Seeking Comfort in the Bittersweet
At Tor, Molly Templeton dissects what exactly makes up a comfort read, noting that it’s not always the books with feel-good endings that we return to...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for August 23, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 The Book of M by Peng Shepherd Get This Deal $2.99 Texts from Jane...
You Can’t Vaccinate a City Animal for Rudeness
London Foxes It took us four years, but we cured all of London’s foxes of mange. Every fox in the greater metropolitan area was captured, tagged,...
A Meditation of Longing and Loss Set in Post-War Sri Lanka
In A Passage North, the protagonist, Krishan, grapples with the legacies of the tragic Sri Lankan civil war between the Sinhalese and Tamil communities. Krishan travels...
9 Books By Women From Afghanistan To Read Right Now
In the past several weeks, the world has watched as the Taliban have once again seized control of Afghanistan. In a rapid-fire coup that culminated with...
The 5 Best Libraries to See in Cambridge
Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins—sowing panic...
20 of the Best Light Novels You Need to Read
If you told me five years ago that we’d have a thriving light novel market in North America, I would have looked at you with skepticism....
Bookish Hills Upon Which I am Prepared To Perish
I love writing these kinds of posts. I come from a family of shit-starters and pot-stirrers, and we love nothing more than to get in dramatic...
8 of the Best Horror Books To Creep You Out This Fall
As summer winds down and the first bits of fall set in soon, I cannot stop thinking about October. That month, besides it being my birthday...
The Golden Library of the Moscow Tsars That No One Can Find
The promise of a lost library brings to mind hushed voices in dark corners, a shiver on the skin — and a potentially glorious treasure hunt...
