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

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

It is funny that sometimes reading one book in a very niche genre leads to a landslide of books in that same niche. That is what happened to me! I knew I wanted to make a list of novels set in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...