Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for February 20, 2024
Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins Get This Deal $2.99 Strange Weather by Joe Hill Get This Deal $3.99...
West Virginia House Passes Bill Allowing Prosecution of Librarians
Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Suspense-thriller fans, take note! We’ve got...
Maryland Introduces Freedom to Read Act
Another state has introduced legislation this session seeking to protect the right to read for citizens. Maryland now joins Oregon, Virginia, Washington, New Jersey, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Massachusetts, in attempting...
The Best New Book Releases Out February 20, 2024
The plot thickens in the Hugo Awards drama. Turns out some people were right in thinking the whole mess had something to do with politics. A...
Leslie Jamison Serves the ‘God of Complexity’
When I first heard that Leslie Jamison was writing a memoir about early motherhood and divorce, I was excited to read a book on these topics...
I Will Never Get Tired of Baz Luhrmann’s ROMEO + JULIET
On a Book Riot Podcast episode about love story adaptations out today, I got to gush for a moment about one of my favorite subjects: Baz...
An Affair, a Secret Child, and a Houseguest Who Makes it Weird: Read an Excerpt of THE GUEST by B.A. Paris
The premise of B. A. Paris’s The Guest is one to which many of us can relate: an unwanted houseguest overstays her welcome. In this excerpt from...
20 Novels In Translation You Need to Read this Winter and Spring
Translated literature is no longer the forgotten, othered cousin of the Anglo-American literary scene. At Electric Literature, we have long been enamored by international frontiers, the...
7 Novels Inspired by South Asian Mythology and Folklore
South Asian stories are often tales rich in culture and folklore, encapsulating the nuances and intricacies of a long, rich, and complex history. Historical details peppered...
10 Essential Black Middle Grade Authors To Read Every Month Of The Year
Black History Month often finds non-Black caregivers searching for Black middle grade authors to read to their kids, and while supporting Black authors is always a...
