The weekend is here and we're hunkering down with a handful of great new books...

In this edition, Amazon Books editors take a raucous, stream-of-consciousness trip through three decades of the Beastie Boys, buckle up for a confrontational memoir from a controversial and groundbreaking artist, and settle in for "a coming-of-age story that will lodge in your heart."

You'll have to hold your breath just a little while longer...The latest novel by the beloved author of The Notebook and Nights at Rodanthe will be available on October 16!

Why settle for spooking around one home when you can set up shop in a hotel, country inn, or a furniture store?

An Antarctic adventure by one of our favorite authors, a book to help us balance logic and emotion, a young adult novel inspired by an infamous cult, and more...

Celebrate your literary freedoms with a handful of our favorite titles that have—in some way, at some time—been "challenged," "banned," and "burned."

If variety is the spice of life, this list of weekend reading is very spicy.

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.

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 end is nigh! As summer turns to fall, get a jump on your TBR pile with the biggest and best books coming out through the end of the year.

A handful of under-the-radar reads to add to your to-read piles...

A masterful spy story from John le Carré's nonfiction counterpart, a middle grade fish-out-of-water story, the latest from Michael Connelly, and a memoir from the daughter of Steve Jobs... 

Crazy Rich Asians and Jack Ryan headline the batch of books coming to life on screens big and small now through September.

In this edition a lovely small-town yarn, the role of social media in modern war, a thriller you'll want to read in one sitting, and the art of "mental archery."