The World, In Her Words: Books to Celebrate Women in Translation Month

August is Women in Translation Month. Launched in 2014, this month-long celebration set out to elevate unique, underrepresented works from around the world, and the women who create them. Independent publishers have been at the forefront of that mission...

Happily Ever Indie: A Read a Romance Month Reading List

August is National Read a Romance Month (not that we need much of an excuse)!

Romance is the best-selling, most-borrowed, most-devoured genre in the country right now — and also the one people still apologize for reading, which we've never...

Disability Pride Month Reading List

Every July, Disability Pride Month marks the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed on July 26, 1990. The word "pride" still surprises people, because the mainstream story about disability tends to get told in the key of...

America 250: Fifteen Books for the Semiquincentennial

This July, America turns 250. It is the kind of anniversary that invites a single, tidy story, the one a lot of us remember from US history lessons in high school. But the founding of America was never just...

Diverse Voices in Genre: 15 Indie Books That Take You Somewhere New

Some of the most exciting crime, romance, science fiction, and horror being written today comes from independent presses, and from authors you'll want to discover before everyone else does. The fifteen books below run from a fishing village in...

The Beautiful Game: A World Cup 2026 Reading List

The World Cup has come to North America! For the first time the tournament is being shared across three countries — Mexico, the United States, and Canada — and for a month, the whole planet...