Twisted Sci-Fi Novels About Time Travel
Welcome to The Best of Book Riot, our daily round-up of what’s on offer across our site, newsletters, podcasts, and social channels. Not everything is for...
Banned Book Displays, School Library Closures, and More Library News
It’s Banned Books Week Eve, so expect a ton of additional coverage in the next couple newsletters. But there’s other stuff happening in Library Land too,...
New Mystery Releases, Sherlock Inspired Backlist, + Mystery News for September 20, 2024
It’s time for a roundup of things you should have on your radar if you’re a mystery lover. I’ve got two new releases, backlist series that...
Why Teens Across the Country Are Acquiring Brooklyn Public Library’s Free Digital Cards: Book Censorship News, September 20, 2024
New York’s Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) has been among the most active library systems in addressing the book censorship crisis across America. In 2022, BPL launched...
For the Love of Creatures, Great and Small
When I was a kid, I pored over books about animals, reading every detail about their habitats, diets, and life cycles. My mom gave me a...
New Science Fiction & Fantasy Releases for September 20, 2024
Happy Friday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and I’ve got four brand-spanking new releases for your perusal today. It’s mid-September already, somehow, and I don’t know about where...
Meet the Winners of the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize
In 2017, Honey & Wax Booksellers established an annual prize for American women book collectors, aged 30 years and younger. Our goal, at the time, was...
The New Sapphic Trope Is Lovers Turning Into Sea Creatures
When I first read Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, I was straight. Or, at least I thought I was. It was 2014, and I was a sixteen-year-old...
8 Books About Women Being Bad
My whole life I’ve felt like a bad girl, like something was inherently wrong with me that I couldn’t manage to play the part society (and...
Like Yin and Yang, Poetry Holds Tension Between Polarities
Li-Young Lee’s first collection in a decade, The Invention of the Darling, remixes many themes from his five previous poetry books: family, exile, intimacy, and the...
