The Book Shire

Fiction

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

"IΒ hadn'tΒ thought of evil as being without color but it is. Once you get past plain everyday wickedness, theΒ color is squeezed right out of it. Evil [...]

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling

I adore Mindy Kaling. Not because she's a fantastic actress, which she is, or even because she is hilarious, which, again, she is. No, I adore Mindy because [...]

Guy in Real Life by Steve Brezenoff

From the second you look at its pixelated cover, it becomes clear that Steve Brezenoff's novel, Guy in Real Life, is for gamers. With alternating POVs that [...]

Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira

What do Kurt Cobain, Amelia Earhart and Heath Ledger all have in common? They're dead, for starters, and therefore they're perfect for spilling your secrets [...]

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

A good mystery can keep anyone up late into the night. In fact, some of my earliest reading memories are of reading Mary Higgins Clark's Daddy's Little Girl, [...]

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

A bookstore piled high with indecipherable volumes. A high-tech animated boob designer obsessed with fantasy. A Googler obsessed with immortality. A [...]

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Fan Fiction is a tricky subject. There are authors who vehemently oppose it - stating that it's a breach of copyright, that it violates an author's ownership [...]

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

It's true that "pain demands to be felt." It's also true that a great novel demands to be read. Such is the way of John Green's incredible YA novel, [...]

Every Day by David Levithan

It's always refreshing when I read a book that's compelling, original, off-the-beaten-path. The kind of book that sucks me in so that I'm inhaling the story [...]