Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for October 20, 2022
Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth Get This Deal $1.99 Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall Get This Deal $2.99 The...
The Eerie Experience of Watching My Science Fiction Story Become Real
On May 13, I finally got to read my wayward science fiction story “It Is the Voice That Unnerves Me” in The Dread Machine. I had...
Who Is a “Bad Jew”?
Guess I’m a Bad Jew. That’s the same refrain I give when I sprinkle cheese on tacos or forget the second verse of the kiddush. This...
Don’t Flip That Cover: Why I Don’t Read the Book Description
I don’t read the cover copy because I like surprises. The author has spent months, maybe years, writing this story. Working out plot holes and tweaking...
8 Subtle, Subversive Books with Vulvas on the Cover
I don’t know about you, but I absolutely adore the nuance in book cover design — especially when those designs contain vulvas. It’s the most beautiful...
The 10 Best Slipstream Books For Readers New to the Genre
What is a slipstream book? According to Bruce Sterling, the term first came into use by Richard Dorsett when the two were discussing a subset of...
Happy Halloween!: 8 Autumnal (But Not Scary) Halloween Reads
I’ve never been a scary-movie person. I have nothing against them! October is the time when all the movie theaters play the best slashers and jump-scare-filled...
10 Books in Translation from Modern Greek
When many of us think of Greece, we think of Homer. Our minds draw straight to ancient Greece and ancient Greek, as if the cities of...
Swing In for the Best Spider-Man Comics
The best Spider-Man comics are spread out across 60 years of publication. That may seem a little daunting for new fans wanting to read some of...
The 50 Scariest Books Of All Time
Humans are the storytelling animal, and we’ve spent centuries using our powers to scare each other senseless. How novel, then, that what we consider scary varies...
