The 2023 Booker Prize Shortlist Has Been Announced
The 2023 Booker Prize Shortlist has been announced! Chosen from 163 novels, this year’s shortlist is comprised of six novels that span the globe and the decades. Notably,...
Levar Burton Will Lead Banned Books Week as Its Honorary Chair
Reading advocate and icon Levar Burton will serve as the first actor to lead Banned Books Week as the honorary chair. Banned Books Week is an...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for September 21, 2023
Today’s Featured Book Deals $3.99 Murder is a Piece of Cake by Valerie Burns Get This Deal $1.99 Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik Get This Deal...
Schools Saw a 33% Increase in Book Bans Last Year; Average Publication Date of Most Banned Books Is 2005
PEN America released their latest report on the state of school book bans, showcasing a 33% increase in the number of books banned in the 2022-2023...
Electric Lit Is Thrilled To Welcome Deesha Philyaw to Its Board of Directors
Electric Literature is excited to welcome Deesha Philyaw, acclaimed author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, to its board of directors. Much of Philyaw’s fiction...
7 Novels that Defined the Obama Era
You can tell a lot about a country by the culture it consumes. The Bush era was defined by a brand of bombast befitting a blundering...
“Can’t You See That the Wall Is Growing?”
Brando Skyhorse’s new novel My Name is Iris, is a harrowing and, at times, darkly funny exploration of one woman’s complex relationship with her own identity...
Reminder To New Users: Bookish Instructions for Bluesky
The jury is still out on social media as a whole, but every now and then it brings us something delightful. (See: Bigolas Dickolas.) This morning,...
The Best New Biographies of 2023
2023 has been an excellent year for biographies, with plenty of well-researched and innovative new releases for fans of the genre to immerse themselves in. Among...
The Power of Story: Historical Graphic Memoirs to Educate and Enlighten
There’s something about comics as a medium that lends itself to learning about history. In fact, Rioter Carina Pereira explores this exact phenomenon in the essay...
