And the Winner is…LitStack Indie Bookstore Award
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We've updated this post with the winning bookstore listed at the very end. Scroll down to find out this year's...
Drowning - Just try to breathe! Buy Drowning on Bookshop.org T.J. Newman is back again with another riveting thriller set...
This Week's AuthorsT.H. WHITE - Author Birthday May 29COLM TÓIBÍN - Author Birthday May 30WALT WHITMAN - Author Birthday May...
For this LitStack Rec, we are celebrating Short Story Month by singing the praises of the linked story collection and...
We are here to help you find some balance in your writing. We recommend five great writing retreats and some...
An elevated beachside read in the Outer Banks Bookshop Mysteries series. Murder on Mustang Beach is perfect for fans of...
The musical Six is a fantastic, joyous musical that does what theater does best: synthesizes events to dramatize the emotional...
For this LitStack Rec, we're revisiting James Tate Hill's engaging and unique memoir, Blind Man's Bluff (2021). We're anticipating James'...
With The House on Prytania, book two in her Royal Street series, Karen White spins another paranormal charmer full of...
These novels, story collections, and works of nonfiction by Asian American and Pacific Islander authors mine loss, grief, and the...
This LitStack Rec not only examines character building but also some of the challenging aspects of gender portrayal in the...
Genevieve Cogman's Scarlet takes readers to 18th-century Europe. Aristocratic society has welcomed vampires into its community of elites. A vampire...
This LitStack Rec celebrates April's National Poetry Month and Arab American Heritage Month by recommending the luscious and beautiful book...
Everything is seamless to the audience of a Broadway show like the award-winning musical Hadestown. But what I discovered reading...
Kat Howard at kathowardbooks is a celebrated fantasy writer and editor best known for her Locus Award-nominated novel, "Rose and...
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Our Litstack Rec Of The Hero Of This BookBlurring The Line Between Fact And FictionA True Story Built On InventionA...
What’s Up, and What’s Coming for Alan Cumming?Rejecting the OBELive Cabaret ActIn League with Professor SproutTime to Revisit Not My...
The Best Writing Advice Put One Word in Front of AnotherFind Your Own Path Sympathetic Characters Make for Great Stories...
Click to HeadingsIntroductionAbout Sisters of the Lost NationSisters of the Lost Nation ExcerptDay 1 5:04 p.m.Praise for Sisters of the...
A Story Deepened by a Poetic SensibilityA Legacy of Mixed HeritageSeeing Personal History Through the Prisms of War and ErasureThe...
LinesmanS. K. Dunstall*Ace BooksRelease Date: June 30, 2015ISBN 978-0-425-27952-6 The Best Books are Timeless. Is Linesman?You Need to Get One...
Writer: Gail SimoneArt: Phil NotoPublisher: Marvel UniversePublish Date: March 14, 2023 Publisher’s DescriptionOur ReviewYou May Ask, What’s The Variants About?Enter...
Grief and the structure of loss weaves an intricate, beautiful sophomore novel in Life and Other Love Songs from Anissa...
The main character in Sara Jost's Five First Chances, Lou, wants a do-over. She wants to change things for herself,...
The right song, at the right time, with the right person. The Essence of Daisy JonesThe Seventies are BackThe Mercurial...
Table of ContentsWhat Does It Mean To Go Beyond Story?Fallen Heroes: Sixteen Master Villain Archetypes, by Tami D. CowdenUnderstanding Conflict:...
Why You Should Celebrate School Libraries and LibrariansOvercoming Learning ChallengesAffirmation and ConfirmationInvent the FutureFeed CuriosityEmpower StudentsMake Sense of the WorldHow...
Favorite Shakespeare quotes shared during the month of April are a great way to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday. Despite the controversy...
1979 Bantam edition ▬ᴥ▬ I first read Sophie’s Choice in a Bantam paperback 1979 edition. Sophies's Choice is not a...
It’s been a while since this dyed-in-the-wool fan of speculative and (often) dystopian fiction found a novel that I found...
Taste: My Life Through Food, a memoir “Cook. Smell. Taste. Eat. Drink. Share. Repeat as necessary.” For better or worse,...
by Montéz Louria Night of The Living Rez, by Morgan TaltyTin House Books (July 2022)Paperback: 296 pagesISBN-10 : 195353418X...
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin’s 2009 novel, recipient of the Costa Award, is an affecting and haunting story set in...
Mr. & Mrs. Witch by Gwenda Bond begins innocently enough on the morning of the wedding of two people—Savvy and...
For #WomensHistoryMonth, here are three memoirs that portray a range of women's lives, from mid-century summers in Brittany, to pre-9/11...
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association has announced its list of finalists for the 58th Nebula Awards. The awards...
Happy International Women's Day! We're so proud to celebrate this month and this day with each of you and to...
Three Great Short Story Collections for Women's History Month For #WomensHistoryMonth, here are three classic story collections by women who...
LITSTACK'S FEATURED AUTHOR REVIEW The GiverLois LowryPublished in 1993 from Bantam Books This post has been updated from an earlier...
This month, we're taking some time to celebrate women; the female characters in our favorite books, and the women who...
We end Black History Month with some recommendations on books by Black authors that, for one reason or another, have...
The Candy House: a novel, by Jennifer Egan This intricate novel of futurism, connection, love and attachment—like the social media...
Nights, by Joan Didion Blue Nights is a counterpart to Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, which tracks...
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo NoViolet Bulawayo's powerful novel of the life of a young girl from Zimbabwe,...
Twenty-eight days isn't long enough to cover the works Black individuals have contributed to America's landscape or the integral part...
Whereabouts, a novel, by Jhumpa Lahiri This melancholy and stylish novel, Jhumpa Lahiri’s third, marks a tonal and literary departure....
I started reading romance before there were authors who looked like me. Before there were characters who looked like me....
The Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50th Anniversary edition, is an original graphic novel of 12 short comic stories of over...