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7 Great Books Hitting Shelves Today
Posted by Hayley on November 21, 2017
Posted by Hayley on November 21, 2017
Need another excuse to go to the bookstore this week? We've got you covered. In addition to highly anticipated sequels from Dean Koontz and Anne Rice, check out these brand-new standalone titles Goodreads members are loving.
You should read this book if you like: Mystery, cryptic text messages, suspenseful plot twists, crumbling facades, matters of life and death
You should read this book if you like: Middle-grade fantasy, street magicians, sleepy New England towns, crooked carnies, mystical adventure
You should read this book if you like: History, gentlemen geologists, archaelogy, rocks, zany characters, more rocks philosophical debates
You should read this book if you like: Fiction, life-affirming stories, nosy neighbors, overcoming loss and lonliness, second chacnes at happiness
You should read this book if you like: Comic books, Amazon warriors, seeking truth, kicking butt, bad gods and good heroes
You should read this book if you like: Nonfiction, the secrets to success, life advice from top athletes, authors and entrepreneurs
You should read this book if you like: YA fiction, The Importance of Being Earnest, summer camp, science fiction, competition
What catches your eye? Let's talk books in the comments!
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This Is It: The Final Round of the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards Starts Now!
Posted by Cybil on November 13, 2017
Vote now in the Final Round! »
It's all come down to this: It's time to pick from the best of the best to determine the winners of the 9th annual Goodreads Choice Awards. It's the only major book awards decided by you, the readers!
In the first two rounds of this year's Choice Awards, you cast 2.19 million votes (which also included your 19,000 write-in nominations). Those votes have been tallied and now we’ve narrowed down the field from 20 to ten favorites in each of the 20 genres.
Be sure to check out who made the final cut and vote your favorites onto victory in each of the categories including Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Young Adult Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Nonfiction, and Debut Goodreads Author.
This final round lasts from November 14 until November 27.
We know that you stand by your vote, so share your picks with your friends, family, and followers on social media with the hashtag #GoodreadsChoice.
All of the Goodreads Choice Award winners will be announced on Tuesday, December 5.
Posted by Cybil on November 13, 2017
Vote now in the Final Round! »
It's all come down to this: It's time to pick from the best of the best to determine the winners of the 9th annual Goodreads Choice Awards. It's the only major book awards decided by you, the readers!
In the first two rounds of this year's Choice Awards, you cast 2.19 million votes (which also included your 19,000 write-in nominations). Those votes have been tallied and now we’ve narrowed down the field from 20 to ten favorites in each of the 20 genres.
Be sure to check out who made the final cut and vote your favorites onto victory in each of the categories including Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Young Adult Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Nonfiction, and Debut Goodreads Author.
We know that you stand by your vote, so share your picks with your friends, family, and followers on social media with the hashtag #GoodreadsChoice.
All of the Goodreads Choice Award winners will be announced on Tuesday, December 5.
So, what are you waiting for? Get to voting!
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7 Highly Anticipated Books That Hit Shelves Today
Posted by Hayley on November 14, 2017
Posted by Hayley on November 14, 2017
Need another excuse to go to the bookstore this week? We've got you covered. In addition to highly anticipated sequels from Brandon Sanderson and David Baldacci, check out these brand-new standalone titles Goodreads members are loving.
You should read this book if you like: Science fiction, The Martian, intricate heists, moons (specifically Earth's), criminals with hearts of gold
Read our interview with Weir here.
Read our interview with Weir here.
You should read this book if you like: History, meddling grandmothers, the Victorian era, royal scandals and revolutions, family drama
You should read this book if you like: Fantasy, Cairo in the 18th century, ruthless magic, secret cities and legendary warriors, unlikely heroes
You should read this book if you like: Romantic suspense, Brazil, former stars of One Tree Hill, taking down drug lords, deadly cat-and-mouse games
You should read this book if you like: Nonfiction, exploring our "post-factual" world, the history of famous hoaxes, truthiness
Read our interview with Young here.
Read our interview with Young here.
You should read this book if you like: Middle-grade fantasy, magical strangers, overcoming grief, the healing power of friendship
Read Mafi's recommendations for middle-grade readers here.
Read Mafi's recommendations for middle-grade readers here.
You should read this book if you like: Memoirs, caustic humor, brazen coming-of-age tales, unveiling (and combating) racism, sexism, and homophobia
What catches your eye? Let's talk books in the comments!
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Posted by Hayley on November 09, 2017
Posted by Hayley on November 09, 2017
A lake transformed by the storms of a half-human girl, a hospital where one patient's silence sparks an intricate mystery, and a deadly world where the last humans must unite for survival…
Welcome to the world of irresistible young adult fiction! Every month, our team takes a look at what books are being published—and how early readers are responding to them. We use this information to curate a list of soon-to-be-beloved favorites, from contemporary tales set in the suburbs to fantasy epics in realms of mystery and mischief.
For November, we've got three buzzy debuts as well as a highly anticipated dystopian series from bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon. Add the books that catch your eye to your Want to Read shelf and let us know what you're reading and recommending in the comments.
