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10 Fever Dream Books That Will Have You Checking Your Temperature

These surreal books, including Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos, feel so much like a fever dream that you'll be taking your temperature just to be sure.

Study Up on Campus Novels: A Back-to-School-Inspired Reading List for Grown-Ups

These campus novels for adults raise questions around race, class, or gender or are simply set in or around campuses, including Real Life by Brandon Taylor.

8 Award-Winning Literary Fiction Books You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Despite winning awards, these little-known beautiful and thought-provoking literary fiction books, like Last of Her Name by Mimi Lok, remain criminally underrated.

10 Books about Rock stars

Love music and the rock star lifestyle? Find nonfiction memoirs and biographies, and fictional books about rock star, including The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton.

Would You Call That Happily Ever After? Strange and Obscure Fairy Tales

Bones in a cauldron, rats with self-esteem, and anthropomorphized sausage: these strange fairy tales are not the stories you're used to!

We’re Not New: A 20th Century Queer Lit Reading List

20th century queer lit reminds us that not only have queer people alway been here, but they've always been just as joyful and complicated. Start with Harlem Shadows by Claude McKay.

The Best New Vacation Reads to Pack for Your Next Trip

Whether you prefer romantic adventures, edge-of-your-seat thrillers, or even horror, these new vacation reads are perfect for your next trip.

15 Excellent 2023 Short Story Collections by Asian Authors

These new short story collections from Asian and Asian diaspora voices — including A New Race of Men from Heaven by Chaitali Sen — are insightful, deeply strange, intense, and profound.

Go Under the Sea with the Best Mermaids in Literature

If you love mermaids of all kinds—the beautiful and the tragic and the grotesque—here are some of the best mermaids from books, including Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh.

8 Books About Characters with Chronic Pain

Check out these novels about characters with chronic pain like Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.