Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 27, 2023
Today’s Featured Book Deals $6.99 Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Get This Deal $1.99 Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo Get This Deal $1.99...
A New Novel Offers Literary Mothers a Feminist Alternative
My mother has read hundreds of books aloud to me. The titles changed over the course of my childhood—as my brother and I graduated from picture...
7 Novels About Questionable Geniuses and False Saviors
In the climactic moment of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, Toto the terrier moves aside the Technicolor-green curtain to reveal that the Wizard is...
The Best New Book Releases Out June 27, 2023
Today’s new releases have such an interesting mix. There’s one that belongs to the messy millennial sub-genre, full of entanglements in a chaotic Ireland. In another,...
8 Magical Peter Pan Retellings
A classic story from the First Golden Age of children’s literature — a period which began with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Peter Pan has a...
The Best Ways to Find Discount Books In Person and Online
Every bookworm has been there, especially in an age of inflation: why are books so flipping expensive? I’m just trying to be literate, well-read, and ignore...
The Bookish Life of Idris Elba
Idrissa Akuna Elba was born on September 6, 1972, to Sierra Leone Creole Winston and Ghanaian Eve, who married in Sierra Leone and moved to London,...
QUIZ: Which Iconic Queer Literary Character is Your Soulmate?
Queer literary characters, whether they’re explicitly identified as such in the text or largely accepted as queer by modern readers, have played a huge role in...
10 Summer Camp Horror Novels To Keep You Up Past Lights Out
Summer camp, whether you grew up going to months-long summer camp or day camp, is usually a pleasant experience. The food might be terrible, but you’re...
How to Create Haunted Spaces, According to Comics
Horror comics seek to frighten audiences in different ways. Some focus on supernatural creatures that push the limits of human understanding, while others deal with monsters...
