- December 10, 2025
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century by W. David Marx
Critic and historian W. David Marx has taken the pulse of mass culture and declared it moribund—not quite dead, but nearly so, its complexion bluing as torpor thins the rhythm of its wilted heart. In Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First ...
Read more… - December 3, 2025
Over the past few years, Maine authors have been churning out a high volume of popular and critically acclaimed fiction, and 2025 has been another banner year. In case you didn’t catch wind of all of these new releases, check out our recap of the year below. Many of these novels, mysteries, and short stories ...
Read more… - November 25, 2025
I love a good time loop story, and The Everlasting is one of the best I’ve read. Written in an alternating second person and featuring gorgeous illustrations both within the story and on and inside the cover, this book is a thoughtful experience that will linger in your bones as if you are in your ...
Read more… - November 19, 2025
Yeva, a scientist who has devoted her life to rescuing endangered snails, funds her research by joining a romance tour, where wealthy bachelors from other countries come to Ukraine looking for a wife. Nastiya and Solomiya are sisters also involved in the marriage industry for non-marriage reasons; they are trying to find their activist mother ...
Read more… - October 29, 2025
Halloween is, in my estimation, the reigning queen of all holidays. It has the best snacks – gummy bats! pumpkin whoopie pies! Oreo spiders with pretzel legs! popcorn balls! …ok, so let’s forget about popcorn balls – as well as the best movies, the best decorations, the best commingling of folk tradition and modern-day consumerist ...
Read more… - October 23, 2025
Adam Nevill, author of the uniquely disturbing The House of Small Shadows has written many horror stories, of which I have enjoyed almost all (mostly his older ones), A couple have been made into movies, but as I find most of the time, the books were much better, The Ritual being one example. I actually traded ...
Read more… - October 16, 2025
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology is the perfect read for spooky season! This chilling collection is haunting, eerie, and unsettling in all the best ways. More than once, I had to put it down just to catch my breath—and a few times I even caught myself covering my mouth to keep ...
Read more… - October 8, 2025
It’s spooky season, and PFL staff love a creepy read! Browse the list for some of our newest favorites and current thrills.
The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
Mayra by Nicky Gonzalez
“House of Leaves, if it was set in a Florida Swamp.”
Florida by Lauren Groff
“Every night I brace myself for another unsettling story.”
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
Magpie Murders by Anthony ...
Read more… - September 25, 2025
I recently finished Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, which is a sideways sort of murder mystery with a decidedly animal liberationist flair. Since the main character is a reclusive older woman living alone in a cabin in the Polish forests, it also gets points as a major source of ...
Read more… - September 17, 2025
Compass South is a whirlwind graphic novel following the adventures of self-proclaimed orphans Alex and Cleo. The scrappy yet charming twins hatch a plot to impersonate the lost heirs to the Kimball company fortune and rob Mr. Kimball for all he’s worth. Unfortunately, the plot is almost immediately spoiled when the two run into another ...
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