Retreat by Random House

Celebrities! They’re just like us. They love books! Take Sarah Jessica Parker for instance, reviewing Anthony Marra’s debut novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena for Entertainment Weekly. Or Seth Meyers telling Glamour magazine that he’s reading Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs. Or Adrian Grenier attending the book launch for Meghan Telpner’s UnDiet! Celebrity bookworms are [...]

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In fiction, just like in real life, there are all kinds of different mothers, all mothering in their own styles. So when I read Just What Kind of Mother Are You?, I got to thinking, what other mothers could I think of in thrillers? So I came up with this (by no means exhaustive list). [...]

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It’s not often that you read a debut novel that blows you away. Anthony Marra has written such a debut novel. It’s receiving tons of praise and comparisons to Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated. Don’t just take my word for it, read the glowing review on the Chapters-Indigo blog. This book is getting so [...]

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Coming up with books for your mom can be tough. We hear that! We thought we could help by recognizing that moms can come in all shapes and sizes when it comes to their personalities and reading tastes. So check out the iconic women below and see if you can find the one (or ones) [...]

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Welcome to the Retreat Book Club! We’re a fun, informal group who meets digitally 4 times a year to discuss great books. Click here to join in the fun and be sure to come back on June 25 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Eastern time because next we’ll be chatting with Linwood Barclay about [...]

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If I wrote a book and that book later got adapted into a movie, you’d better believe I’d be hanging around the set as much as possible and trying to meet the actors. And, if one were offered, I wouldn’t say no to making a cameo appearance. These nine author cameos show that I’d be [...]

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Before others even see the titles of the books you have on your shelf, they see the bookends that you’ve chosen to hold those books up. Do you have the plain, utilitarian metal ones or do you have something fancy? Something that hints at the substance of the collection between the two ends? We’ve compiled [...]

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It’s coming up on summer and one of the things I’m looking forward to is taking my reading outdoors. We’ve put together this gallery of beautiful outdoor reading areas to get you as excited as I am for the warm weather that has to be coming our way any day now.

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Have you ever read a description for a book that just seems too strange but you read the book anyways and afterwards think: “That was the best weird book I’ve ever read!”? Clearly I have so I thought I’d put together a small list of really weird books that I thought wouldn’t work but it [...]

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Sometimes reading young adult fiction can be a good escape from working, cooking, all the day-to-day tasks of being an adult. And sometimes you just want to read a book where a young heroine kicks ass. So, after you’ve read The Hunger Games trilogy, what do you read next? Here are our suggestions. They range [...]

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