We live in pretty scary times. COVID-19 has spread across the world, unsettling the daily lives of millions of people. At the same time, many readers have turned to, well, reading more, maybe due to being stuck at home. Oddly enough, many fiction fans have also started to search for the best pandemic books to…
Can you believe it’s been over a decade since the last Harry Potter book came out? Sure, J.K. Rowling has tried to keep the magic alive with Fantastic Beasts, as well as the Cursed Child play – but I feel it’s just not the same. The cultural impact of books like Harry Potter is truly…
What are the best Dean Koontz books for beginners? Despite what his detractors say, I think Koontz has actually written some really solid thriller / horror novels over his long career. To date, Koontz has churned out more than 105 novels – with sales above 450 million! That’s nothing to scoff at. Of course, being…
My addiction to the alien invasion sub-genre began as a teenager when I first read H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. I’ll be honest. Overall, I loved the book – but thought the ending was an anti-climax. Nonetheless, the 19th century novel has been duly credited as a major source of inspiration for…
As a child of the 80s (into the 90s), I was obsessed with getting my hands on the best Choose Your Own Adventure books I could find. Back then, these simple yet innovative gamebooks were such an imaginative thrill! In short, Choose Your Own Adventure books play out like readable video games (even before the…
One of the best dystopian novels of all-time, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 shows us a future American society where books are outlawed and burnt. The title refers to the temperature in which novels catch fire, when knowledge and literature turn to ash. For many, fiction books like Fahrenheit 451 remind us how real-life government oppression…
Great Scott! Since enjoying Back to the Future as a kid, I’ve loved the idea of time travel. And, to feed my science fiction addiction, I’ve made it a point to read some of the best time travel books over many years. Here a list of 20+ of my favorite books about time travel! Some…
Pop culture has gone heavy on ‘Vampire Romance’. By this I mean the modern recasting of vampires from the outright monsters of old – such as Dracula and Nosferatu – to relatable immortal creatures who are as attractive as they are dangerous. Books like Twilight & The Vampire Diaries are prime examples of this shift;…