Welcome to the world of irresistible young adult fiction! Every month, our team takes a look at what books are being published—and how early readers are responding to them. We use this information to curate a list of soon-to-be-beloved favorites, from contemporary tales set in the suburbs to fantasy epics in realms of mystery and mischief.
For November, we've got three buzzy debuts as well as a highly anticipated dystopian series from bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon. Add the books that catch your eye to your Want to Read shelf and let us know what you're reading and recommending in the comments.
Kat hates talking to people, and Meg hates being alone. When a year-long science project throws them together, they bond over their mutual love of online gaming.
After a horrific virus nearly wipes out the human race, a small band of teens with unusual abilities takes the planet back from a heartless alien race.
The daughter of the lake, Anda is only half human. She lurks in storms, terrifying sailors and sinking ships, until a haunted young man comes to her for help.
In the wake of her ex-boyfriend's tragic death, Jessa packs up his things...and begins to question both the relationship and the boy she thought she knew.
The fashion trend of the future: recoding your DNA. Gene-hacking prodigy Cat dives into a world of killer technology to prevent a global catastrophe.
Alternating between "then" and "now" chapters, Hadley's heartbreaking story of a forbidden love, a fragile family, and a dark, terrible secret slowly unfolds.
Plus we've got a fan Q&A with The Becoming of Noah Shaw author Michelle Hodkin.
What recent YA book would you recommend? Share it with us in the comments!
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Book Look: A Tribute to Typewriters
Posted by Cybil on November 10, 2017
The new art book Typewriters: Iconic Machines from the Golden Age of Mechanical Writing celebrates everything from the creation of the QWERTY keyboard to the world's first portable typing machine.
Actor Tom Hanks is a huge fan of these beloved writing instruments. He's also a new author and wrote the foreword to this book.
In his introduction, Hanks says there are only 11 reasons to use a typewriter:
"1. Your penmanship is illegible. I mean, unreadable, so cocked-up and irregular that you use block printing and flowing script in the same five-letter word. The kind of handwriting that one of those legal experts would examine for a trial and say, 'Oh, he's guilty!'
2. You can't afford or are just too thickheaded to figure out a computer.
3. Your religion forbids the use of machinery invented after 1867, when John Pratt came up with the Pterotype.
4. The Communists are back in power. Their technology sort of maxed out with space rockets and typewriters, at about the same time.
5. You want the assurance that your letter/note/receipt/speech/test or quiz/school report will, most likely, be kept for a long time, perhaps forever. It's a fact: no one chucks anything typewritten into the trash after just one reading. E-mails? I delete most before I see the electronic signature.
6. You take great pleasure in the tactile experience of typing—the sound, the physical quality of touch, the report and action of type-bell-return, the carriage, and the satisfaction of pulling a completed page out of the machine, raaappp!
7. If what you are writing is lengthy, the distraction of rolling another page into the carriage allows you to collect your thoughts.
8. You are an artist, equal to Picasso, and everything you type is a one-of-a-kind work. The combination of paper quality, the age of the ribbon, the minute quirks of your machine, the occasional misuse of the space bar, and the options of the margins and tabs all add up to make anything you type as varied and unique as the thoughts in your head and the ridges of your fingerprints. Everything you type is a snowflake all its own.
9. You own a typewriter. It has been serviced and works just fine. The ribbon is fresh. You keep the machine out on a table at the correct height, not locked away in a closet still in its case. You have next to it a small stack of stationery and maybe some envelopes. The typewriter is ready and easy to use any time of the day.
10. You really want to bother the other customers at the coffee place.
11. Typewriter = Chick Magnet."
All images ©Typewriters: Iconic Machines from the Golden Age of Mechanical Writing, published by Chronicle Books, 2017.
Posted by Cybil on November 10, 2017
Actor Tom Hanks is a huge fan of these beloved writing instruments. He's also a new author and wrote the foreword to this book.
In his introduction, Hanks says there are only 11 reasons to use a typewriter:
"1. Your penmanship is illegible. I mean, unreadable, so cocked-up and irregular that you use block printing and flowing script in the same five-letter word. The kind of handwriting that one of those legal experts would examine for a trial and say, 'Oh, he's guilty!'
2. You can't afford or are just too thickheaded to figure out a computer.
3. Your religion forbids the use of machinery invented after 1867, when John Pratt came up with the Pterotype.
4. The Communists are back in power. Their technology sort of maxed out with space rockets and typewriters, at about the same time.
5. You want the assurance that your letter/note/receipt/speech/test or quiz/school report will, most likely, be kept for a long time, perhaps forever. It's a fact: no one chucks anything typewritten into the trash after just one reading. E-mails? I delete most before I see the electronic signature.
6. You take great pleasure in the tactile experience of typing—the sound, the physical quality of touch, the report and action of type-bell-return, the carriage, and the satisfaction of pulling a completed page out of the machine, raaappp!
7. If what you are writing is lengthy, the distraction of rolling another page into the carriage allows you to collect your thoughts.
