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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. Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 Locus Awards Looking to read your way into the best of science fiction and fantasy from last year? Then you’ll want to dive into the Locus Top Ten

Creative Quest by Questlove Before I even get into the meat of this book, I want to recommend listening to the audiobook. If you do, you’ll be treated not only to hearing Questlove’s words from his own mouth but also original music by him and members of the Roots, plus guest appearances by comedy legends

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Writing a book is hard. That goes for any kind of book: children’s or adult, graphic or prose, fiction or nonfiction. But that doesn’t mean they’re hard in the same ways. I talked to Sophia Glock, creator of

In mid-March, Dial Books, a long-time imprint at Penguin Random House, shut down unexpectedly. No one knew it was happening, including the authors or the editors, many of whom lost their jobs. News about the closure offered no answers as to why this happened and why it happened so swiftly and unexpectedly. Industry chatter suggested

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Picture it: a patron comes to the desk looking for a copy of the latest bestseller and is disappointed to learn that while yes, the library has ordered 10 copies of said bestseller, all of the copies are

Newbourne Park by Jennifer Thorne (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, September 29) In 2024, Jennifer Thorne released Diavola, a bone-chilling gothic ghost story set in Italy, and I haven’t been able to stop talking about it since. 2026’s Newbourne Park sees Thorne return to a family vacation story, but the locales and the scares are quite different

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. Nigerian Erotica Writers Bypass Morality Police With Women’s-Only WhatsApp Groups Listen, if I know anything about humanity, it’s

Natasha Bishopis the author of the upcoming romance The Art of Loving You, releasing April 14th from Zando/Slow Burn. Here, she shares three books that reflect the themes of grief and healing that run through the story. Fast by Millie Belizaire: Grief shows up as motion. It is constant, controlled, and deeply intentional. The heroine,

Earlier this week, the Trump administration dropped its appeal in Rhode Island v. Trump, one of the two cases filed against the regime following the gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) last March. Now, just days later, the second case brought to court over the IMLS’s dismantling has an outcome, too.

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. We’ve been waiting for this one. Octavia Butler’s 1993 dystopian novel Parable of the Sower is finally set for a film adaptation. The eerily prescient story opens in 2024 and images a United States in which times are

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Every month, there’s a flood of new mystery and thriller 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.

Every month, there’s a flood of new graphic novels 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. So, how

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I’ll give you one guess to identify the most-read book on Goodreads in March. It is the inspiration behind the hit movie of the moment, which has rocketed this 2021 novel back to the top of bestseller lists.

The first thing I read in March was Isn’t It Obvious by Rachel Runya Katz, a bi4bi M/F romance that I really enjoyed. I mean, the main character runs a queer teen book club, so of course I was going to love it. The book I spent most of March reading was Hell’s Heart by

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s almost Earth Day! If you’re like me, you live on Earth and have a vested interest in keeping it nice. The graphic novels listed below feature characters who share that conviction–and who risk all to do something

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is a poet and nonfiction author (World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments). Her newest book is Night Owl: Poems, out today from Ecco. Below, she shares the connection between poetry and cultivating wonder. For me, poetry doesn’t happen without attention. Turns out, being an observer, or a

Severance by Ling Ma A send-up and takedown of corporate drudgery, late-stage capitalism, and adulthood listlessness familiar to so many of us, Ling Ma’s Severance serves up a wry and tense satire featuring an eerily monotonous pandemic. Candace Chen, a millennial publishing drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is so devoted to routine she

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Our Zero to Well Read episode on “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville got me thinking of the form and how interesting it can be within the book club setting. If you haven’t already explored reading short stories

Where No Shadow Stays by Sara Hashem Seventeen-year-old Mina has always just kept her eyes on the prize. Asking her father to tell her anything about her Egyptian heritage or her mother’s mysterious death leads to silence. So when Mina is invited by her aunt to visit her mom’s childhood home, Haikal mansion, in El

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. There are so many excellent queer books out this year, and that’s a comfort in these trying times. Today, I’ve rounded up ten to have on your radar, but that just scratches the surface. There’s queer and trans

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Libraries and bookstores are magical places—full stop. So it’s no wonder that these repositories of stories have inspired countless tales of magic and wonder. After all, what better backdrop for a work of speculative fiction than the very

It is finally, officially Spring! Huzzah! With that comes the onset of awards season for some of the fiction world, particularly in regards to short fiction and science fiction/fantasy. I’ve covered short fiction and genre fiction awards eligibility before for Book Riot, and I always try to squeeze in roundups of the latest gems in