Authors Don’t Have Much Control Over Covers; Here’s Why
We all judge books by their covers. A cover is the most important piece of marketing for any book. Publishers know this, which is why they...
Why Does Windows Still Use Letters for Drives?
Windows typically assigns your system drive the letter C: and gives different letters to other storage devices. That’s unusual—macOS and Linux don’t use letters. Windows can...
Visit 28 of the Best Libraries in the World
In his keynote speech for the American Library Association’s 2019 annual conference, Jason Reynolds spoke of libraries as “sacred” spaces. I’m inclined to agree. There are many...
How (Not) To Get Your Teenager Back Into Books
If you were a teenager in the 1980s, 1990s, and maybe even 2000s, there is an extremely good chance that you sneaked a copy of Flowers...
50 Must-Read Romances Published in the 2010s
I know what you’re thinking: “Did you really list and determine the best romance novels published in this decade?” And the answer is no, of course...
30 Haunted House Books That Will Give You The Creeps
The haunted house is probably one of my favorite tropes across the whole horror genre. Book, film, video game; there is nothing creepier than big, empty...
The Books We Can’t Wait To Read This Summer
Typically, I do a lot of reading in the summer – my favourite thing is to lie on a beach with a good novel, taking the...
5 Contemporary Novels Inspired By PETER PAN
Tick tock tick tock: it’s time for some more contemporary novels inspired by Peter Pan. I say “more” because a few years ago my fellow Book...
An Education On Art and Democracy From Toni Morrison
“If we see the world as one long brutal game, then we bump into another mystery, the mystery of beauty, of light, the canary that sings...
3 on a YA Theme: YA Goes to Summer Camp
This list of YA books about summer camp is sponsored by Book Riot’s Amazon store. Shop our favorite summer reads (including some of our favorite books of 2019...
