Thoughtful Partita book club questions for Barbara Kingsovler's newest novel, covering music, ambition, and loss, plus a free printable discussion guide.

If you are looking for Peck & Peck book club questions for your next book club, I have everything you need, including a ...

The 2027 Reading Challenge is here! This will be the 9th reading challenge since Jackie and I started Beyond the Bookends. We love seeing how much the challenge has grown and how much all of you have ...

There have been so many WWII novels over the years (dare I say too many?), but my personal favorites are ones that focus on love stories because they represent hope in the face of the darkest evil.

I noticed a trend this year that I love. Some of the best books I read were books with child narrators. These are adult books told from a child’s perspective, rather then books intended for children ...

Louse Penny is a master of mystery. Her plotlines are brilliant, and her characters are memorable. The Black Wolf is the twentieth book in the Three Pines series and the second in a two-book story arc ...

Every year, Kirsten and I love to find new ways to celebrate books and summer. This year, we knew books set on an island would be such a fun list of books to read. There were so many to choose from, ...

Kirsten and I recently had a discussion about speculative fiction novels and what constitutes speculative fiction. It turns out that this is a long-running debate in the literary community. We wanted ...