Poured Over: Alix E. Harrow on Starling House
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow is a haunted house story for those of us who love books, creepy fairy…
Jenna Seery
Jenna Seery has been a Barnes & Noble Bookseller since 2017 and a reader since birth. After getting a degree in English Literature (and a couple other degrees for good measure) she joined the BN team to be around books as much as she could. She’s most at home among the fiction shelves (literary fiction to the front, please!) but she spends a fair share of her time with poetry and history books as well.
Poured Over: Alice McDermott on Absolution
“It does come down to that moment, when as a reader or as a writer entering into a story we…
Poured Over: Amanda Peters on The Berry Pickers
“There’s nothing truer than fiction, because you can always find yourself in the work.” The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters…
Poured Over Double Shot: Anbara Salam and K-Ming Chang
Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang connects lyrical, dreamy prose and visceral reality in the story of two girls who navigate…
Poured Over: Jhumpa Lahiri on Roman Stories
In Roman Stories Jhumpa Lahiri translates her own writing from Italian in a feat of language and a love and…
Poured Over: Jesmyn Ward on Let Us Descend
“I think that messy, sort of evolving spiritual element of Black Americans’ lives … has allowed us to survive, and…
Poured Over: Rick Riordan on The Chalice of the Gods
Percy Jackson returns at long last in The Chalice of the Gods. Rick Riordan brings back the characters that started…
Poured Over Double Shot: Margaret Renkl and Sy Montgomery with Matt Patterson
Margaret Renkl’s The Comfort of Crows is a literary devotional featuring beautiful artwork that follows the natural world week by…
Poured Over: Jacqueline Woodson on Remember Us
“I expect my reader to meet me halfway with their own experiences and fill in the white space, fill in…
Poured Over Double Shot: Bryan Washington and Curtis Chin
Family Meal by Bryan Washington features the importance of food, friends and connection with a cast of characters working through…
Poured Over: Jean Kwok on The Leftover Woman
“I want people to read it with joy, just for the story. But I do hope that they’ll pick up…
Poured Over: Justin Torres on Blackouts
“I wanted it to feel like stepping off the world…” Blackouts by Justin Torres explores love, loss and the stories…
Poured Over: Pauls Toutonghi on The Refugee Ocean
The Refugee Ocean by Pauls Toutonghi, features musical prose and interwoven stories that cross generations and countries to explore what…
Poured Over: Safiya Sinclair on How to Say Babylon
“Language doesn’t just exist on the page … It’s about how you embody it” How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair…
Poured Over Double Shot: Jonathan Lethem and Benjamín Labatut
Jonathan Lethem’s Brooklyn Crime Novel brings readers to New York in the 70s and the cast of characters it contains.…
Poured Over: V.E. Schwab on The Fragile Threads of Power
“My biggest goal was to convert people who said they don’t like fantasy.” V.E. Schwab’s Shades of Magic series has…
Poured Over: Ayana Mathis on The Unsettled
The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis follows a family through generations from small town Alabama to Philadelphia in the 80s as…
Poured Over: C Pam Zhang on Land of Milk and Honey
“It really illuminates these questions of privilege and pleasure, and what kind of joy we can look forward to in…
Poured Over: Lauren Groff on The Vaster Wilds
“This book is the most personal because it is what I feel about the world itself.” The Vaster Wilds by Lauren…
Poured Over Double Shot: Daniel Mason and Paul Murray
Daniel Mason’s North Woods follows one house in the woods of New England as it passes through families (with inhabitants…