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We made it everyone. It’s Friday. Enjoy it by checking out what we have on offer at Book Riot today: Every month, the American Booksellers Association put together a list of the top 25 new book releases of the upcoming month as their Indie Next List Preview. These are books that were nominated by booksellers

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The 2024 TikTok Award Winners Since the biggest TikTok books sell hundreds of thousands of copies, one could argue that the cash is the prize of being a BookTok favorite. But apparently you can get

Alice Nuttall (she/her) is a writer, pet-wrangler and D&D nerd. Her reading has got so out of control that she had to take a job at her local library to avoid bankrupting herself on books — unfortunately, this has just resulted in her TBR pile growing until it resembles Everest. Alice’s webcomic, writing and everything

Sony is adapting Liz Moore’s novels The Unseen World and The God of the Woods, which we just wrote about as being Thee Book of the Summer. The plan is for both adaptations to be developed as series, with the same executive producers as Sony’s adaptation of Liz Moore’s Long Bright River: Neal H. Moritz

Before I dive into your bi-weekly mystery goodness, which includes new releases and news, I thought I’d share a treat. Literally. I made Smitten Kitchen‘s chocolate ice cream sandwiches over the weekend and 1.) they are delicious straight out of the oven prior to cooling or ice cream, 2.) you can cut them into pieces

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Reading Revolution: How the Literary Sphere Took Over I have been trying to figure out why book sales have been on a tear over the last few months, to the point of even asking

New books, heist novels, and more today on Book Riot: “One last heist” is an excellent trope in the mystery and thriller genre for many reasons, starting with the fact that the stakes are already built into the premise: everything is riding on this one last event in a do-or-die way. Now the why, the

Harris books are moving, Hugo culls fraudulent votes, N.K. Jemisin on the literature of survival, and more. Kamala Harris Book Sales Soaring A 60,000% increase in book sales means (at least) two things are true: enormous surge in interest and a low starting point. If Harris were selling 1000 copies a week, say, before Biden

And the line-up for Book Riot today is….. In 2021, Kamala Harris made history as our first Black and South Asian American Vice President. Prior to that, she was also the second Black woman (and first South Asian American) elected to the Senate. She’s now running for President. Harris is a reader and is the

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century is Moving Units I have gotten emails from booksellers and librarians (and regular book buyers and borrowers too) that The New York Times Best Books

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century is Moving Units I have gotten emails from booksellers and librarians (and regular book buyers and borrowers too) that The New York Times Best Books

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century is Moving Units I have gotten emails from booksellers and librarians (and regular book buyers and borrowers too) that The New York Times Best Books

Addison Rizer is a writer and reader of anything that can be described as weird, sad, or scary. She has an MA in Professional Writing and a BA in English. She writes for Book Riot and Publishers Weekly and is always looking for more ways to gush about the books she loves. Find her published

Margaret Kingsbury grew up in a house so crammed with books she couldn’t open a closet door without a book stack tumbling, and she’s brought that same decorative energy to her adult life. Margaret has an MA in English with a concentration in writing and has worked as a bookseller and adjunct English professor. She’s

Here are the biggest stories we covered in Today in Books from last week: Florida Recommends Pride & Prejudice to Read about ‘American Pride.’ Florida, ground-zero for book-banning and censorship, continues to fumble the point of books and reading with its recent decision to include Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice in a list of recommended

A couple of weeks ago, I shared with you the spreadsheet I keep of the queer books that have come out so far in 2024 — more than 600 of them, in fact. I’ll let you in on a little secret, though: that’s an edited list. In my personal spreadsheet, I have a column for

Happy Friday, book lovers. A particularly good line-up for you today on Book Riot: I still can’t resist a good bookshop-based novel. Traveling to distant lands, magical or otherwise, is all well and good. But for me, nothing beats the magic that can be found in a brick-and-mortar shop just bursting with books. They’ve since

We all made some choices during the depths of 2020. Some decided that baking sourdough bread was worth obsessing over. Some made Zoom dates with people they hadn’t talked to in decades. Some watched The Office over and over again. I got into credit cards. Not using credit cards to buy stuff, at least no

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. On the Life-Changing Joy of Re-Reading Books I hardly ever re-read books. It’s not that I am against it of course. It is only that there are so many books that I have not yet

Another day of book stuff today on Book Riot: Audiobooks are a fantastic medium for the nonfiction genre. There are so many topics that benefit from the conversational nature, speaking the quiet bits out loud, and allowing our minds the time to roll the thoughts around. It harkens back to the days of open forums

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: The Readers Make Their List The content bonanza that is The New York Times’ List of the Best Books of the 21st Century continues with the most

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Free George R. R. Martin from The Winds of Winter As part of “Spicy Takes Week” at Polygon, Maddy Myers takes a new angle on the unprecedented situation George R.R. Martin finds himself in. Rather

Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View

Amazon Prime Days are happening July 16th and 17th, and they include a whole lot of book deals. Check out our guide to the best Amazon Prime hardcover and paperback deals as well as our ebook deals of the day for sales in all genres. If you’d rather skip to just the mystery and thriller books, we’ve put together

Amazon Prime Days are happening July 16th and 17th, and they include a whole lot of book deals. Check out our guide to the best Amazon Prime hardcover and paperback deals as well as our ebook deals of the day for sales in all genres. If you’d rather skip to just the horror books, we’ve

Here’s what’s going on today on Book Riot: 8 Page-Turning Books With Short Chapters To Keep You Hooked Short chapters come in really handy as I can quickly maneuver through them. I end up starting multiple new chapters and feel the reward circuit in my brain smiling triumphantly. If you’re looking for books with short

Young adult fiction has never been more mainstream for readers of all ages. In fantasy especially, not reading YA means missing out on some of the most exciting, popular, and genre-expanding stories out there. In fact, it’s even become more common for adult readers to incorporate middle grade fiction into their TBRs. There are so

Margaret Kingsbury grew up in a house so crammed with books she couldn’t open a closet door without a book stack tumbling, and she’s brought that same decorative energy to her adult life. Margaret has an MA in English with a concentration in writing and has worked as a bookseller and adjunct English professor. She’s

The publishing industry definitely did not get the message that the dog days of summer are here. It was a busy week! Here are the most-clicked stories from this week’s Today in Books coverage. NYT Names the 100 Best Books of the Century (So Far) The New York Times polled more than 500 “literary luminaries”—including Roxane