Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for August 4, 2020
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99American Royals by Katharine McGee Get This Deal $2.99Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty Get...
An Unconventional Love Story, Told In Trinidadian Dialect
Ingrid Persaud made the grandest of debuts in the literary world by winning the BBC Short Story Award in 2018 with “The Sweet Sop,” the first...
Langston Hughes Knows You’re Tired—But He’s Not Letting You Off the Hook
My friends and I discuss the news once a week during our Zoom calls. The conversations are a mix of sympathy, frustration and opinions, but all...
10 Mangas And Manhwas To Read If You Like SOLO LEVELING
You know, when I first started reading mangas as a teen it took me a while to get into them because I had to read them...
Why the Library is Still the Only Place I Feel Safe, Even During a Pandemic
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been hopelessly insecure about my introversion. I had so strongly internalized our culture’s extroverted ideal that by the...
Carrying the Banner: Celebrating Women’s Suffrage Through Museum Exhibitions and Literature
Women’s heroes are everyone’s heroes! In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, we read...
Plus-Size Romances to Read This Summer
Curvy bodies, chubby bodies, fat bodies—all bodies are good bodies! And one of my favorite ways to celebrate that, especially during summertime, is with body positive...
20 Must-Read YA Books About Cults
Trends in publishing show up pretty prominently in YA books, likely in part because of how trends for teenagers emerge more broadly. This becomes really evident...
August 2020 Horoscopes and Book Recommendations
Welcome to Book Riot’s August 2020 Horoscopes and Book Recommendations! With tons of buzzy new books hitting shelves this month, where should you start? Let the...
10 Small-Town Thrillers to Read This Summer
When teenager Eliza Cook walks into the field office and confesses to murdering a young boy, it seems like an open-and-shut case for FBI special agent...
