In Her Family Memoir, Sarah Broom Expands the Map of New Orleans
Sarah M. Broom’s nonfiction debut, The Yellow House, meticulously maps out the story of her family and the city of New Orleans—both built with their own...
7 All-American High School Stories Centered Around Students of Color
When I was a teenager in the mid-2000s, I loved books and television about American teenagers navigating high school. From the Gossip Girl series to class-assigned...
TECHNICALLY YOU STARTED IT: An Interview With Author Lana Wood Johnson
You may not realize it yet, but Technically You Started It is your fav new YA beach read. Debut author Lana Wood Johnson serves up a summer...
Vote For Your Favourite Librarian for the I Love My Librarian Award
Do you love libraries as much as we here at Book Riot do? Do you think librarians kick ass and are real life-savers, bookish heroes we...
Dreamy Closet Library Ideas to Add to Your Home
Ever since I was little, I dreamed of having my own closet library to hide in while reading about magical tollbooths and young wizards. Now that...
15 Giveaways and Discounts for Women in Translation Month
August is Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth). Launched by literary blogger Meytal Radzinski, #WiTMonth is part celebration, part assessment of the ways in which women’s works are...
QUIZ: How Well Do You Remember the Food in Harry Potter?
I was a passionate Harry Potter fan as a kid (and teenager…and adult). I obsessed over the plots and characters, reading fan fiction and researching theories....
50 Must-Read Best Poems
In search of some of the world’s best poems? There is so, so much wonderful poetry that it’s impossible to say what the greatest poems are....
19 Really Funny Comics and Graphic Novels
“I dearly love a laugh.” Like Elizabeth Bennet, I too dearly love a laugh. My novel reading can be rather bleak and heavy. I’m attracted to...
5 Romance Books to Melt Your Animal-Loving Heart
This list of romance books for animal lovers is sponsored by The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare. Lady Penelope Campion never met a lost or wounded creature she...
