Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 20, 2023
Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Get This Deal $2.99 This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi Get This Deal $2.99...
The William Trevor Reader: “A Trinity”
Having read approximately 80 Collected stories at this point, I feel safe in making the following broad statement: William Trevor is not funny. This is not...
Folk Religion Isn’t Backward, But I Walked Backward Into It
The parade started early in the morning, before the heat could set in. The humidity in Taiwan was formidable, and heatstroke-addled marchers made for poor celebrants....
Freedom Is a Complicated Dream for a Queer Black Woman, Even After Incarceration
In the first few pages of Helen Elaine Lee’s Pomegranate, protagonist Ranita recalls a moment when her father gives her the titular fruit. She breaks the...
Queer Indie Bookstore Splits Profits with LGBTQ Authors
We recently covered how bookstore employees often aren’t paid a living wage, but it might surprise you to know that a lot of authors face the...
The Best New Book Releases Out June 20, 2023
This first official week of summer is bringing the heat, book-wise. Pun intended. There are a couple of darkly imaginative horror books, a queer and feminist...
How to Focus on Reading with ADHD
Despite what you might believe, people with diagnosed ADHD are approximately 3.5% of the population in the United States. Fewer than 20% of adults who have...
How Books are Used to Perpetuate the Prison Industrial Complex
Editor’s Note: the credit for the term “prison industrial complex” was changed to other include incarcerated people and activists. The prison industrial complex is a term...
QUIZ: Which Sub-Genre Should You Tackle Next?
If you are like me, picking a new genre to read can be intimidating, especially as creatures of habit. I fully admit to not broadening my...
Big D(addy) Energy: Celebrate Father’s Day With 10 of the Best Single Dad Romances
Today, I’m highlighting fathers in romance books. But more specifically, single dads. For many, a father has different meanings. A dad doesn’t always mean that he...
