Alice Nuttall (she/her) is a writer, pet-wrangler and D&D nerd. Her reading has got so out of control that she had to take a job at her local library to avoid bankrupting herself on books — unfortunately, this has just resulted in her TBR pile growing until it resembles Everest. Alice's webcomic, writing and everything else can be found at https://linktr.ee/alicenuttallbooks. Her debut novel, The Zombie Project, is coming out in January 2025 with Chicken House.
Dystopian novels can make for bleak reading. Looking at real-life responses to disasters suggests, thankfully, they're too pessimistic.
The world is a difficult place, and we're all in need of some healing. From memoirs to self-help to fiction, here are the best healing books.
Find murder, mayhem, and other sinister troubles in the best novels about secret societies that have been published in the past few years, including Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé.
There are some great truck-themed books, but how do you narrow it down? Find the best children's books about trucks here, including Puppy Truck by Brian Pinkney!
From scientific nonfiction to folklore, find the best books about the moon will give you plenty of inspiration, like The Book of the Moon by Maggie Aderin-Pocock.
Everyone has a song lyric that they love or that has spoken to them in some powerful way. But the question remains: are lyrics literature?
These books for shy kids have quiet protagonists who learn to be true to who they are in a world full of louder people.
Crime in the library is often the subject of fiction, but what about in real life? A look at library crimes, from the mundane to the bizarre.
In this history of children's books, we look at some of the earliest examples of children's lit, and how the genre was shaped over the years.
If you have a volcano-loving young reader in your life, here are some of the best volcano books for kids from toddler to elementary-age, including Volcanoes and Earthquakes: Geo Detectives.