Recs if you like Lost Children Archive...

All of his picks since 2008, both summer reading lists and yearly round-ups.

sometimes they're running to something, sometimes they're running from something, sometimes they're just running.

Elena Ferrante, the bestselling pseudonymous Italian author behind My Brilliant Friend, has named her favourite 40 books by female authors around the world.

2019-2026

an ode to the great american road trip novel. sometimes thrilling, sometimes terrifying, usually at least somewhat entertaining.

A book club where storytelling is at it’s heart. To feel for characters in stories as we might for ourselves or our friends.

This is the list from The Atlantic. "In 1868, a little-known writer by the name of John William DeForest proposed a new type of literature, a collective artistic project for a nation just emerging from an existential conflict: a work of fiction that accomplished “the task of painting the American soul.” It would be called the Great American Novel, and no one had written it yet, DeForest admitted. Maybe soon."

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize, inaugurated in 2006, is the first and only annual U.S. literary award recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace. The Dayton Literary Peace Prize invites nominations in adult fiction and nonfiction books published within the past year that have led readers to a better understanding of other cultures, peoples, religions, and political points of view.

fiction edition finalists

Pretty specific to what I have left, but could be useful to you if you're doing HRCYED 3. If you have questions on what prompt something is going to just leave a comment.

All the books selected by Betsy and Ben for the Off Color Book Club at the Mousetrap in Chicago

Children in the title