With the onslaught of the rainy season in Seattle, we have plenty of reasons to hang out inside and read. Here are six books that will keep us happily pinned to the couch this weekend.

Here is the NBA longlist for nonfiction. Fiction will be announced tomorrow.

Award-winning author and illustrator Yuyi Morales let us peek inside the studio where she created her gorgeous new picture book, Dreamers, and shares a few early sketches from the book.

And  Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany is all about books. Take a peek inside with samples from this "Illustrated Miscellany" by artist Jane Mount.

Which of the ten finalists have you read?

Here are some of the books we have been talking about this week. 

Sadie is a suspenseful novel of murder, revenge and disappearance told through dual narratives, one of them the transcripts of a podcast.  We asked the author about her favorite podcasts and stories of true crime.

"Language is the great costume," says this wildly imaginative writer, who once sewed corsets for a Shakespeare company. "I’ve changed my life over and over by telling new kinds of stories." 

A captivating debut for fans of Sarah Waters, one of the funniest novels of 2018, and more. 

Six of our favorite new science fiction and fantasy books range from mecha battles in the United States of Japan to an epic conclusion to a bestselling urban fantasy series.

There's a lot of competition in this uber-popular genre. What should you read?

That back-to-school feeling has us ready to hit the books.

The Marvellous Equations of the Dread is Marcia Douglas's ode to Jamaica's tumultuous history, Rastafarianism, reggae music, and its resilient people. It also features a reincarnated Bob Marley. Douglas discusses the book, Marley's legacy, and what it means to write "A Novel in Bass Riddim."

Well, 2018 has been a funny year in a lot of ways, but perhaps particularly in books, where writers of fiction and essays brought out their best material. If you are in the mood to laugh, we've got five reads to recommend.

A Huck Finn-ish tale, King Lear set in India, two savvy satires, and more.