Here are the Best SFF and Horror Books of the Year, According to the Locus Awards
The Locus Awards, first started in 1971, are given out annually in several sci-fi, fantasy, and horror categories. The winners are determined by votes from the...
Book Riot’s SFF Deals for June 26, 2023
Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo Get This Deal $1.99 Dawn by Octavia E. Butler Get This Deal $2.99 A Dowry of...
Oklahoma Teacher Didn’t Violate State Law in Providing Books, But May Lose License Anyway
In August of 2022, Summer Boismier, a nine year teaching veteran, covered her extensive classroom library with red butcher paper with the text “books the state...
The Best Mystery and Thriller Deals of the Day: June 26, 2023
$.99 The Sanctuary by Emma Haughton Get This Deal $2.99 I’m The Girl by Courtney Summers Get This Deal $2.99 A Spy in the Struggle by...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 26, 2023
Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder Get This Deal $2.99 The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna Get This Deal $2.99 Earthlings by Sayaka...
Cuddling My Way Through a Quarter-Life Crisis
An excerpt from Holding Pattern by Jenny Xie After indulging my misery for two weeks, LB made me download a dating app. We were in her...
7 Books about Gripping Family Secrets
I was a teenager before I learned my father’s real name. During a trip back to Vietnam in my twenties, I discovered he had more children...
Splits, Doubles, Masks, and Decoys: On ‘Life Is Everywhere’
What is the point of communicating if no one is willing to hear you—if people talk over you, negate you, subtract you from whichever room you’re...
When Irish Eyes are Beguiling: 10 Lively Irish Romance Novels
Ireland has an undeniable mystique, and Irish romance novels possess an extra special oomph. The gift of gab? The luck of the Irish? Whatever it is,...
20 Genre-Defying Fantasy Books You Won’t be Able to Put Down
We often talk about genre-defying fantasy books. But what does that mean exactly? Sometimes, genre-defying fantasy uses a non-conventional format to tell a story. More often...
