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The Best Books About Time Travel, From Classics to Modern Favorites

The genre explores some of our most intriguing questions as humans: what our future might look like, and how our history influences our present and...

04.10.2025 10

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Leah Von Essen

The Best Climate-Focused Speculative Fiction

Sci-fi and speculative fiction has long used imagined futures to push us to reflect on present-day challenges.

26.08.2025 3

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The 10 Best Historical Fantasy Books to Read This Summer

These novels blend the substantiated with the surreal, offering new ways to understand the past through magic, monsters and myth.

01.07.2025 4

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10 Excellent Middle-Grade Books That Adults Will Love, Too

These books are short and easy to read but pack an outsized emotional punch. Courtesy the publishers The preteen years are fraught with emotion and...

08.01.2025 6

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11 Short Books to Help You Jumpstart Your 2025 Reading Resolutions

These books will make it easy to meet your Goodreads goals. Courtesy the publishers Every January 1st, we sit down and make resolutions about our...

27.12.2024 4

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