Curated by Ashley Dickson-Ellison ( @ashley_dicksonellison ) It's February, and some of us really enjoy reading some romances this time of year. To be honest, I never read romance books until after I started participating with Unabridged. It's hard to believe now because romances are such an important part of my reading life! I'm taking a look back at some of our Unabridged book reviews to highlight some favorite romance books since love is in the air this month. Jacqueline Firkins’s THE...

by Ashley Dickson-Ellison ( @ashley_dicksonellison ) I loved seeing Jen's post about the books she's considering reading from the year she was born for our Unabridged Reading Challenge, and I thought it would be fun to do that as well. I was born in 1981, and there are several iconic books that I did not realize were written that year. To get started, I also used the Goodreads list for the most popular books written in the year of my birth, and it was a helpful way to get a sense of what...

Have you ever finished a book you absolutely loved but found hard to explain? In this episode of Unabridged , we’re discussing our January 2026 Book Club pick, National Book Award winner The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)  by Rabih Alameddine ( Bookshop . org | Libro . fm ), which is brilliant in ways that are sometimes hard to articulate. Before diving into the discussion, we start with a bookish check-in: Ashley shares about Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead...