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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. Obama’s Summer Reading List Has Landed America’s reader-in-chief (remember having a president who was intellectually engaged?) has entered
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Katie’s parents never told her “no” when she asked for a book, which was the start of most of her problems. She has an MLIS from the University of Illinois and works full time as a Circulation & Reference Manager in Illinois. She has a deep-rooted love of all things disturbing, twisted, and terrifying and
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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. Are You a Reader or a Book Consumer? This piece from Kathleen Schmidt about literary criticism vs book consumerism really hits on some things I’m thinking about lately. Schmidt, a longtime publicist, focuses her critique
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Recently, a friend of mine has gotten really into audiobooks. He spends a lot of time driving for his job, and he’s switched his hours of podcast listening to audiobook listening. It’s been great to talk books with
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. 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
It’s also worth noting that there were not many published authors of color writing mysteries at this time. I am excited to have discovered Harlem Renaissance writer Rudolph Fisher’s The Conjure-Man Dies, but his works are few and far between. Let’s look at six mysteries from the Golden Age that are quite problematic in today’s
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Jessica Pryde is a member of that rare breed that grew up in Washington, DC, but is happily enjoying the warmer weather of the desert Southwest. While she is still working on what she wants to be when
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Patricia Elzie-Tuttle is a writer, podcaster, librarian, and information fanatic who appreciates potatoes in every single one of their beautiful iterations. Patricia earned a B.A. in Creative Writing and Musical Theatre from the University of Southern California and
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. One of my favorite tasks in this year’s Read Harder Challenge is #17: Read a book about little-known history. When I was in school, I was not a fan of history class. I felt like I was learning
Murder at the Black Cat Café by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Bryan Karetnyk Though this is part of the Detective Kosuke Kindaichi stories, it’s also a stand-alone mystery, full of jealousy and betrayal. It has animal death, so heads up on that. In a Tokyo still recovering from the war, a policeman finds two bodies—a
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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. Big Book Season Has Officially Begun The race for Book of the Year is R.F. Kuang’s to lose.
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Leah Rachel von Essen reviews genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes regularly as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her blog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 dedicated followers over several social media outlets, including Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, chronic illness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and
Marvel’s most popular books were dominated by Spider-Man and X-Men titles. I wanted a better variety than that, so I went a little deeper into Comics Beat’s analysis to come up with these selections: Ultimate Spider-Man (debuted January ’24) Uncanny X-Men (Aug ’24) Ultimates (Jun ’24) Iron Man (Oct ’24) It’s not surprising that the
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Courtney has been reading and collecting books almost as long as she’s been alive. She holds a B.A. in Theatre and Creative Writing. Courtney has been writing with Book Riot since 2019, and is a Bibliologist with TBR:
Woven From Clay by Jennifer Birch This one’s for fans of contemporary fantasy about magic, golems, warlocks, and witches. Terra is ready for the best senior year possible, despite some of the challenges she’s got, including not knowing her own birth origin. But her plans for an amazing year are thwarted when Throne Wilder comes
Home and Away by Rochelle Alers In modern times, Harper Fleming leaves her job in Chicago to write about sports, since they won’t let her. She plans to interview her great-grandfather in Nashville about his participation in the Negro Baseball League, but when she arrives, she starts caring for him after a stroke. She also
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. More excitement! I love seeing a novel pre-release getting all the adaptation excitement. In November, Marisa Kashino’s Best Offer Wins will be released. It’s billed as having dark humor and being about obsession and the housing market. It