Fall brings changing leaves to the trees and chilly nights to curl up with a good book. Which tree (and books) are most suited to you? Take the quiz to find out!
We are surrounded by death. It's in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we're told that death is something to be feared. A dazzling work of cultural criticism, All the Living and the Dead weaves together reportage with memoir, history, and philosophy to offer readers a fascinating look into the psychology of Western death.
Beneath the streets of York, the goblin market calls to the Wickett women—the family of witches that tends to its victims. Knowing the dangers, they never entered the market—until May Wickett fell for a goblin girl and had to flee. 17 years later, Lou, May's niece, knows nothing of her magical lineage or the twisted streets, sweet fruits, and incredible jewels of the goblin market. But just like her aunt, the market calls to her, an echo of a curse that won't release its hold on her family.
Hop-Hornbeam
Like the hop-hornbeam, which symbolizes ornamentation, you revel in descriptive diction and tasteful decoration. Browse our hop-hornbeam books to enrich you physical and mental spaces.
Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds.
New York Times bestselling author Myquillyn Smith provides the simple rules to decorate by in this charming, definitive guidebook for hesitant decorators to move from "stuck" to "done."
Dorothy has done everything a woman in the early 20th century should not: she has divorced her husband—so scandalous—and established America's first interior design firm. Brimming with daring, unconventional ideas and with her beloved company's future hanging in the balance, Dorothy has one last chance to give her dreams wings or succumb to what society tells her is her inescapable fate.
Sassafras
Like admirers of the sassafras tree, you appreciate things with hidden worth. Check out one of these overlooked gems to give you some succor.
Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. All across the boroughs, strange things are happening. Something is threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.
Sol has disappeared. Their Earth-born wife Lumi sets out to find them, but it's no simple feat: Each clue uncovers another enigma. Told through letters and extracts, the course of Lumi's journey takes her not only from the affluent colonies of Mars to the devastated remnants of Earth, but into the hidden depths of Sol's past and the long-forgotten secrets of her own.
Kiese Laymon’s debut novel is a Twain-esque exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in Post-Katrina Mississippi, written in a voice that’s alternately funny, lacerating, and wise. The book contains two interwoven stories centering teenager City Coldson. City’s two stories ultimately converge in the mysterious work shed behind his grandmother’s, where he discovers the key to a local teen’s disappearance.
Sweet Gum
Like the sweet gum, which is associated with spells and subtlety, you admire a clever plot and a dash of magic. These sweet gum-inspired books feature sneaks, illusions, and secrets.
The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Armed with a love toughened by adversity and a stick of chalk that can conjure light from the darkness and hope from the hopeless, Iz and Warren Wilby are ready for whatever springs from the alleys, graves, and shadows next.
Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first.
Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
Redbud
Like the redbud, you are adaptable and supportive. Try one of our redbud-inspired novels for stories about community and fitting in.
As David Brooks observes, "There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood." How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection and yearning to be understood.
When widower Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, librarian Aleisha passes along the reading list...hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles—and find joy again.
Earl 'Trey' Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. In the city, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that change his life forever. Along the way, Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships—all while seeking the meaning of life in the midst of so much death.
Plum
Like the plum tree, which symbolizes fidelity, you believe in true love and friends forever. Romances and "nomances" alike can be found for plum tree readers.
William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is an exceptional story about quests—for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love—that's thrilling and timeless for readers of all ages.
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads, "Burn before reading." Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt grows into something more. Something romantic. Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them.
Successful romance author Gaia Anders has a secret: Anything she dreams at night is magically written into her bestselling novels. Workaholic businessman Jacob Scott has had a crush on his brother's best friend, Gaia, since forever—but he never expected to literally share her dreams. Soon, they're facing hard truths about who they are and what they're running from. And the only way to break this curse is realizing true love's real-life power.
All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, An Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries
Not Good for Maidens
The Book Eaters
House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget
The Grand Design: A Novel of Dorothy Draper
The City We Became
The Moonday Letters
Long Division: A Novel
The Hexologists
Six of Crows
The Night Circus: A Novel
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
This Is How You Lose the Time War
And They Lived Happily Ever After