School Librarian Population Declines by 20% In Last Decade
In the last ten years, the population of school librarians has declined by roughly 20%, according to the findings of the School Librarian Investigation: Decline or...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 22, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 The Color Purple by Alice Walker Get This Deal $1.99 In the Distance by...
Your Summer Reading Horoscope
As both a Virgo and a lesbian, I love talking about books, and I loved talking about astrology, and I’m always right. Therefore, you can be...
Vanilla Lesbian Sex Made Me Miserable
When I drove to my high school girlfriend’s house to have sex with her for the first time, I still did not know what two girls...
Summertime Scares: Horror Reads for Summer
If you were to ask me to rank the seasons best for horror reading, it be a strong tie between summer and fall. As much as...
Forging More Mindful Connections to Books
In my everyday life, I strive toward the idea of embodying mindfulness. Mindfulness is a “basic human ability to be fully present … and not overly...
Books You Never Knew Had Manga Adaptations
The best books worthy of manga adaptations are the classics, or at least mega-popular stories. These universal tales — Cinderella, Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein — are...
How Rereading Lord of the Rings Helped Me Cope With My OCD
I have obsessive-compulsive disorder that often focuses on health-related intrusive thoughts. So, as you can imagine, living through a global pandemic has been something of a...
10 Recent Magical Realism Novels
What defines a magical realism novel? The presence of magic, obviously! But that’s an extremely broad definition. So broad, in fact, that it can absorb other...
10 Things You Might Not Know About the Comics Code Authority
If you’ve looked into the history of the U.S. comics industry at all, you’ll have heard about the Comics Code Authority. The CCA was formed in...
