The September Crush Pile Every month our mailbox delivers something worth talking about. The Crush Pile is where those books land, a quick look at what arrived, why it caught our eye, and why it might deserve a spot on your radar too. This month’s pile brought us Time-Traveling Chickens: […]
Author Interview: Legally Yours, Violet Lopez by Elba Luz Legally Yours, Violet Lopez follows a high-achieving Latina student with a near-perfect record defending her peers against the disciplinary board who gets blackmailed into taking the one case she specifically refused. Enemies to lovers, class tension, and a protagonist who will […]
Audiobook Review: Meet Me in the Garden by Nina LaCour A Book of the Month Club pick, featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and earning starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly, Meet Me in the Garden is the book that Nina LaCour’s readers have been waiting for since she […]
Young Adult New Releases September 22nd 2026 There is nothing like the big fall release season and we are eager for our favs to drop…like Sabaa Tahir’s Empire, the final book in the Heir duology! There is something for everyone today, check out most of the new YA books below. […]
Blog Tour & Feature: Demonology for Overachievers by Lily Anderson I started following Lily Anderson back when we were both in the Bay Area. My book club at the time went to one of her launch events, which was also close to the beginning of my own blogging journey. She was […]
Author Interview: Night of Madness by Ryan Douglass Mara is a horror fan whose only fond memories of her dad involve his favorite filmmaker, Jack Stanley, and when Stanley announces a contest sending five teen influencers to spend the night on the set of his most terrifying film, Mara engineers her way […]
Book Recommendations: Her Name in the Sky & This Must Be the Place by Kelly Quindlen As many readers probably know, it is #SapphicSeptember, and we read Queer All Year, but we can do some special shoutout recommendations. Having been fans of Kelly Quindlen since She Drives Me Crazy landed […]
YA New Releases September 15th 2026 Another week to usher in a whole bunch of YA New Releases! We are full throttle ahead with Fall releases and thrillers and all the big books are hitting the shelves! We hope that if you plan to grab any recent titles from our […]
Cover Crush: Foreigners by E.L. Shen The cover of Foreigners by E.L. Shen is striking from across a room, and definitely caught my eye when I pulled it out of the package it came in. Bold red background, yellow outlined title running vertically down the right side, and two characters […]
Feature: Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez came out in 2001, which means it arrived at a moment when queer YA was not a genre so much as a handful of books that had to fight to exist. Three high school seniors, three different relationships to […]