Early Bird Books Reading Recommendations

October is the perfect month to visit Washington Irving's favorite town—and the setting for his spine tingling short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Dr. Jeremy Noel-Tod on five must-read books by Ted Hughes.

Re-living these scary ghost stories gave us the creeps. Just kidding, it was awesome.

We forged through books, TV, and movies to bring you a list of the best prequels out there.

In "Miss Marple vs. The Mansplainers," Alice Bolin salutes Agatha Christie's feminist detective hero.

Head to the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains to tour an important town for four major American writers.

These genre-bending reads are both horrifying and fantastical.

"If you're still having sex, you can save the marriage."

These paperbacks deserve to be judged by their covers.

Let these words of wisdom from Pat Conroy, William Styron, Natalie Goldberg, and others inspire you to finish that book.

Buckle in for these action-packed thrillers that are not for the faint of heart.

Read what anthropologist and author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has to say right meow!

Fire up the coals for a couple of recipes from The Complete Book of Outdoor Cookery.

Pigs that drink coffee, aliens who eat planets—things are about to get crazy.

Before squad goals, there were sidekicks.

The acclaimed writer of Chaos shares a handful of nonfiction works that have inspired his own.

The British sci-fi author shares a dark delicacy with a twist you won't see coming.

Horror writer Jonathan Ryan shares how he uses his Christian faith to inspire, but not define, his writing.

Every month, renowned authors pick a story from the magazine’s archives to read aloud and discuss—with hilarious results.

Eileen Goudge takes us behind her writing of Trail of Secrets!