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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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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Cozy up under your favorite warm blanket, light up your favorite candle, and pour yourself your favorite warm beverage. It’s time to talk about all the new books this week. As we make …
Publishers Weekly takes a different strategy. Instead of just including different lists based on genre, they include their top ten picks overall. The top ten includes a few nonfiction titles, including When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World by Jordan Thomas, Capitalism and Its Critics: A History, …
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. From two Best of 2025 mystery lists to a roundup of locked-room mysteries by a crime writer, I’ve got your roundup of recent things for mystery fans to know! One Battle After Another …


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Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake Everyone on campus knows The House. Year after year, a slew of freshman girls pray that the exclusive sorority will bid on them. But only the best are welcomed in, and The House churns out shockingly perfect young women who go on to become CEOs, …
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. MIRA From Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author, comes an updated edition of The Lost with a new ending. In a desolate, mystical town where all lost things go—luggage, dreams, lives—Lauren …


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Terry Dactyl by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Terry Dactyl is a trans woman raised by lesbian moms who comes of age in the 1980s. She moves from Seattle to New York City and builds a community in the queer and gender-bending club scene, even as it is torn apart by the …
While we sit in the space between, where there’s neither Outlander or Blood of My Blood (a spinoff show I was surprised to actually really like!), let’s explore some other books in the category that a particular two-hearted alien coined “timey wimey”—a literary space that includes the familiar type of …
A number of themes overlap between KPop Demon Hunters and The God and the Gumiho, making it a perfect book for movie fans. Both draw inspiration from Korean mythology and infuse it into a modern South Korean setting, though Gumiho takes place in the 1990s fictional city of New Sinsi. …
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. David Baldacci Donating $13 Million to Fund Civil Discourse Initiative Bestselling author David …


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