Daneet Steffens

4 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Carole V. Bell |Lauren LeBlanc |Wadzanai Mhute |Daneet Steffens |Kate Tuttle |Chris Vognar

Books are a year-round pleasure, but summer reading is an institution. As children, we read voraciously (whether for joy or to win prizes). As adults, summer is often the only time we can really lose ourselves in a book. Whether you’re looking for a romance novel to toss into your beach bag or something more mysterious to read on the lake house dock, this list of 75 books has something for every kind of reader.

Oct 23, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Daneet Steffens

Paula Hawkins’s latest novel, “The Blue Hour,” opens with a pair of non-narrative documents: a museum’s pellucid and lyrical description of an exhibited piece, swiftly followed by an email from a forensic anthropologist alleging that that sculpture contains human bone. The fact that the sculpture is by reclusive artist Vanessa Chapman, who long ago had squirreled herself away on a remote Scottish island, only serves to heighten concern around the possible issue.

Jul 2, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Daneet Steffens

The house first captured Jane Flanagan’s attention when she was a 17-year-old narrator-guide on a sunset cruise off her coastal Maine hometown, the same year she received a prestigious scholarship for a pre-college program at Bates College: “Jane glimpsed a house, pale purple, very old, with turrets and elaborate trim painted green in some spots and blue in others. One upstairs shutter dangled precariously. The window beside it had been smashed. A white curtain billowed out from within.”In J.

May 30, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Carole V. Bell |Leland Cheuk |Lauren LeBlanc |Daneet Steffens |Kate Tuttle |Chris Vognar

Whether you love fiction, nonfiction, mystery, or romance, we’ve got you covered! The Globe’s annual summer reading preview features 75 books coming out this summer that we think you’ll want to slip into that beach bag, backpack, or picnic basket. fiction Interactive content by Flourish Nonfiction Interactive content by Flourish Romance Interactive content by Flourish Mystery Interactive content by Flourish Ready to get your summer movies on? Here’s your guide.

May 8, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Daneet Steffens

As the energetic debut novel “The Ministry of Time” opens, our narrator, a British-Cambodian civil servant based in future London, is interviewing for what might be the job of a lifetime (she’ll be tripling her salary, for one thing).