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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

One of the things Jackie and I are known for is our seasonal reading challenges – the fall reading challenges below! Released at the start of each new season, we work hard to come up with fun and ...

Every year in the fall, Jackie and I start thinking about back-to-school books. This year, we were shocked that we had not made a list of the best novels about teachers, and knew we had to give you a ...

I love to read books set in tropical locations. In the summer, I feel like I am there and in the winter, these books make me forget about the cold. I wanted to put together a list of my favorite books ...

The Read with Jenna Book Club List 2025 is a complete list of Jenna Bush Hager’s book picks for 2025. I wanted to make this list to see how the book choices change and evolve from year to year. I have ...