Book Riot’s SFF Deals for October 30, 2023
Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero Get This Deal $2.99 Trouble on Triton by Samuel R. Delany Get This Deal $1.99 Rabbits by...
Marie Darrieussecq Plumbs the Depths of ‘Sleepless’ Nights
I will never forget the first time I saw the devil—leering at me, lurking in the corner of the room, glowing red and approaching my motionless...
You Can’t Raise a Daughter on Hope and Junk Food Alone
A New World by Kristen Gentry Parker stares at his niece Zaria’s stomach, covered by a stretched-out white tank top. Her belly is a dingy full...
A Black Father Illustrated the Importance of “The Talk” in His Graphic Memoir
Darrin Bell didn’t set out to write his much anticipated graphic memoir, The Talk. He’d initially sold another project delving into the lives of three generations...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for October 30, 2023
Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero Get This Deal $1.99 Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory Get This Deal $2.99 Folklorn by...
Ending Censorship Applies to Prison, Too: A Prison Banned Book Week News Roundup, 2023
U.S. prisons remain the institutions where the most censorship occurs. This has not changed, even as school and public library book challenges have skyrocketed in numbers...
Children on Toast and Other Musings: 30 Years of Hocus Pocus
For a while, the original Hocus Pocus movie existed in my mind in a pleasant little pocket of nostalgia alongside other campy ‘90s and early aughts...
Children’s Books That Will Keep the Halloween Spirit Alive All Year Long
It’s always a sad thing when November 1 rolls around and the Halloween season is officially over. Halloween is just so magical. Can we pause over...
What’s With All the Writing Cults in Fiction? An Exploration
I’ve always romanticized education and academia. But I don’t think I quite realized how much until I finally got around to reading The Secret History last...
Influential BIPOC Authors You May Have Never Heard of
It is a truth now, almost universally, if sometimes grudgingly acknowledged, that influential, perspective-shifting, genre-defining literature is not the bastion of white male authors it was...