8. You are an artist, equal to Picasso, and everything you type is a one-of-a-kind work. The combination of paper quality, the age of the ribbon, the minute quirks of your machine, the occasional misuse of the space bar, and the options of the margins and tabs all add up to make anything you type as varied and unique as the thoughts in your head and the ridges of your fingerprints. Everything you type is a snowflake all its own.
9. You own a typewriter. It has been serviced and works just fine. The ribbon is fresh. You keep the machine out on a table at the correct height, not locked away in a closet still in its case. You have next to it a small stack of stationery and maybe some envelopes. The typewriter is ready and easy to use any time of the day.
10. You really want to bother the other customers at the coffee place.
11. Typewriter = Chick Magnet."
All images ©Typewriters: Iconic Machines from the Golden Age of Mechanical Writing, published by Chronicle Books, 2017.
Love a typewriter? Tell us why these vintage machines appeal to you!
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Irresistible Books for History Buffs
Posted by Hayley on November 13, 2017
Some readers are stuck in the past. Help them feed their obsession with fascinating recommendations from Jones that explore true tales of monarchs and explorers, conquests and politics.
"Life is boundlessly complex, but good history is simple," Jones says. "These eight books, all published in the last decade, cover more than two thousand years of human endeavor, ranging from the rise of the Roman Republic to the election of Donald Trump. What they share is masterful, vivid storytelling by authors totally in command of their material."
Posted by Hayley on November 13, 2017
Dan Jones is the author of The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England and The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors. His latest book, The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors, brings the dramatic history of knights, warriors, bankers, priests, and heretics to life.
Some readers are stuck in the past. Help them feed their obsession with fascinating recommendations from Jones that explore true tales of monarchs and explorers, conquests and politics.
"Life is boundlessly complex, but good history is simple," Jones says. "These eight books, all published in the last decade, cover more than two thousand years of human endeavor, ranging from the rise of the Roman Republic to the election of Donald Trump. What they share is masterful, vivid storytelling by authors totally in command of their material."
What books would you recommend for history fans? Share them with us in the comments!
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Great Books for the Classics Lover
Books That Celebrate the Spirit
Fantastic Books for Fantasy Fanatics
Bone-Chilling Books for Horror Fans
Posted by Hayley on November 13, 2017
Not everyone wants a pleasant story. Have readers on your gift list who prefer chills and thrills? Scare them silly with recommendations from Hill.
"Goodreads asked me to share the 12 books that terrified me most—innocently forgetting that 12 is one short of the devil's lucky number," Hill says. "Here are 13 to thrill, a butcher's dozen to cure you of your need to sleep."
Posted by Hayley on November 13, 2017
Joe Hill is the author of Horns, Heart-Shaped Box, NOS4A2, and The Fireman, last year's Goodreads Choice Award winner for Best Horror. His latest book, Strange Weather, is a collection of four terrifying novellas that explore the darker, weirder side of the imagination.
Not everyone wants a pleasant story. Have readers on your gift list who prefer chills and thrills? Scare them silly with recommendations from Hill.
"Goodreads asked me to share the 12 books that terrified me most—innocently forgetting that 12 is one short of the devil's lucky number," Hill says. "Here are 13 to thrill, a butcher's dozen to cure you of your need to sleep."
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What books would you recommend for horror fans? Share them with us in the comments!
See the complete coverage of our Gift Guide including:
Books That Celebrate the Spirit
Coffee Table Books for Bookworms
Fantastic Books for Fantasy Fanatics
See the complete coverage of our Gift Guide including:
Books That Celebrate the Spirit
Coffee Table Books for Bookworms
Fantastic Books for Fantasy Fanatics
Thought-Provoking Books for the Business-Minded Reader
Posted by Hayley on November 13, 2017
Do you have anyone on your gift list who wants to know how everything works? Help them conquer at least some of their curiosities with these eye-opening recommendations about the art of persuading, the history of Wall Street, and more from Thaler.
"In selecting these books I thought about what readers of Nudge and Misbehaving might want to read next," Thaler says. "Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow is a great companion to Misbehaving—and Kahneman and I have been friends for forty years. The Undoing Project tells the story of Kahneman's friendship with his collaborator Amos Tversky."
"My ringer is a classic by Tom Schelling, an early friend of behavioral economics, on a topic that is unfortunately current."
Posted by Hayley on November 13, 2017
Economist Richard H. Thaler is the author of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness and Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics. This year he received the Nobel Prize in Economics for his contributions to behavioral economics.
"In selecting these books I thought about what readers of Nudge and Misbehaving might want to read next," Thaler says. "Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow is a great companion to Misbehaving—and Kahneman and I have been friends for forty years. The Undoing Project tells the story of Kahneman's friendship with his collaborator Amos Tversky."
"My ringer is a classic by Tom Schelling, an early friend of behavioral economics, on a topic that is unfortunately current."
What books would you recommend to business fans? Share them with us in the comments!
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See the complete coverage of our Gift Guide including:
Great Books for the Classics Lover
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