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hat is to come but makes her choices and lives her life in a magnificently described world le guin s version of pre roman italy is the version i now imagine whenever i read the aeneid read about the other entries on the list marshal zeringue posted by marshal zeringue at 12 05 am sunday august 16 2026 five romance novels with teacher leads alison doherty is a writing teacher and part time assistant professor living in brooklyn new york she has an mfa from the new school in writing for children and teenagers she loves writing about books on the internet listening to audiobooks on the subway and reading anything with a twisty plot or a happily ever after at book riot she tagged five favorite teacher romance novels featuring flirty banter over the school copy machine longing glances over finger painting happily ever afters for the people who deserve them most and absolutely no romances with students one title on the list the love simulation by etta easton etta is a dedicated middle school vice principal who joins a six week mars simulation to compete for a cash prize she needs to upgrade the school library when science teacher roman joins her team at first she thinks he must be there to sabotage her chances they ve had an occasionally flirtatious frenemy relationship all year and he s the son of her football obsessed principal but day by day he proves how dedicated he is to this project and the school and the feelings and attraction between them are definitely growing but etta still can t shake the feeling that this cute science teacher is hiding something from her this book is perfect for any romance readers who wanted to go to space camp and i personally loved reading about a female vice principal read about the other entries on the list marshal zeringue posted by marshal zeringue at 12 05 am saturday august 15 2026 twelve historical mysteries that make the past feel dangerously alive oprah daily tagged historical fiction titles that use mystery not merely to decorate history but to interrogate it asking whose secrets were protected whose stories were suppressed and what the past can reveal when someone finally starts asking the right questions one novel on the list hall of mirrors by john copenhaver the lavender scare of the 1950s during which gay men and women were targeted by j edgar hoover s fbi as un american led to countless tragedies lost jobs lost loved ones and lost lives copenhaver employs the noir atmosphere of the time to great effect in his second installment in his nightingale and watson series lovers philippa and judy struggle to find out who set the fire that killed their friend roger while also struggling to keep their relationship strong and loving in the face of government and societal threats including the danger philippa s black family faces due to her ability to pass as white bethanne patrick read about the other historical mysteries on the list marshal zeringue posted by marshal zeringue at 12 05 am friday august 14 2026 ten chilling slasher novels alaina urquhart is the 1 new york times bestselling author of the dr wren muller series which has been published internationally in over twenty languages when she isn t writing she is also the cohost of the chart topping podcast morbid and an autopsy technician by trade the latest dr wren muller novel is the butcher legacy at people magazine urquhart tagged ten summer slashers that are meant to be read with the porch light on one title on the list slasher summer by e l chen this is the newest entry into my favorite summer slasher reads and it delivers at every turn slasher summer follows a group of seven friends with real midnight society vibes reuniting in their sleepy lakeside hometown of cedar lake falls the reunion takes place at a secluded cabin in the woods that served as the primary filming location for the cult classic horror flick slasher with a setting like that nothing could go wrong right wrong a masked killer crashes their reunion and the campy slasher energy flows right in with them it s fast paced tense and includes nods to some of the best slasher films we all know and love with slasher summe r e l chen has made a self aware homage to the genre that you should read with the light on read about the other novels on the list marshal zeringue posted by marshal zeringue at 12 05 am thursday august 13 2026 seven historical novels set during revolutions at book riot julia rittenberg tagged seven historical novels set during revolutions including book of sands by karim alrawi during the arab spring protests in cairo tarek and his daughter neda are faced with numerous difficult choices tarek thinks deeply about what it means to look towards an uncertain future and how they came to be in their current situation alrawi s style and fabulism communicate how difficult it was to live through such a revolutionary upheaval read about the other books on the list marshal zeringue posted by marshal zeringue at 12 05 am wednesday august 12 2026 eight titles that puncture the myths of silicon valley claire stapleton is a writer communications consultant and tech labor activist she began her career at google where she spent 12 years in a variety of influential communications marketing and executive ghostwriting roles before co organizing the google walkout in 2018 in which 20 000 employees loudly protested the company s mishandling of sexual harassment stapleton now advises executives and organizations on navigating the complicated communications landscape speaks and writes frequently about tech worker issues and publishes an existential advice column for tech workers on substack her new book is don t be evil bad bosses fake promises and my escape from big tech at lit hub stapleton tagged the eight books that most shaped my understanding of silicon valley that has become the air we all breathe and increasingly choke on one title on the list from counterculture to cyberculture by fred turner fred turner is my goat no one has done more to explain silicon valley s founding mythology or to show how the industry has rendered the material consequences of its power strangely invisible turner has pointed out that santa clara county the heart of silicon valley is among the most polluted places in america while roughly a quarter of local families experience food insecurity neither fact squares with the paradise the valley tells about itself at the center of the book is stewart brand founder of the whole earth catalog and a mythological figure in valley lore immortalized by steve jobs s stay hungry stay foolish stanford commencement address turner shows how brand and his countercultural contemporaries transformed the computer from a symbol of military bureaucracy into an emblem of personal freedom and self expression that moral vocabulary became silicon valley s native language google didn t just organize information it empowered people facebook didn t harvest attention it connected humanity ai companies aren t