Book Riot’s Children’s Deals of the Day for June 21, 2023
$2.99 Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston Get This Deal $1.99 Sweet Valley Twins: Best Friends by Francine Pascal, Claudia Aguirre Get This Deal...
I Wanted To Write and Teach Literature Like My Mother Did
I feel the recognition in my bones when I read the opening line of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer: “I am a spy, a sleeper,...
I Keep My Black Hole on a Leash
Seven Darknesses No one knows how dark the darkness is. A bat flaps from the hay barn dressed in a shawl of webs. Call to the...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 21, 2023
Today’s Featured Book Deals $2.99 The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz Get This Deal $4.99 I’m So Not Over You by Kosoko Jackson Get This Deal...
The Most Requested LGBTQ+ Books in Classroom Libraries — and How to Help on DonorsChoose
We know that LGBTQ+ books are under fire across the country and they have been specifically targeted by right-wing conspiracy theorists in a very organized fashion...
Who Is Nora Roberts?
Nora Roberts is a romance novel icon. And, as I found out the more I researched her, she is also an extremely cool person. It’s impossible...
15 BDSM Romance Books to Keep You Tied Up
Even in 2023, over a decade after it was written, the first thing many people who are unfamiliar with the subject will think of is Fifty...
Lesser Known Queer Literary Icons
With censorship and bans ping-ponging across the U.S. at a horrifying rate, queer people can’t just do their jobs and live their lives. There is no...
Fit for a Queen: 10 Books Based on Queen’s Debut Album
Queen released more iconic hits than any band, even one as long-lived as they were, has a right to expect: “Somebody to Love,” “Another One Bites...
Reflecting on Spring’s Poetry
Happy Summer Solstice! I don’t know where spring went, but I do know that a lot of spectacular poetry titles have been published over these brighter...
