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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Brought to you by Random House Children’s Books It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of
I read a bunch of queer nonfiction last month, including All the Parts We Exile by Roza Nozari, a memoir by a queer Muslim immigrant in Canada. It follows her coming out, going back into the closet, and then finding a way to reconcile her sexuality and her cultural identity. It’s also about her relationship
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 Next ACOTAR Books Have Release Dates What’s that distant screaming, you ask? Don’t worry, it’s just the
Check Out These Recent SFF Awards and Honors At the 57th NAACP Image Awards in February, Nnedi Okorafor’sDeath of the Author won the Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work: Fiction, and Angie Thomas’s Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi won the Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work: Youth/Teens. Swords and Spaceships Sign


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Every month, there’s a flood of new sci-fi and fantasy books coming out clamoring for a spot on your TBR. But with so many competing for your attention, it’s easy to lose track of the ones you’re most excited about. And often, you just end up hearing about the titles with the biggest marketing budgets.
There have never been more new queer books coming out every week—but that doesn’t mean they’re easy to find. When I put together my round-up of new queer releases each month for Our Queerest Shelves, it requires a ton of research, including sifting through early reviews for any mentions of queerness, because that’s not always


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If you haven’t yet taken the time to look at the 2026 edition of this small tasks list, you can find it here. To Defend Religious Freedom from the Trump Administration, We Need to Fight Book Bans (2025) “Likewise, quippy retorts that people should ban the Bible because it doesn’t meet the standards of “appropriate”
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The big new book-to-screen adaptations continue to dominate the most read books on Goodreads: three of the top five titles this month are enjoying a boost in popularity from their TV or movie counterparts. Regardless of the reasons,


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Honey by Imani Thompson (Random House, May 5) Honey is about a PhD student who develops a thirst for murder. Yrsa is a graduate student researching Afropessimism. The research is going well, but Yrsa feels extremely disillusioned by the graduate school experience and even more disillusioned with men. Those feelings only escalate when she discovers
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. If you’re new here, we love a bit of mess, and some parts of the “Wuthering Heights” adaptation by Emerald Fennel have garnered exactly that. The new movie, which just came out the Friday before Valentine’s Day, has


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Eat, Pray, Love certainly isn’t without its critics. Although many praised Gilbert’s writing as highly relatable, it also stoked commentary on the wealth and whiteness that made her story possible. A 2010 Bitch magazine review of the memoir coined the term “priv-lit” to describe “literature or media whose expressed goal is one of spiritual, existential,


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Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett Narrator: Genevieve Cocke What’s better than a book that features cats? A book that features cats and magic! This delightful feline-filled fantasy is set in Montréalin the 1920s, in an alternate world where magic exists. Agnes Aubert runs a shelter where she finds homes for street cats,


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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. What’s happening in the world of book news for crime and mystery readers? An excellent audiobook production announcement, a revival play about Truman Capote, Colin Firth in a Noir adaptation, and more! Emma Thompson narrates! The audiobook of
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Romance can be a fraught genre for disabled readers and authors. “Conventionally attractive” has often meant white, thin, straight, and non-disabled. Some romance novels emphasize physical stamina and acrobatic positions. When I was younger, this focus made me
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. When it comes to new releases, my eyes are bigger than my stomach. Every month, there are so many exciting books coming out that I want to add to my TBR—far more than I can actually read. Something
Libby has shared the most popular books with us from January, and the list includes some of the usual bestselling heavy hitters, like books by Kristin Hannah, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Rebecca Yarros, and others. There are also some very timely additions, such as Heated Rivalry, the second book in Rachel Reid’s queer sports romance series,
This is the Only Kingdom Jaquira Díaz’s Ordinary Girls was everywhere in 2019, and I do mean everywhere: it got glowing reviews from Oprah, Publishers Weekly, Time, Bustle, and of course, Book Riot. It is a gut-punch of a memoir about Díaz’s difficult childhood, but also her triumphant coming of age. Her latest, This is
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. When I was in elementary school in the 2000s, I don’t recall there being any LGBTQ+ representation in the middle grade novels, or “chapter books,” that I read or was assigned. Characters like Henry and Beezus were free
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s no secret that any Olympic games, whether winter or summer, is going to be a hotbed of hookups and hangouts. This is not a bad thing; good for them, I say! So, of course, romance authors see