Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series arrived like a lightning strike—anonymous author, volcanic critical praise, and a readership that suddenly wanted to […]
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By the time Marian Keyes wrote Angels, she’d already made the Walsh family a rom-com institution—funny on the surface, steel
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Marian Keyes made “funny-sad” its own literary mood, and Rachel’s Holiday might be her crown jewel. Second in the Walsh
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Marian Keyes didn’t so much arrive as kick the door in with Watermelon back in the mid-90s. It was her
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Claudia Gray’s Evernight dropped into the late-2000s paranormal boom with a classic hook—gothic boarding school, star-crossed romance, secrets in the
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Anthony Doerr’s blockbuster historical novel won the Pulitzer Prize and became one of those rare books that both your book
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Natalie Haynes is a classicist-turned-novelist with a mischievous glint; she’s built a second life retelling Greek myth from angles the
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Marie Lu’s breakout YA dystopian novel, Legend (2011), kicked off a trilogy that felt like a jolt to the genre:
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Scott Cawthon’s Five Nights at Freddy’s universe started as an indie game series about haunted animatronics and security cameras—and somehow
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Laura Lippman—longtime Baltimore crime writer and former reporter—has a gift for turning a city into a moral x-ray. With Lady
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