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For your next book club meeting, liven up the conversation with these fun and thought-provoking book club questions For book lovers, there’s nothing more exciting than learning someone has read the ...

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June 30, 2026 • Paul Tremblay has made a career of pushing the horror genre in new directions. This time, a woman must use a video-game-like controller to get a man, stuck in a vegetative state, ...

June 23, 2026 • Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.

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The book club was founded in 2017 and centers books with women-led narratives Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. Reese ...

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