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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS
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Jean M. AuelPrehistoric fiction fans have waited three decades for The Land of Painted Caves, the conclusion to the epic Earth Children series set 25,000 years ago. More |
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Ted DekkerThe best-selling thriller writer borrows from the darkest recesses of his imagination in The Priest's Graveyard, a new novel about a man and a woman seeking vigilante justice. More |
IN THE WORKS
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Coming Soon: Smart RecommendationsWhat do you get when you combine the Goodreads database of 100 million book ratings with fancy algorithmic technology? One more way to find a great book! We hope this powerful book recommendation system will enhance our community and be smarter than anything you've seen before. Learn more |
IN BED WITH...
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Arthur Phillips's Favorite Plays Within Other WorksThe novelist shares a list of works embedded with plays, not unlike his own The Tragedy of Arthur, a "memoir" featuring an undiscovered Shakespeare quarto. More |
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Blake Butler's Favorite Surrealist LiteratureThe David Lynch of books shares his top five works of weirdness in honor of his new domestic dreamscape, There Is No Year. More |
FEATURED AUTHOR GROUPS
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Alan BradleyThe mystery writer chats about clever Flavia de Luce, his 11-year-old sleuth. This wee chemist with a fondness for poisons is the heroine of A Red Herring Without Mustard. More |
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Megan McCaffertyThe young adult novelist will talk about Bumped, her satire about a future dystopia where no one over age 18 can get pregnant and teen breeders propagate the human race. More |
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Jim FrederickThe executive editor of TIME magazine and author of Black Hearts joins veterans from the Iraq War to discuss modern warfare and on-the-ground reporting. More |
DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT
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Rebecca RasmussenIn the novel The Bird Sisters, two spinsters recall the fateful 1947 summer that turned their lives upside down. Rasmussen shares an image of her muse—her grandmother. More |
MOVERS & SHAKERS
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The Pale KingFull of grisly and hilarious anecdotes, this posthumous novel relates the mind-numbing boredom of an Internal Revenue Service office. Wallace casts himself as an acne-riddled new recruit among a motley crew of bureaucrats. More |
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The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the PrairieRoad tripping from Wisconsin's big woods to the banks of Minnesota's Plum Creek, memoirist McClure recounts her obsession with Laura Ingalls Wilder. She attempts butter churning and searches for her lost girlhood along the way. More |
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Elizabeth IOpening in 1588 as the Spanish Armada is poised to strike, this historical novel chronicles the iconic life of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen, who weathered a lifelong power struggle against her cousin and rival, schemer Lettice Knollys. More |
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Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
by Holly Tucker
A rebel doctor is accused of murder after transfusing a patient with animal blood in this nonfiction, 17th-century whodunit. Superstition pervaded medicine, and the nascent practice of blood transfusion would be banned for 150 years. More |
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Friendship Bread
by Darien Gee
One recipe resets a woman's life in this small-town tale. Still reeling from her son's death, Julia receives an anonymous gift of friendship bread. She reluctantly makes her own loaf and shares the batch with new friends. More |
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Enclave
by Ann Aguirre
Born underground, heroine Deuce battles zombies who prowl the labyrinth of tunnels below and goes on a dangerous journey of survival with a mysterious boy. Hunger Games fans will love this young adult adventure. More |
LITERATURE AT EVERY LATITUDE
Comilla, Bangladesh:
23° 27' N
91° 10' E
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My Kind of GirlFour strangers stranded overnight in a train station swap bittersweet stories of true love, lost love, and unrequited love in this poignant Bengali novella. More |
NEW FEATURE
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Genre PagesLove historical fiction? Craving a juicy memoir? Check out our genres pages and explore hundreds of sub-genres. From fantasy, try paranormal, and even specify shapeshifters or witches. You can also customize the main page to your favorite categories. Find exactly what interests you, or stumble on something unexpected! More |
GOODREADS POETRY CONTEST
Want your words to reach 4 million people? Goodreads and the ¡POETRY! group have partnered to host an ongoing poetry contest. Join the ¡POETRY! group to vote each month to pick a winner from among the finalists. You can also submit a poem for consideration. Here is our April winner!
Riding Backwards on the Train
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It's not unpleasant: perpetual surprise. But instead of feeling I'll arrive, the world appears to pour towards whatever I'm getting away from. Cows and foliage blur by and I try to imagine easing into couch cushions, or the plunge back onto the bed, quilt whooshing up from behind. Still, I can't shake the faint dyslexia reverse riding brings, the suspicion I'm rushing assbackwards into the future, kick-me sign tacked to my spine, a breech birth with no eye for what's ahead until it crashes into the past, the inkling I'm a fool doing the backstroke smack up against the wall of the pool. |
For National Poetry Month, this month's winner will receive a copy of Horoscopes for the Dead, autographed by the poet Billy Collins. |
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Jessica, Elizabeth, and the Goodreads Team
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