TikTok Users Report Reading 50% More Because of BookTok
A recent poll asked 10,000 US and Canadian TikTok users between the ages of 18 and 45 if they are reading more because of BookTok, the...
9 Books that Showcase the Different Faces of Trinidad and Tobago
“Do you get internet in Trinidad?” “You must live at the beach!” “Do you really drink straight out the coconuts?” I’ve been asked versions of these...
The Quest to Uncover a Disappearance in the Biafran War
When Emmanuel Iduma was growing up in Nigeria, he learned little officially in school about the Biafran War, the civil war that split the country along...
New Releases Tuesday: The Best Books Out This Week
It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for new books! Here are a few of the books out today you should add to your TBR. This is...
24 Life-Changing Healing Books
The world is tough. Living in the modern world involves grappling with pressures from all sides, and if you are a marginalised person, you have added...
Weird Queer: An Introduction to the Genre
It seems like someone comes up with a new genre every day, or maybe genres are just spontaneously splitting and multiplying faster than we can name...
Quiz: Can You Match The Mystery Novel to Its Opening Line?
There are very few pleasures in life than cracking open a new book, reading the first sentence, and thinking: damn, what a way to start! Opening...
Five Recent Vlog Adaptations of Books
Earlier this year, I wrote a piece exploring what had happened to vlog adaptations of books. In it, I said that I had not been able...
10 Essential Poetry Books by AAPI Authors
It’s May, which marks the monthlong annual celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. In Book Riot’s What Readers Should Think About When...
8 New Fiction Books Exploring Mental Health That Show You’re Not Alone
What if you could attend your own funeral? What if you could hear from your loved ones exactly why they love you and what you mean...
