Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 15, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of Today’s Featured Deals $2.99 A Phoenix First Must Burn by Patrice Caldwell (editor) Get...
New Releases Tuesday: The Best Books Out This Week!
It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for a new batch of book releases! Here are a few of the books out today you should add to...
A Black Love Story Unfolds in Southeast London
Open Water is part of a new wave of Black British literature, telling authentic stories that connect to people who have felt unheard and unseen. Debut novelist...
Can “The Topeka School” Explain What’s Wrong with Josh Hawley?
“America is adolescence without end,” Ben Lerner writes in The Topeka School. His witty, revelatory novel follows the Gordon Family—Adam, a high school debate star, and...
My Dream Queer Short Story Anthology
I have mixed feelings about short story collections. I love short stories, but I often find that whole collections fall short. It’s rare that I love...
On Learning to Embrace Audiobooks as a Reader
There are currently 136 titles in my Audible account, 16 in my Libro, and I have lost track of how many books I have listened to...
Profiles in Supervillainy: The Matador
What is a superhero without a supervillain? Not much. Some supervillains, however, are worth a lot more than others. I have therefore decided to spotlight some...
Everything I Know About Outlander, Which I Have Never Read (or Watched)
About ten years ago, when I first got a Kindle and discovered the many joys of ereading, I tore through The Hunger Games trilogy and then...
Too Weird or Not Weird Enough: What is Slipstream?
In early 2020, I tackled the definitions and interpretations of speculative fiction. Like speculative fiction, there is another term that lingers somewhere between literary fiction, mainstream,...
10 Part-Asian Characters in YA Novels Written by Part-Asian Authors
Not fully Asian, not really white. For many AAPI people, myself included, the feeling of being trapped between two cultures is all too familiar. We often...
