Why Are Libraries Important and More: An Autocomplete Survey
You know those celebrity videos by WIRED where they have a cute little poster with questions from Google’s autocomplete? I was curious about what Google wanted...
What My Experience In A Book Club Taught Me
Three years ago, I joined a book club. Little did I know what this book club experience would teach me in the long run. After endless...
10 Bright Books for the Darkest Night of the Year
Today is the winter solstice, which means it’s the darkest day of the year. If you are like me, your reaction to this will be to...
RIP To Reading Alice Walker. Long Live THE COLOR PURPLE.
In 2013, I was still fairly new to book reviewing. When I requested Alice Walker’s book, The Cushion in the Road, for review, I expected to...
The Best Fantasy Short Stories and Where to Find Them
We live in a new golden age of speculative short fiction, and fantasy short stories are part of that. The hardest part is often knowing where...
YA Adaptation Showdown, Day 5: Readers’ Choice!
Welcome to Day 5 of Book Riot’s first official YA Adaptation Showdown. This week-long event invites members of the YA community to share their thoughts on...
7 Satisfying Slime Books for Kids and Adults Written By Pro Slimers
Slime books are the next stage of the slime craze that began taking YouTube and Instagram by storm back in 2016. Young people en masse revived...
The Best LGBTQ Graphic Novels of 2018: List List #331
The List List is sponsored by MIRA Books and Hunting Annabelle by Wendy Heard. Sean Suh is done with killing. After three years in a psychiatric prison, he’s...
Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year 2018: Critical Linking, December 21, 2018
Sponsored by MIRA Books and Hunting Annabelle by Wendy Heard. Our Word of the Year for 2018 is justice. It was a top lookup throughout the year...
A Year in Reading: Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers
The self is singular; the self is communal. What a paradox, especially in this harrowing year, filled with systemic horrors and the threat of more to...