merely building products they re democratizing intelligence the genius and danger of that worldview is that it recasts political problems as engineering problems turner gave me a framework for understanding how a profoundly anti institutional ethos took hold one that treated democratic institutions as obstacles to be bulldozed on the way to cyber utopia read about the other entries on the list marshal zeringue posted by marshal zeringue at 12 05 am tuesday august 11 2026 five top titles about chess players allison saft is the 1 new york times bestselling author of wings of starlight a dark and drowning tide a far wilder magic and other romantic fantasy novels her work has won a scribe award and has been translated into over ten languages she holds an ma in english literature from tulane university and teaches creative writing at wilkes university in her free time she practices aerial circus arts she lives in west virginia with her partner and an italian greyhound named marzipan saft s new novel is immortal game at the nerd daily the author tagged five of her favorite books about chess players one title on the list bobby fischer goes to war how a lone american star defeated the soviet chess machine by david edmonds and john eidinow bobby fischer goes to war was hands down my favorite book i read while researching immortal game it s breezily written and a lot of fun even if you don t play chess it tells the bizarre engrossing and incredibly dramatic story of the 1972 world chess championship it also paints sympathetic nuanced portraits of the two competitors bobby fischer and boris spassky both of whom were complicated men and both of whom faced enormous pressure going into the match the book captures something meaningful about the cold war era chess history and the price of brilliance read about the other entries on the list also see k w colyard s list books like the queen s gambit that prove chess is far from boring and aisling twomey s list of seven books for fans of the queen s gambit marshal zeringue posted by marshal zeringue at 12 05 am monday august 10 2026 six humorous mystery novels gloria chao is a usa today bestselling author and a screenwriter her novels include the mortal enemy murder club the ex girlfriend murder club ex marks the spot when you wish upon a lantern rent a boyfriend our wayward fate and american panda she graduated from mit and became a dentist before realizing she d rather spend her days in fictional characters heads instead of real people s mouths when she s not writing you can find her on the curling ice where she and her husband are world ranked in mixed doubles the page 69 test american panda the page 69 test when you wish upon a lantern at crimereads chao tagged six humorous mysteries that i have loved ranging from laugh out loud funny to more subtle humor one title on the list emma mills rachel west and the fallen starlet when rachel s celebrity friend molly is found dead she s the only one who knows she didn t die of an overdose like everyone claims and she s going to have to prove it this book was filled with humor and banter all while feeling like you re living inside a magazine getting the celebrity gossip first you ll be sucked into this fun ride immediately and kept guessing until the end read about the other mysteries on chao s list at crimereads marshal zeringue posted by marshal zeringue at 12 05 am sunday august 9 2026 seven memoirs about discovering close relatives late in life bk kate jackson is an author developmental editor book coach and a journalist with bylines in huffpost the los angeles times the sun whale road review hippocampus magazine wired and more she earned a ba and an ma from ucla jackson is the editor of the anthology relative strangers inheritance identity and the meaning of family and the founder and editor of severance a magazine and community for adoptees and individuals who ve discovered misattributed parentage she also has a substack about writing with adhd at electric lit jackson tagged seven memoirs that take readers deep into the mind bending and sometimes shattering experience of discovering close family late in life one title on the list long live the tribe of fatherless girls by t kira madden t kira madden s memoir is a funny fierce and heartbreaking story of coming of age as a queer biracial glorious misfit in a complex family in boca raton florida it s impossible to pin down a theme because the book is in the best of all possible ways all over the place it s about addiction acceptance rejection desire privilege trauma violence identity and the families we re born into and the families we choose her voice as a memoirist renders the narrator as indelible as the most memorable of fictional characters and while her girlhood may not be remotely typical it is universal in ways that will resonate with all readers like the narrators of each of these seven memoirs madden finds unexpected close family in her case when a dna test unspools her mother s secrets the revelation is the coda to her memoir suggesting that families are like glaciers with much remaining invisible and inaccessible deep below the surface read about the other entries on jackson s list at electric lit marshal zeringue posted by marshal zeringue at 12 05 am saturday august 8 2026 six top sff books about gods and demons lyndsie manusos s fiction has appeared in pank smokelong quarterly and other publications she holds an mfa from the school of the art institute of chicago and has worked in web production and content management when she s not nesting among her books and rough drafts she s chasing the baby while the dog watches in confused amusement she lives with her family in a suburb of indianapolis at book riot she tagged six of the best science fiction and fantasy books about gods and demons including the sea hides its dead by megan bontrager let s get a little cultish orbit s imprint run for it which focuses more on horror and dark sff has been one of my favorite imprints to dive into as of late the sea hides its dead really encompasses both gods and demons in a post apocalyptic world where the northeast is suddenly doused with an immovable unquenchable storm caro is asked by her professor and lover to accompany him to a stone monolith that suddenly appeared offshore suddenly caro the professor and other crew members become trapped in what is supposedly the dwelling place of the cult of the leviathan and its god and soon they find out they re not alone this story certainly leans more toward horror but the dystopian near future the author created is fascinating as is the mysterious and horrific mythos of the cult of the leviathan read about the other titles on the list marshal zeringue posted by marshal zeringue at 12 05 am older posts home subscribe to posts atom share dining with bacchus subscribe to lit lists posts atom posts all comments atom all comments the cftar network campaign for the american reader writers read the 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