ALA Announces 2018’s Top 11 Banned Books
It’s that time of year when we love on our libraries and the American Library Association announces its most banned books of the year. The ALA...
Best Translated Book Awards Names 2019 Longlists
Celebrating its 12th year of honoring literature in translation, the Best Translated Book Awards named its 2019 longlists for both fiction and poetry. Announced here—with a...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 10th, 2019
Sponsored by our $100 Amazon gift card giveaway! Enter here. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re...
Washington Department of Corrections Meets With Book Donors; Updating Policy
Update to last week’s news about the quiet change in policy that disallowed nonprofits from donating books to prisoners in Washington: last Friday, Department of Corrections...
When Your Childhood Hero Becomes a Sad Clown
An Excerpt from the novel Stay Up with Hugo Best By Erin Somers The house lay behind a solid gray gate on a long arm. A...
The Myth of the Consistently Great Writer
Usually it’s a confession made over a two-person dinner. Occasionally it’s a hedged statement to a larger group, the words tethered to my mouth like a...
There Were Women on Noah’s Ark
Sarah Blake and I met last year at the AWP Writing Conference in Tampa, where we bonded not over writing, but rewriting. The Bible, to be...
10 Manga To Read After Catching Up With ONE PIECE
Ninety-two volumes, 938 chapters, 22 years. One Piece, written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, is an emblematic and popular Japanese manga series. The best-selling manga series...
Fantasy Book Covers Intimidate Me—Here’s Why
I consider myself a casual fan of speculative fiction. Twilight came out when I was 13 and, by then, I had already been reading Harry Potter...
4 Historical Fiction Books About the Romanovs
“Grandma, it’s me, Anastasia.” via GIPHY Like so many, I grew up watching Don Bluth’s animated classic, Anastasia. The film, while charming and fun, also took a considerable...
