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This is the last Friday before Christmas, so it’s no surprise that holiday books are all over the Most Read Books on Goodreads list this week. The full 50-title list includes classics, like title="Buy from Thriftbooks" href="https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fa-christmas-carol-by-charles-dickens%2F275972%2F" data-title...
There is something about Christmas Eve. I grew up going to a Lutheran church, and every Christmas Eve service ended with the song “Silent Night.” The church would lower the lights to near-darkness, and we’d walk out in reverent silence. There was something spooky about that in a way that delighted me, and it was no doubt foundational for my love of eerie atmospheres and stori...
Haunted house books aren’t new. It’s a whole subgenre of horror fiction, and I have read and recommended plenty of them. So what makes a haunted house book worth reading? What makes it stand out? The thing about haunted house stories is that they’re also family stories. It’s about the people who live in the house, their traumas, their relationships, and how those things are m...
Just as many TV shows will at some point have a Christmas special, comic books are also known to commemorate the season with appropriately themed adventures. This year, I thought we’d take a look back at Christmas of 1983, with DC Comics Presents #67.
The story begins with Superman stopping a boy — whose name is Timmy Dickens, because of course it is — from ro...
Every year, former President Barack Obama shared his favorite reads of the year, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as his favorite movies and music. This year’s list includes award-winning literary fiction, popular nonfiction, and some less well-known choices. As for how he selects these titles, he says that these are the “books that have stuck with me long after I finishe...
