Books

Each month, the Bustle Book Club asks an author to recommend a book they think everyone should read. In May, Little Fires Everywhere author Celeste Ng recommended Red Clocks by Leni Zumas. Follow along with the book club on Bustle and join the…

After eight long years of waiting, HBO finally revealed the winner of the Iron Throne in Sunday night's Game of Thrones series finale — but readers still don't know what will happen in the books. I've got nine theories about how the new Game of…

There are many career options in publishing — just some of which include book editor, literary agent, book scout, audiobook producer, and book cover designer, but book marketer might be one of the most highly coveted positions. Book marketers are…

Want to know the best way to stuff your vacation full of as many wonderful stories as possible? Spend your summer reading a few of the new short story collections I've picked out for you on this list. Each of these collections packs plenty of great…

Next year is bringing with it plenty of fantastic debuts, and Bustle is happy to give you an exclusive look at one of them today. Crissy Van Meter's Creatures is a lyrical, literary debut that you'll want on your TBR when it comes to stores next…

When Kali Fajardo-Anstine learned that Julia Alvarez had endorsed her debut short story collection, Sabrina & Corina, her knees buckled. A few days later, when she discovered that Sandra Cisneros had also praised the book, she wept. "I always was a…

At the beginning of the film adaptation of Nicola Yoon's young adult novel The Sun is Also a Star, Natasha, played by Yara Shahidi, says, "I thought it would take me a lifetime to understand the human heart. All it took was a single day." It's that…

Hulu won the hearts of many literary lovers with the release of their critically acclaimed series adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Now, they're back with the book-to-screen adaptation of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It's probably…

If you've read Joseph Heller's 1961 military satire Catch-22, it's likely been a few years. And now that the novel has been adapted for TV — out Friday, May 17 on Hulu — audiences may be scrambling to recall what exactly happened. Thankfully,…

As I sit here writing this, just hours away from moving half-way across the country, my own bookshelves look remarkably similar to cardboard boxes. (Because they are.) But prior to The Great Book Boxing Up Of 2019, I had some time to consider how to…

In the book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, there is a much-referenced prophecy about Azor Ahai, a magical person who is meant to emerge from the chaos, satisfy a few cryptic requirements, and take down the Big Bad, freeing everyone from an eternity…

For as long as there have been fairy tales, there have also existed more sinister legends, like those about changelings, creatures left in the place of human babies in the moments when their parents look away or close their eyes for a brief moment.…

It's a huge year for the rom-com anniversary. Many beloved films from the '90s and early 2000's, including 10 Things I Hate About and 13 Going on 30 are celebrating major milestones this year. The latest film to join the nostalgia party is the 1999…

There is something so undeniably compelling about the pomp and circumstance (and, yes, the romance) of royalty, but it can be hard not to feel a bit burned out by the headlines at times. Between the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle last…

As she was writing the first draft of what would eventually become her debut novel, Hafsah Faizal couldn’t make it past the first act. There wasn’t anything ostensibly wrong with what she was doing. She was writing a young adult fantasy about a…

The author of one of 2018's best-selling books is set to release a follow-up this year. Michael Wolff is publishing a sequel to Fire and Fury this summer. The new book, titled Siege: Trump Under Fire, comes out on June 4 from Fire and Fury publisher…

The Philadelphia School District is one of the largest in the nation. It serves around 134,000 students, yet only seven of 200+ schools have libraries staffed with certified full-time librarians. But things are changing: For the last 15 years, the…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that having a body can be hard. It can be nearly impossible to escape body image messages about how you should look, what you should eat, when and how you should exercise, and what kind of all of the above is…

With just one episode left in Game of Thrones's run on HBO, A Song of Ice and Fire fans will be without new fandom material from May 19, 2019 until The Winds of Winter comes out. Has George R.R. Martin already written the last Game of Thrones books?…