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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Eileen’s primary literary love is comic books, but she’s always on the lookout for her next literary adventure no matter what form it takes. She has a Bachelor’s in media studies, a Master’s in digital communication, a smattering

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Free George R. R. Martin from The Winds of Winter As part of “Spicy Takes Week” at Polygon,

Because, it’s always the way I’ve built the auctions around Goldin. I try to take it to an auction and say, “It’s not an auction, it’s an event.” I want to make it a very special event. What is going to get eyeballs to the point where it does three things. One, makes it newsworthy, makes

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. July 16th and 17th are Amazon Prime Days, and that means a whole lot of sales for members, including on books and Kindles. We’ve included some of the most exciting sales on hardcovers and paperbacks below, but there

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Amazon Prime Days are happening July 16th and 17th, and they include a whole lot of book deals. Check out our guide to the best Amazon Prime hardcover and paperback deals as well as our ebook deals of

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. In case you missed it, last week I shared my giant spreadsheet of all the most exciting LGBTQ books out in the first half of 2024 — there are more than 600 titles, sortable by representation and genre!

Here’s what’s going on today on Book Riot: 8 Page-Turning Books With Short Chapters To Keep You Hooked Short chapters come in really handy as I can quickly maneuver through them. I end up starting multiple new chapters and feel the reward circuit in my brain smiling triumphantly. If you’re looking for books with short

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. If you love all things horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy or want to dip your toe into these arenas of literature, you’ll want to check out the winners of this year’s Shirley Jackson Awards. Presented July 13,

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The publishing industry definitely did not get the message that the dog days of summer are here. It was a busy week! Here are the most-clicked stories from this week’s Today in Books coverage. NYT Names the 100

Liberty Hardy is an unrepentant velocireader, writer, bitey mad lady, and tattoo canvas. Turn-ons include books, books and books. Her favorite exclamation is “Holy cats!” Liberty reads more than should be legal, sleeps very little, frequently writes on her belly with Sharpie markers, and when she dies, she’s leaving her body to library science. Until

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Next week, I’ll be sharing the results of the Our Queerest Shelves Halfway Check-In Survey, but today, I wanted to chat with you about my answers to the questions about my favourite new and backlist queer books I’ve

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Start your weekend off right with the Book Riot highlight reel. That’s right folks, we’re at the midway point of the year, which means it’s time to crown Book Riot’s Best Books of 2024 (so far)! Check out

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Friday at last! Look busy while you catch up on bookish news. This month there is a wide range of books selected offering a wonderful reading list, and certainly at least one book is a great fit for

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

But while the X-Men’s most intriguing couple might go back to the bayou for safety, they find anything but. Simone describes the book as “Southern gothic” story, which suggests something evil lurking in the swamp. “There are definitely horror elements,” Simone promises. “We have a villain that I can’t reveal anything about that is quite

January 7, 2025 would have been Zora Neale Hurston’s 134th birthday, and now it will be the publication date of The Life of Herod the Great, a novel Hurston was still working on when she died in 1960. Per a release, the novel “brings first-century BC Judea to vivid life, and portrays Herod the Great

Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands “This debut is the thunderous announcement of a brilliant novelist. Tom Newlands gives us Cora Mowat, a teenage protagonist with undiagnosed ADHD, whose singular voice and humor are absolutely unforgettable. Like Derry Girls done by Dave Eggers, Only Here, Only Now is fiercely original, unabashedly Scottish, heartrendingly poignant, and hilarious to the

With the first half of the year firmly in our rear view — and all the subsequent “best of the year, so far” lists published — it’s time for the Book World to turn our eyes to the rest of the year. LitHub is among the first to toss their hat in the ring with

Addison Rizer is a writer and reader of anything that can be described as weird, sad, or scary. She has an MA in Professional Writing and a BA in English. She writes for Book Riot and Publishers Weekly and is always looking for more ways to gush about the books she loves. Find her published

Katie’s parents never told her “no” when she asked for a book, which was the start of most of her problems. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Lake Forest College and is working towards a master’s degree in library science at U of I. She works full time at a public library reference