What Are the Routines of So-Called Super-Readers?
Kelsey Rexroat, a writer and editor from San Francisco, talked with people who read 100 or more books in a year, “people for whom reading is not a hobby so much as a way of moving through the world.” She identifies five patterns among such “super-readers.”
I found the comments as interesting as the article.
6 Unforgettable Psychological Thrillers
One of the common patterns of the readers identified in the article above is the exhortation to “read what you enjoy.” I enjoy psychological thrillers, and that’s the reason why I offer you this list of recommendations.
“. . . in the best psychological suspense stories, the narrative voice will be so distinctive and well-chosen that the books are unforgettable,” writes novelist Sara Foster.
Researchers stunned by a forgotten medieval book in Rome hiding the oldest English poem
The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marveling at a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library. They flipped through its digitized pages and found their sought-after treasure: the oldest surviving English poem.
As a former classicist, I see scholars like these as the world’s true “super-readers.”
Eight Memoirs About Medicine, Illness, and Healing
Fazlur Rahman, author of The Temple Road: A Doctor’s Journey, recommends “eight memorable memoirs here, from the past to the present, the best ones I believe, consist of writers of different racial and economic backgrounds, genders, and faiths.”
On the Road to Canterbury Reading Dan Simmons Sci-Fi Adaptation of Chaucer’s Classic
Novelist Adrian McKinty (born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, now living in Australia) pays homage to his friend, fellow novelist Dan Simmons, who died on February 21, 2026. To do this, McKinty undertakes his own pilgrimage to Canterbury while reading Simmons’s “most famous sci-fi novel of all, Hyperion, a retelling of The Canterbury Tales set in the far future.”
The rise of the literary nepo baby? The children of famous novelists on following in their parents’ footsteps
“From Naomi Ishiguro to Jess Atwood Gibson, more children of high profile writers are becoming authors themselves. Parents and their literary offspring discuss the pressures of measuring up”
“Does having a novelist for a parent make it likely that a child will be inspired to follow? Or is it easier for children of writers to get published? I spoke to some novelists who have kept it in the family to find out,” writes John Self. He discusses the answers to these questions in this article for The Guardian.
Five Great Mysteries Set in Australia and New Zealand
Karina Kilmore, chairman of the Australian Crime Writers Association, discusses “Yeah Noir,” “the fast-growing New Zealand crime writing scene”; and “Outback Noir of Australia.”
© 2026 by Mary Daniels Brown
