Year's Eve ball in 1928, the German-born American...
Litstack Recs | 2021 Reading List & The Murderbot Diaries
New year, new books—and these are some of the ones I'm looking forward to in 2021. My Year Abroad, by...
Litstack Recs | The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark
The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark Late in Eleanor Clark’s extraordinary book, she tells us the oyster needs the...
Litstack Recs | The MoneyBunny Series & Shades of Milk and Honey
The MoneyBunny Series The internationally acclaimed MoneyBunnies Series, by Canadian author and illustrator Cinders McLeod, are the perfect books for...
Litstack Recs| Selected Stories & The Once and Future Witches
Selected Stories, by William Trevor A volume of stories by William Trevor is a reader's must-have, and this 2009 collection...
Litstack Recs | There There: A novel & Pacific Storm
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant. Innovative. Lyric. Tommy Orange's stunning fiction debut is all those things, but...
Rachel Caine, 1962 – 2020
Science fiction, fantasy, mystery, suspense and horror novelist Rachel Caine lost her battle with soft tissue sarcoma on November 1....
Litstack Recs | Thunderstruck & Other Stories & A Fort of Nine Towers
Thunderstruck & Other Stories, by Elizabeth McCracken Early on in Elizabeth McCracken’s extraordinary story collection, Thunderstruck, a grieving mother instructs...
LitStack Recs | Car Trouble & Northernmost
Car Trouble by Robert Rorke As Car Trouble opens, it's one a.m., and the novel’s young protagonist, Nicky Flynn, is...
Litstack Recs | Sophie’s Choice & Hearts of Oak
Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron In 1979, John Gardner wrote in his review of Sophie's Choice, “guilt is everywhere,” a...
Litstack Recs | Middlemarch & The Expanse Series
Middlemarch, by George Eliot The first thing I knew about Middlemarch, George Eliot’s classic novel, was the ending. The year...
Litstack Rec | Earn It & Class A
Earn It! by Cinders McLeod This is the perfect book for young readers on your list, because it's never too...
Cover Reveal: The Night’s Chosen by EE Hornburg
The Night’s Chosenby EE Hornburg(The Cursed Queens Series, #1)Published by: City Owl PressPublication date: October 6th 2020Genres: Adult, Fairy Tales, Retelling, Romance SYNOPSIS: CHOSEN OF...
LitStack Recs | Space Opera & Fear: Trump in the White House
Space Opera, by Catherynne Valente Having recently watched the surprisingly good Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga on...
Litstack Recs |Three classics of Writing Craft & The Poet X
If you're devoting some of your stay-at-home to a work-in-progress, here are three classics of writing craft to see you...
Litstack Recs| Ship Fever & A Wild Sheep Chase
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett The eight stories in Andrea Barrett's 1996 story collection, which won that year's National...
Excerpt: TO SLEEP IN A SEA OF STARS by Christopher Paolini
Today on LitStack, we're proud to host the full excerpt of Christopher Paolini's space odyssey, TO SLEEP IN A SEA...
Micro-Excerpt: TO SLEEP IN A SEA OF STARS by Christopher Paolini
Congratulations to Christopher Paolini, author of the popular Inheritance Cycle on the upcoming release of his novel TO SLEEP IN...
Litstack Recs | Commonwealth & Otaku
Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett Of divorce, Nicole Krauss wrote, "One of us held on to the ambition of the one...
What To Do During the Quarantine…and Still Keep Safe
Phase 1, in most states, has already begun. People are rushing to beaches and stores. Some have already hurried to...
NEW RELEASES | May 2020
Get those one-click fingers ready. Here's our list for the new release titles we're eager to get our hands one...
Litstack Recs |Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend & Exit West
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges Anna May Wong was the first...
Litstack Recs |The Good Soldier & The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the title the author chose, The...
Litstack rec | Vanity Fair & The Stars Are Legion
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray The early nineteenth century didn’t have reality television, but it did have William Makepeace...
LitStack Recs|The Priory of the Orange Tree & The Death of the Heart
The Priory of the Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon Samantha Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree has been getting...
Litstack Recs| How to Write an Autobiographical Novel & A Song for a New Day
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
LitStack Recs: Car Trouble & Ninth House
Car Trouble: A novel, by Robert Rorke As Car Trouble opens, the novel’s young protagonist, teenaged Nicky Flynn, is driving...
LitStack Recs: Great Expectations & The Dead Fish Museum
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens Narrated by Eddie Izzard I will admit that in a life full of fondness for...
LitStack Recs: Stoner & Atlas Alone
Stoner, by John Williams When it was first published, John Williams’ 1965 novel went out of print after selling only...
LitStack Recs: This Is How You Lose the Time War & The UnAmericans
This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone In this extraordinary novella, two warring...
Litstack Recs: Without & Ormeshadow
Without, by Donald Hall It doesn’t matter what I’m doing or what time of day or night it is, when...
Litstack Rec: The Vexations and The Lost Child of Lychford
The Vexations, by Caitlin Horrocks One of my favorites books of this year, Caitlin Horrock's debut novel, The Vexations, is...
Cover Reveal: American Demon by Kim Harrison
Guess who's back? Our favorite ginger witch, no...not Mrs. Potter, the smart-talking, mostly demon, once-was witch, Rachel Morgan has returned...
LitStack Review: Silver by Linda Nagata
Silver (Inverted Frontier Book 2) Linda Nagata Mythic Island Press Release Date: November 19, 2019 I simply do not have...
Litstack Rec: The Vexations & Relics
The Vexations, by Caitlin Horrocks The lives of artists, when depicted in novels, must portray artmaking for what it is:...
Litstack Rec: Epilogue: A Memoir & Zombie Baseball Beatdown
Epilogue: A Memoir, by Will Boast Both a remembrance and an elegiac account of the loss of a family, Boast’s...
LitStack Rec: Manhood for Amateurs & A Fort of Nine Towers
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, essays by Michael Chabon The trope of...
Litstack Recs: Passage to Ararat & The Orphan Master’s Son
Passage to Ararat, by Michael J. Arlen Tuesday, April 24, marked a sober anniversary, 103 years since the Armenian genocide,...
Litstack Rec Fear: Trump in the White House & Six Gun Snow White
Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward The story has been called a bookend to Richard Nixon's, a...
LitStack Recs: Cutting Teeth & Green
Cutting Teeth, by Julia Fierro When my daughter was little, there was a universally acknowledged sentiment among the parents I...
Litstack Rec: The Love of a Good Woman & The Windup Girl
The Love of A Good Woman, Stories by Alice Munro The short story has few practitioners as skilled as Alice...
Litstack Rec: Arranged Marriage & Class A
Arranged Marriage: Stories, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Acclaimed poet, novelist, and story writer Chitra Banerjee Divrakaruni’s first book of fiction...
