With the advent of streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV+ we’re currently experiencing a kind of Golden Age for book-to-screen adaptations. Television and film have long looked to the book world for source material, but in recent years the sheer number of adaptations is astounding.   For us book nerds,...

The Halloween horror movie season is upon us, and the theaters are filled with options. But serious book people can tell you: For a really terrifying experience, nothing beats a good horror novel.   It's a head-game thing. A skilled novelist can turn your own imagination against you, encouraging you to imagine horrors...

Do you like it darker?   If so, today’s collection is for you. In honor of Halloween reading season, we’ve prepared another installment of our semi-regular and oddly popular Dark & Twisty series, designed for those seeking a moody and atmospheric kind of reading experience.   It’s all about the vibe with this collection....

In our ongoing effort to provide the ultimate Halloween reading experience, we’ve decided to try something a little different. We’ve pulled out a bevy of new books from 2024 that feature traditional scary story creatures. Vampires. Ghosts. Demons. The usual suspects.   To our delight, we uncovered tons of creature feature...

Spend enough time on this planet and random questions will gradually surface in the brain. Who invented the window? Why are oranges orange? And what are the 60 most popular books on Goodreads over the past five years?   We’re here to tackle that last question with today’s collection of the 60 top books published in...

Here at Goodreads World Headquarters, we sort through a lot of books each month. Our monthly Readers' Most Anticipated Books feature is exactly that—selections based on the data about the books that Goodreads members are placing on their Want to Read shelves. Essentially, these are the books that your fellow Goodreads regulars are...