Essential Reading

There can never be too much laughter in your life, so increase the dosage with some humorous reading. We’ve picked our favorite chuckle-makers for this month’s Essential Reading. Get ready…

We’re focusing on crime, mystery and scary stories in this month’s Essential Reading recommendations. So if you like your reading material with some added tension, thrills or downright hair-raising horror,…

With the back to school season in full swing we asked our staff to recommend their favorites books from that time and got a mixed bag of reads which we…

In honor of Father’s Day, in this month’s Essential Reading we are featuring books by male authors writing about life, parenting, and coming of age.

We are exploring the many colors of mothering with our reading recommendations this month with an “in the trenches” novel that will make you laugh out loud, an anthology of…

This month’s Essential Reading focuses on books for children, including a science and nature picture book, a classic medieval tale, the story of a middle-school social experiment, and a boistorous…

We love reading memoirs for their ‘up close and personal’ look into other people’s lives. This month, we share three of our favorite celebrity memoirs with you.

In honor of Black History Month, we are celebrating the words of Black female writers. Delve into Black womanhood, slavery, and identity—all framed by poetry with our staff recommendations.

If you’re a writer looking to hone your craft, this month’s Essential Reading post includes four reading recommendation that will help you on your way.

There’s nothing like a festive tale to get you in the Christmas mood and this month’s Essential Reading recommendations include a modern spin on a classic holiday story. Check that…

Sometimes a story is so big it can’t be contained in one volume but needs a whole series to allow the plot to unwind. This month we recommend four series…