Get ready for a festive holiday season with this new Christmas Books 2025 guide! Romance, Fiction, YA, Mystery - every genre ...

Below is a summary of Sandwich by Catherine Newman, a review, a character guide, and an explanation of the ending. Sandwich ...

The Harry Potter books may be the series that started the trend of books with magical schools for kids, but it is not the ...

The 2026 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 have always loved mysteries. If you have followed Jackie and me for a while, you will know that The Westing Game has always been one of my favorite books. In recent years, there have been so many ...

The Lunar Chronicles is a YA fairy-tale retelling/sci-fi series that I read and loved. With its popularity came a prequel novella, a short story, and two graphic novels. I wanted to make a list of the ...

In addition to in-person and virtual speaking events, Jackie and Kirsten have contributed to podcasts and articles. A sampling of their media appearances can be found below. Today, I am joined by ...

Each colorful block below represents the best book in a subgenre. Click on the arrow to reveal my “best” pick in any category. You’ll also be able to use a page jump to see more books in that section.

Looking for the November 2025 Celebrity Book Club Spoilers? You’ve come to the right place! For years, I’ve worked with sources in the book industry to bring you these spoilers before they are ...

Kirsten and I noticed that family inheritance novels have become a popular subgenre of books in the last few years. We have become a little bit obsessed. These books have it all, and I wanted to put ...

Jackie and I created the summer reading challenges in 2021, when we kept hearing people say they didn’t know what to read. The pandemic was starting to fade out, but everyone’s reading habits were ...

The last seasonal reading challenge to launch here at Beyond the Bookends was our spring reading challenge, which launched in 2023. But don’t let the final roll-out fool you, the spring reading ...