Win $100 to Spend on Young Adult Lit!
What’s Up in YA? is our biweekly newsletter about all things young adult literature, and we’re giving away a $100 gift card to Amazon to support...
Survey Finds Audiobook Listens Continue To Rise! Critical Linking, May 1, 2019
Sponsored by our giveaway of $100 to spend on YA lit! Half of all Americans over the age of 12 have listened to an audiobook in...
May Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month)
We wouldn’t dream of abandoning our vast semi–annual Most Anticipated Book Previews, but we thought a monthly reminder would be helpful (and give us a chance to note titles we...
Why Assange and Ecuador Fell Out
With the tide of left-populism now at a low ebb in Latin America, only Bolivia and Venezuela condemned Ecuador’s ejection of Assange and his arrest. Meanwhile,...
Reading Gregor Samsa’s Chart
Have you ever wondered about the astrological sign of your favorite literary character, or considered how the introduction of astrology might supplement, for example, our reading...
Ten Essential Graphic Novels and Memoirs About Queer Women
When I read a graphic novel that includes a queer narrative there are a few things that make it stand out to me. I want characters...
Elle Fanning And Others To Perform THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB Audiobooks
Baby-Sitters Club fans unite! Coming in August are all 131 audiobook editions of the beloved middle grade series. The first five books in the series will...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 30th, 2019
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How Can Our Mothers Ever Live Up to Our Expectations?
I remember first reading Michele Filgate’s essay “What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About” on Longreads. It was a year and a half ago, October...
7 Honest Books About Hoaxes
I’ve long wondered what makes a person believe something improbable — either really believe, or convince themselves to err on the side of a questionable opinion, even if...
