The ThriftBooks Blog

By Ashly Moore Sheldon • December 15, 2024

It's time for our annual collection of the best books of the year. The titles that made the cut cover a robust range of genres. This roundup includes the standouts in books for kids & young adults (YA). Check out our literary fiction & nonfiction edition. Upcoming editions will focus on romance & horror and mystery & sci-fi/fantasy.

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By Ashly Moore Sheldon • November 29, 2019

As we countdown to 2020, we're going to publish a series of ten of the best books of the past decade in ten different genres. 10 x 10! In order to finish by the new year, we'll be packaging two genres together in this once-a-week series. This week's lists are Kids and Young Adults. Here are our picks for the 10 best in each.  

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By Ashly Moore Sheldon • November 20, 2019

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we are excited to highlight ten excellent books by Indigenous American authors. From picture books to young adult novels, these volumes have been chosen for their ability to intrigue, inspire, and inform.

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By Ashly Moore Sheldon • June 19, 2019

What is chick lit? Stories about women? Should it be funny? Romantic? Exciting? We think it's all of the above and more! Read on to explore a particularly fun subcategory of the genre. These five books feature fierce female protagonists who take on monumental challenges.

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By Beth Clark • January 31, 2019

Did you know that Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series, also wrote book #6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams? Or that David Foster Wallace's editor finished writing The Pale King? True story. Turns out, there have been other handoffs and collaborations, so here are five of the best and the stories behind them.

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By Beth Clark • January 10, 2019

Peculiar People Day is a time to celebrate the quirky, eccentric, silly, weird, curious, colorful, irreverent, and intriguing oddballs in your life. You know the ones...they see the world a little—or a lot—differently, have a unique style that's all their own, and/or make you laugh when you least expect it by saying the things most people only think. If you're the peculiar one, lucky you! Embrace your wonderfully brilliant uniqueness in all its splendor and let your freak flag fly. (Your way, of course.) Keep reading for ten of our favorite peculiar literary characters.

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By Beth Clark • November 21, 2018

If you're as excited as we are about the upcoming publication of Christopher Paolini's "The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm," then this blog is for you! (And if you're not as excited as we are, you should be, so it's still for you.) Subtitled "Tales from Alagaësia Volume 1: Eragon" the book is the first in a new series and written as three short stories set in the world of Eragon's current adventures in Alagaësia. Read on for more on Christopher Paolini and a refresher on where we last left our hero and heroine in the Inheritance Cycle.

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By Beth Clark • November 07, 2018

Between Movember, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and a cornucopia of other observances and celebrations, November is busy. Which makes causes like Family Literacy Month tempting to skim or even skip. Enter Thanksreading, invented as a way to connect the random dots and promote our favorite thing ever (ahem, besides our stellar customers), BOOKS! Big, small, square, and tall…we have them all. Below are 30 titles handpicked with love for newborns to centenarians, and everyone in between, because families that read together succeed together, and holidays are all about hanging with the ones you love. (And about food—so much food—but that's a separate blog.)

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By Beth Clark • May 09, 2018

Being talented or even a bestseller doesn't guarantee authors the respect and appreciation they deserve, but these four are worthy of your time and book dollars.

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By Bianca Smith • March 12, 2018

Ready Player One, A Wrinkle in Time, AND Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda make March an amazing cinema month.

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