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A smiling Brooke Averick in a striped halter top is pictured in front of a collage of colorful book covers including Female Fantasy, Crescent City, and Interesting Facts About Space.

Brooke Averick’s Ultimate Escapist Reading List

The books the internet personality, podcaster and (now) author comes back to most are the ones that let her lose herself for a while.
By Brooke Averick
A collage of contemporary books by women arranged in a tilted grid, featuring covers including Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, Strange Heart Beating, My Year of Rest and Relaxation and The Last Sane Woman, with muted tones punctuated by bright pink typography and surreal imagery.

Violent Femmes: Must-Read Books by Women That Foreground Brutal Beauty

A new wave of authors is mining the territory between brilliance and ugliness to produce some of the most adventurous and emotionally unsparing literature being written today.
By Adam Steiner
A seated dark-haired woman in a sparkly pink dress sits with her chin on her hand in a pink room with disco balls of varying sizes scattered on the floor

Jennifer Wright on Mamie Fish, TikTok Tradwives and the Return of Gilded Excess

Wright draws a tidy line from Newport's grand soirees to the high gloss of today’s influencer culture, where attention still functions as currency.
By Jasmine Lobe
An image of a collage of book covers featuring various 2025 nonfiction titles, including Y2K, Everything Must Go, On Air, Fail Better, Lorne, and Warhol’s Muses, arranged at different angles for a dynamic layout.

12 New Non-Fiction Books You Need to Read in 2025

By Nathan Smith
A collage of book covers

The Must-Read Art Books to Pick Up This Fall

By Nadja Sayej
A collage of book covers

The Best Books About Serial Killers, Real and Imagined

By Lisa Levy

Review: Author Kathleen Hale’s ‘Slenderman’ Skillfully Takes on a Teen Creepy-Pasta Inspired Stabbing Case

By Nathan Smith
troubled teen

The Multi-Billion Dollar ‘Troubled Teen’ Industry Is Getting a True-Crime Reckoning

By Andy Hirschfeld

The Must-Reads of 2019’s National Book Awards Shortlist

By Lauren LeBlanc
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Fall Preview 2018: Everything You Need to Watch, Hear, See, Read and Experience This Season

By Observer Culture Staff
Why can’t watching TV be just as educational as reading a book?

Are Books Superior to TV?

By Melissa Chu
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