11 books, Mystery, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, True Crime, Memoir, Young Adult, and more, set in the desert. 🐪 Which will you read?
Award Winning
The Tainted Cup: Brilliant Fantasy Murder Mystery with Holmesian Flair
A spoiler-free review of The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, a Hugo Award–winning fantasy murder mystery featuring a Holmes-style detective duo, immersive world-building, and layered political intrigue.
Dive Into These 12 Exciting Books Set At Sea
Why? Stories set at sea face unique environmental challenges, an excellent setting for many genres from romance to thriller, adventure to historical fiction.
Enrich Your Reading List With 11 Award Winning Books
Level up your TBR. Read a book that won an award! Each of the 11 books in this list has won an award. Learn more about the awards and the books that won them.🏅
Book Review: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A stark review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road—a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of survival, love, and bleak beauty. Is it worth the hype? Find out.
18 Women Who Won the Nobel Prize for Literature
Of the 121 Nobel Laureates in Literature, only 18 women have been awarded. Here are the female winners by year, why they won, and a book by the author.
Book Review: Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go is written like a memoir, but through vignettes of a person’s life calls humanity into question. You’ll be haunted by the echoes for a long time