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Which Psy-Changeling race do you belong to? This might not be quite as popular a question as “which Hogwarts House were you sorted into?” but it...

Elizabeth Gilbert’s historical novel City of Girls was one of my favorite books of 2019. I was totally drawn into this breezy yet compelling story with...

Coming to Terms with My Preference for Reading Solo I have to make an admission: I joined a book club last year but have skipped three...

There’s so much hate tossed at Valentine’s Day. So many believe that it’s a commercial, Hallmark holiday and while indeed, it has become commercialized—like so many other holidays!—it’s...

Good talks we have with our children tend to happen in private. They might take place when we’re snuggled on a couch or while in the...

So you read Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and now you’re looking for books like Beloved to fill the novel-shaped hole in your heart that this classic left behind. I...

So it would seem that a bunch of men have decided that the best way to celebrate the 90th anniversary of The Secret of the Old...

This list of YA books set in one night is sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. Novel Gazing is your destination for...

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing....

“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same things as prayer. It presupposes faith and love.” —Simone Weil, “Attention and Will” (1942) “I do not...