Chapter 16
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Real Bones, Real Person, Not a Myth, Not a Story

In Bryn Chancellor’s Sycamore, a small town reckons with the eruption of a long-buried mystery

…one girl has come to embody the force of instability in their lives. Seventeen-year-old Jess Winters has in fact vanished—her fate never explained or resolved—for nearly twenty years, until a…

No Child Left Behind

Jeff Kinney talks with Chapter 16 about his megahit series of children’s books that began with Diary of a Wimpy Kid

[This article appeared originally November 10, 2010. It has been updated to reflect new event information and a new installment of the Wimpy Kid series.] It’s the week after the…

If It Ain’t Broke…

With The Fix David Baldacci cements the success of yet another page-turning series

There are a handful of suspense writers whom readers can count on to deliver satisfying genre thrills in book after book: Lee Child, John Sanford, Michael Connolly, and David Baldacci…

Say My Name

C.J. Redwine puts a fresh twist on the timeless story of Rumpelstiltskin

The Wish Granter is the second offering in C.J. Redwine’s Ravenspire series, which began with The New York Times-bestselling The Shadow Queen, a retelling of Snow White featuring shape-shifting dragons,…

Another Day in Dystopia

In The Last Star, the grim final installment of his grim 5th Wave trilogy, Rick Yancey pulls no punches

The Last Star is the third and final installment of Rick Yancey’s dystopian YA series that begins with New York Times bestseller The 5th Wave and continues in The Infinite…

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