Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for December 9, 2020
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99Half Spent Was the Night by Ami KcKay Get This Deal $3.99Collected Essays by Joan...
13 Fantastic Books About East Asian American Kids
In raising my daughters, I have sought to find books with Asian American characters so that they can see themselves in the stories they read. I...
A Year in Reading: Jesse Paddock
I’ll admit, I’d considered the scenario in the past. You wake up one day to find that the world has gone on pause, a full timeout’s...
The Year in Reading: Mohamed Asem
In The Dud Avocado, Sally Jay Gorce, a young American girl eager to live life to the fullest, goes on a romp through Paris in the...
A Year in Reading: David Heska Wanbli Weiden
At the beginning of this strange and disjunctive year, I decided—for the first time—to keep a formal list of all the books I would read over...
My Therapist Is a Literal Zombie
“Z” by Julián Herbert, translated by Christina MacSweeney I communicate with my psychoanalyst by phone. My psychoanalyst is called Tadeo. Tadeo pretends to be an impartial...
Electric Lit’s Favorite Short Story Collections of 2020
Did everyone else notice that the New York Times list of 100 notable books from 2020 only included one short story collection? Weird, right? There were...
7 Books to Get You Through Unemployment
It’s no exaggeration to say that 2020 has been one of the toughest years in living memory. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating medical impact,...
How Reading Helps My Writer’s Block
Reading was one of my first true loves. I can’t really remember a time when I wasn’t reading. Some of my earliest memories involve curling up...
5 Food Novels By Southeast Asian Women Writers
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Francis Bacon’s familiar maxim, about the degrees with which a...
