Win $200 to Spend at The Ripped Bodice!
Romance is always in season, but in February especially so. And we have $200 to give away for some lucky Book Riot reader to spend...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for February 1st, 2019
Sponsored by The Line Between by Tosca Lee. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot!...
Biography of a Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel
In retrospect, it’s easy to look at the life and career of John Williams and see a disconnect. Here’s a writer who was in charge of...
The Fake Threat of Jewish Communism
One of the great merits of Paul Hanebrink’s A Specter Haunting Europe is its demonstration of how Europe’s most pervasive and powerful twentieth-century manifestation of anti-Semitic...
What to Read Instead of Watching the Super Bowl
7 books about racial inequality in America Wikipedia I n 2016, Colin Kaepernick decided that he was “not going to stand up to show pride in a...
Eat Your Feelings at These New Restaurants for Writers
From the Memoir Bistro to the Rejection Café, we’ve invented 8 dining establishments for the literary A writer’s life can be maddening. If editors aren’t ignoring your...
8 Fictional Books in Literature
Ben Winters, author of “Golden State,” recommends storytellers telling stories about storytellers. Photo by Eugenio Mazzone on Unsplash I n the Golden State, the alternative-universe version of...
6 Books Like Bird Box That Will Creep You the Eff Out
I have always loved horror. The poorly-written mass market paperbacks I pulled from my father’s shelves. The B-horror flicks I watched in dark basements. The books...
Tapping into Beer History with Books and Beer
One librarian at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) officially has the coolest job that I am jealous of. Judith A. Downie is the university’s Special...
Fashion Disasters: Guy Gardner
Some comic book characters who have been around for decades have iconic costumes that have stood the test of time. Some have progressed through a series...
