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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. ‘Tis the season of naming the best books of 2024 so far, despite the fact we’re not yet half way through the year. Calendar niggling aside, these sorts of lists are helpful for readers who are unsure what

Happy Pride! I’m a little late because I was taking a vacation when the month started, but I wanted to make sure to tell y’all that. I also wanted to make sure I gave a great list of LQBTQ+ books to read with your book club. They include thee drag memoir, romance for the astrology

The Worst Ronin by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Art by Faith Schaffer Chihiro Ito is sixteen and has big dreams about being a samurai. She is obsessed with Tatsuo Nakano, a well-known samurai who was the first girl to be accepted to the renowned samurai school known as Keisi Academy. Keisi Academy is notorious for only

What MacKay had was Blood Hunt, a five-issue event book tying different parts of the Marvel Universe into one mega-story where the vampires go on the offensive, led by an unexpected villain—the Dark Lord of Transylvania himself. “If I say to my friends, ‘Hey, I’m working on Dracula,’ they say, ‘Okay, great, it’s Dracula!’” MacKay

With about half of the year in the rear-view mirror, it’s time we did some reflection. And Goodreads, with its millions of members, is always a great place to get a pulse check on what’s popular among the people. The most popular books of the year so far were determined by looking at which new

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL

To that end, Diggle gave her “a slightly more refined manner of speaking, which then contrasts very strongly with Holly, who is like very working class. I haven’t put this in the actual comic yet, but in my mind, Selina’s British, or at least half British. She comes in with that very genteel way of

On Thursday, three parents filed a federal lawsuit that opposes Florida law SB 1069, a law that essentially made banning books easier to do in the state. The parents allege that by making books easier to ban — and thereby upholding and enforcing “the state’s favored viewpoint” — the state is discriminating against parents who

Come and Get It is a novel with a fascinating ensemble cast of characters. It’s told against the backdrop of the University of Arkansas in 2017. First, we meet 37-year-old Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer who is working on her next project, a nonfiction book about weddings and wedding traditions. But when she

Today in Books rounds up news links from places from other than Book Riot, but we also cover news on the site, so here are the news stories we wrote about last week. Plus: a grab-bag of links that didn’t make into the regular daily sends, but still are worth a click. How Alabama Library

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Since I write about new LGBTQ book releases every week on Our Queerest Shelves, I keep a giant spreadsheet of upcoming queer books, adding titles as soon as I learn about them. I follow approximately a million queer

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here are the stories from the last week in Today in Books that you all found the most interesting, at least measured by the number of times you clicked through to read the story. In ascending order: Denis

Here is our daily round-up of what’s going on in the world of books: Publishers Sue Google over Pirate Sites  I was just having a conversation about a recent survey about audiobook consumption that had a pretty startling statistic: 47% of respondents report getting an audiobook through a file-sharing service or YouTube. And that reminded

Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus Valerie Danners and her family belong to a conservative Christian community. She’s homeschooled as her parents prepare her to one day be a stay-at-home wife and mother. But even with her parents and everyone else in her community telling her what her future will look like, Valerie isn’t

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Costco Plans to Stop Selling Books Year-Round I had heard from a Book Riot reader that they were seeing some weird activity around the books section at their local Costco, so this story about Costco scaling back their

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Julia is a professional nerd who can be spotted in the wild lounging with books in the park in Brooklyn, NY. She has a BA in International Studies from the University of Chicago and an MA in Media

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X Lives doesn’t make much sense (how do regular people sprout tentacles when they get possessed by Omega Red?), but it’s a fun look back at Wolverine’s many incarnations. And, as always, Cassara provides lush, detailed illustrations. X Deaths is a total mess, however, not least of all because many of Vicentini’s pages are incomprehensible.

Ethan Gatwick is a lobbyist—polished, professional, armed with policy one-pagers and potential campaign donations. He advocates for his clients the same way any other single issue lobbyist in Washington might. Only his issue is the complicated immortal lives of vampires. Ethan’s worked for vampires in one way or another for most of his life. He