At its core, House of Flame and Shadow asks what happens after the big rebellion: when the monsters are still in power, the heroes are broken, and love and chosen … Read more
Most romantasy novels promise escape; Quicksilver by Callie Hart tackles something harder—the question of what you’ll sacrifice to survive injustice without losing your soul. In Quicksilver, a desert thief with … Read more
Most of us sense that our dreams and irrational reactions are trying to tell us something, but Man and His Symbols by C. G. Jung and Joseph L. Henderson shows … Read more
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green is the book that finally explains why, even in 2023, about 1.25 million people still died … Read more
We keep inventing smarter weapons to save soldiers’ lives—and then stay up at night wondering what happens when the weapons stop listening to us. If you’ve ever looked at a … Read more
For anyone who has ever staggered under adjunct contracts, late-night marking and the fear that their whole career could vanish with one restructuring email, An Academic Affair feels less like … Read more
If you’ve ever wondered how quickly a comfortable, privileged life could be ripped apart by one bad decision and one powerful lie, Nash Falls answers that in excruciating detail. It’s … Read more
The Miracles Among Us: How God’s Grace Plays a Role in Healing asks what you cling to when medicine gives you probabilities but your heart is begging for a miracle. … Read more
The American Revolution: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns tackles the quiet but dangerous problem so many of us carry – a comforting, half-remembered myth of … Read more
Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe by psychic medium Laura Lynne Jackson steps into the aching space between grief and meaning, offering a framework for understanding the strange “signs” … Read more
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties is the book you pick up when the official story of the Manson murders stops making sense. After … Read more
When I finished Exit Strategy, what stayed with me wasn’t just Jack Reacher’s body count but the unnerving question it raises: what if the next war isn’t started by nations, … Read more
Most of us scroll past news about climate, war and space launches feeling both overwhelmed and weirdly numb; Orbital asks what happens if we are forced to look at Earth—our … Read more
Most fantasy-romance readers know the ache of finishing Quicksilver and realizing Saeris Fane is dying on the floor of an arena, her story brutally cut in half. Brimstone exists to … Read more
When a parent and an adult child finally sit down to talk after years of silence, what language do they even share anymore. Bryan Washington’s Palaver takes that terrifying, ordinary … Read more
Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult by Ellen Huet is the book you reach for when you sense that something is very wrong at … Read more
In a world of information overload and emotional turbulence, The Daily Stoic offers a simple, daily practice for centring the mind and cultivating resilience. Holiday and Hanselman argue that the timeless … Read more
Many of us feel our reasoning skills falter in heated debates, and Madsen Pirie’s How to Win Every Argument promises to demystify logic by exposing the fallacies that often defeat us. The book is a … Read more
I’ve read a lot of memoirs about coercive groups, but The Polygamist’s Daughter by Anna LeBaron (Tyndale Momentum, 2017) is the rare book that shows you—moment by moment—how a child … Read more
If your team looks busy but isn’t breaking through, Strong Ground shows why—and how—to stop playing not to lose and start playing to win. Build Strong Ground—a stance that blends … Read more
Grief leaves you feeling like the world has been unplugged mid-sentence; Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking shows how to plug language back in long enough to keep breathing. … Read more
In a world still shaped by invisible rules and inherited expectations, We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie arrives like a clear voice cutting through static—honest, warm, and … Read more
If you’ve ever wondered what your DNA “really says” about who you are, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes explains what it actually … Read more
If you think beards are a vibe, Christopher Oldstone-Moore shows in Of Beards and Men they’re really a vote—about masculinity, authority, and who gets to set the rules. “The history … Read more
Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks is a field guide for women who sense that “more” is possible in love—more honesty, more agency, more community, more joy. … Read more
Love is not a luxury for Black life—it’s infrastructure. This review of Salvation: Black People and Love by bell hooks unpacks the book’s thesis, key chapters, evidence base, and real-world … Read more
We’re living through an epidemic of disconnection, yet most of us were never taught how to love—and bell hooks’ All About Love: New Visions is the practical, ethical playbook we’ve … Read more
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach is the book I wish I had years ago, when every viral headline promised a lab-grown organ, a bionic limb, or … Read more
When we picture World War II spies, we imagine tuxedos and pistols, not catalog cards and microfilm cameras. Book and Dagger solves that problem by showing how badly we’ve underestimated … Read more
The problem The Silver Book solves: How do you live, make art, and love freely when fascism, homophobia and spectacle are all closing in on your body at once? When … Read more