My favorite suffragette books: novels about women who helped win the right to vote. It has not been long since we were ...

Since Kirsten and I started the Read Carpet Report, we have been captivated by books about podcasts. These are novels about ...

Thoughtful Partita book club questions for Barbara Kingsovler's newest novel, covering music, ambition, and loss, plus a free printable discussion guide.

The new winter book releases for 2027 are fantastic, and I cannot wait to dive into these amazing books. This is the post ...

After the astounding success of Lessons in Chemistry, I have been eagerly waiting for Bonnie Garmus’s sophomore book. It is hard to believe that this is only her second book. There is so much to ...

The 2027 Reading Challenge is here! This will be the 9th reading challenge since Jackie and I started Beyond the Bookends. We love seeing how much the challenge has grown and how much all of you have ...

It is funny that sometimes reading one book in a very niche genre leads to a landslide of books in that same niche. That is what happened to me! I knew I wanted to make a list of novels set in ...

There have been so many WWII novels over the years (dare I say too many?), but my personal favorites are ones that focus on love stories because they represent hope in the face of the darkest evil.

Louse Penny is a master of mystery. Her plotlines are brilliant, and her characters are memorable. The Black Wolf is the twentieth book in the Three Pines series and the second in a two-book story arc ...

Every year, Kirsten and I love to find new ways to celebrate books and summer. This year, we knew books set on an island would be such a fun list of books to read. There were so many to choose from, ...

I noticed a trend this year that I love. Some of the best books I read were books with child narrators. These are adult books told from a child’s perspective, rather then books intended for children ...