We are so pleased to welcome our next limited edition box, The Wicked Box! Featuring a hardcover collector's edition of Wicked by Gregory Maguire including green sprayed edges, a sewn-in ribbon bookmark, and an elegant foil-stamped cover. Boxes will also include SIX gorgeously wrapped gifts (inspired by the original story of Elphaba and Glinda*) that will bring the book to life before your eyes! But remember, don't open your gifts until you reach the specified page number as each gift is described within the story! *The included gifts in this box are inspired by the novel, "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire in its original form. Please note that these gifts are not intended to replicate items that are described or represented in the Broadway musical or the movie, as these items were created from our team's interpretations of the descriptions in the original novel's text only. As a reminder, this box is not part of our regular monthly subscription and is a separate, one-time, individual purchase. Anyone can purchase one and you do not have to be an active subscriber to order! We are so beyond excited to be bringing this story to you. Note: Boxes are expected to ship in August 2025. How It Works! Start reading your monthly book! Each box includes an exciting new read and your experience begins the moment you turn to page one. As you read, you'll find "Open Your Gift" sticky notes! Unwrap the gift with the matching page number and experience the book coming to life before your eyes! Chat about your reading experience with readers around the globe! Our private Facebook group is the perfect place to meet dedicated readers like you! About the Book With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film. In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens. But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.