by Heather Duffy | Nov 11, 2026
Ten mystery series for when you've run out of Christie, sorted by what you lovedSo you've finished them. All of them. Poirot, Marple, Tommy and Tuppence, the standalones, the one with the narrator (you know the one). And now you're standing in front of...
by Katie Navarro | Nov 10, 2026
For fans of The Crescent Moon Tearoom, Practical Magic and Legends & Lattes Most of the fantasy we fall for is big: dark lords, dragons, a wizard with a staff, the fate of a kingdom settled in the final chapter. Cozy fantasy works on a smaller scale. Its magic...
by Jenna Dorsey | Nov 10, 2026
Sweet, steamy or spicy: pick your temperature and start here Hockey romance is my happy place. Big sweethearts on skates, a locker room full of chirping, and at least one man who looks like he could bench-press a Zamboni and goes to pieces the second the heroine...
by Katie Navarro | Nov 9, 2026
Ten retellings where the stakes are as agonizing as Austen’s Here’s my test for an Austen retelling, and it’s a strict one. Austen’s plots turn on what’s at stake. Money, class, reputation, an entailed estate, and a world where a woman’s best option...
by Jenna Dorsey | Nov 9, 2026
Forty-three books, five of us, and five different ideas of how dark is dark enough CW: this whole genre. Expect stalking, captivity, kidnapping, violence, coercion and dubious consent, and sexual assault in some of these books. Each of us flags the heavy ones as we...
