A Year in Reading: Richard Brody
In the past few decades, my years in reading have been nearly coextensive with my years in riding: most of my pleasure-reading has been done on...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for December 12, 2022
Today’s Featured Deals $4.99 Velvet Was The Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Get This Deal $4.99 The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers ...
Drowning Under the Perfect Wave
Waves of the California Coast Mavericks, where surfers compete to slide inside the emerald room of the largest tube. Pescadero, where girls drip tinctures under their...
A Man on the Run Escapes His Life, but Not His Identity
Jonathan Dee’s new novel, Sugar Street, is a fantastic subversion of an old American story. The nameless white man, sinful, remorseful, arrives in a new town...
The 10 Best Mystery Bookshops for Super Sleuths to Visit
Year after year, from Agatha Christie to Tiffany D. Jackson, mysteries continue to hook readers. And why shouldn’t they? With genres from cozy to spine-chilling and...
Small But Frighty: 8 Horror Novels About Creepy Kids to Haunt You This Holiday Season
I can’t be the only one who gets such a kick out of those Tweets or Reddit threats about creepy things kids did. Like telling the...
Fun Books to Read During Hanukkah
Hanukkah starts December 18, and while it may be one of the better known Jewish holidays, at least on the surface, it’s actually one of the...
Why Romance Characters Need Friends
I mean, we all need friends. But when I’m reading a romance, I want the characters to have friends. As with any broad statement I make...
A Year in Reading: Ed Simon
Lenin’s prose tended toward the turgid more than the playfully gnomic, but when it comes to the aphorism that “there are decades where nothing happens; and...
A Year in Reading: Hannah Gold
This is my year of reading organized roughly by author and not in any kind of chronological order. I chose the books that made the biggest...
