Tax Day is coming (April 15, in case you’ve been living under a rock), and I’m sure many of you are having the annual panic of gathering receipts and trying to remember which deductions are legal. But I’ve got a different kind of audit on my mind: the one where we all confess how much we actually spent on books this year.

Go ahead, do it. Open your Goodreads, your Amazon history, your bookstore app. Add up those purchases. Now add up the number of books you’ve actually read from that pile. Sit...

April 10 is National Siblings Day, and if you’re anything like me, it’s probably an excuse to send your brother a text that says “happy siblings day” and then not hear from him until Christmas. (The one I have is perfect, thank you very much.)

But here’s what got me thinking: readers absolutely eat up a good band-of-brothers romance. There’s something irresistible about the protective older brother, the black sheep who finally gets redeemed, the found-family dynamic where loyalty runs deeper...

It's April, and that means April Fool's Day is right around the corner. Did you know that the origins of April Fool's Day are kind of chaotic? Some say it started in the 16th century when France switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, and anyone still following the old calendar became the butt of jokes. Others claim it's even older. Either way, people have been pranking each other for centuries (which is somehow comforting in a weird way).

But here's the thing that gets me as a...