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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The “best of” season began in earnest in early October. Every year, it gets earlier and earlier, and while there are some compelling arguments for “best of” lists to hit in anticipation of …
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s finally here: Book Riot’s picks for the Best Books of 2025. We pride ourselves on having one of the most diverse and eclectic Best Books of the Year lists, representing a wide …
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Authors Equity Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. Perfect for readers of David Grann’s The Wager and Nathaniel …
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. When I became an elementary librarian in 2017, graphic novels were a fledgling section in our collection. Even though we had just a few copies of a few stories, the impact was huge. …
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Now that we’re creeping to the end of 2025, publications everywhere will start publishing their best books of the year lists. This year was a hard one for me, personally and politically. And …


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Angela Flournoy’s first book, The Turner House, is a fantastic novel about a family, and this follow-up is a masterful work about 20 years of friendship between Black women, who are every bit a family as well. Over two decades, January, Monique, Nakia, and Desiree traverse school, love, loss, career …
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Best Audiobooks of the Year Audiobooks have changed my reading life for …


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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson The sheer scale of the Great Migration can abstract this movement, which took place over many decades and across generations of Black Americans. Because it spanned such a great period of time, from the early …


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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Canary Street Press and HTP Books Fact or fiction: proposing to your best friend so she can inherit her family business is a great idea. My best friend Roe needs a husband to …
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I have never been able to choose a favorite reading season, but I do have a favorite time of year to get ready for books, and that’s now! I love the last six …
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. With a new week comes new book news to get excited about! From film soundtracks to cover reveals to big adaptation news, you won’t want to miss what the bookish world is talking …
Welcome to your Sunday edition of Today in Books. Here are the stories Today in Books readers were most interested in this week. Amazon’s Best Books of the Year In a year without a novel likeJamesowning headlines and bestseller lists, the field has been wide open for end-of-year lists. At …


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Welcome to your Saturday edition of Today in Books. Here’s all the news Book Riot covered this week. And here’s a bunch of interesting bookish news we didn’t get to. Join All Access to unlock members-only content Get access to exclusive content and features with an All Access subscription on …
In January, my colleague Kelly Jensen wrote about the Unbearable Whiteness of the Goodreads Choice Awards: only 11% of winners were written by authors of color, and that was even worse in the first five years of the award. Queer books haven’t fared much better, though that had been shifting …


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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. 831 Stories Gives Romance a New Look There’s nary a clinch nor a bodice to be found on the romance novels from 831 Stories, a publishing startup founded by Claire …
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Barnes & Noble Picks Its Book of the Year This year’s Barnes & …
Among the numerous other similar non-professional book reviews is Take Back the Classroom (TBTC). TBTC was mentioned in this look at such sites in January, but over the course of the last year, TBTC’s profile has grown exponentially. It’s not only grown, though. It’s become a resource that book banners …


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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s Native American Heritage Month! This month, we celebrate Indigenous stories from across Turtle Island. There are Native researchers, Poet Laureates, memoirists, historians, and more. Whether these Indigenous storytellers are sharing their own …
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. If you read comics, you’ve seen loads of speech bubbles before, but you probably never looked too hard. After all, their purpose is purely functional: to make it clear that someone has something …
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Since its 1818 publication,Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheushas been likened to the Monster described in the book, cobbled together from different parts and ideas. It’s been a favorite for adaptation …
Oops. That’s what I get for judging a book by its cover. I felt a smidgeon of disappointment when I realized early on that this book is centered around a collegiate men’s basketball team. “They expect me to root for these men?” I whined. Nevertheless, I read on in search …
VIZ Media Xin is a war orphan in a poor village in the kingdom of Qin. He has big dreams of becoming a great general, and when his best friend’s life is cut short by political machinations, Xin sets off to find a deposed ruler and help restore his place …
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