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So, you can imagine my excitement about some amazing YA dystopian and apocalyptic books hitting shelves soon and that have hit shelves recently. Filled with drama, action, and relatable characters just trying to get through it all, I’ve picked three of my upcoming favorites, and one newly-released dystopian treasure. So, read on and make room on your shelf for these books that will surely stay with you, like The Hunger Games and Divergent series did for me, and welcome some new dystopian and apocalyptic worlds....

What other romantic reads do you recommend we pick up this summer? I’m in need of more! Let us know on Twitter @BookRiot or let me know directly @AuroraMiami. But, when cute Jaewoo shows up at her uncle’s karaoke bar one fateful night, Jenny is smitten and decides to throw caution to the wind and spend an unforgettable evening with him. Why, not? She’s sure she will never see him again, so it won’t put a damper on any of her carefully curated plans for her professional life....

There’s a second thread that runs through manga, however: that of those who are underestimated because they’re small, but who more than make up for their size with skill, training, and determination. They’re the first ones on the field or court in the morning, the last ones to leave at night, always willing to give more when someone else would give up, generous to a fault, and definitely the person you’d want guarding your back....

Reader, I swore, and then I hit the library. I wanted something that would help me learn how Not To Do This in the future, but also something that would inspire me. I’ve read a lot of dressmaking books in the hope of finding this perfect thing; yet the more I read, the more I realised they tended to work towards one standard body type. And as a plus-sized woman, I didn’t want that....

A good book makes the best gift. Check off your holiday shopping list with the best books for friends and family. It’s supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, but we all know the holiday season is stressful as heck. The kind of stress we find ourselves under varies from person to person, and the impetus for it can originate from myriad sources, but the end result is the same: a need for escape....

It’s hard to try a new storytelling medium when you’re not even sure where to start or if you’ll even like it. I didn’t grow up reading comics, so I get it! But there are so many good stories being told in comics now, it’s worth the effort to try to find some you will enjoy. I find a good introduction to reading comics is by trying the same genre or stories you enjoy reading in prose books, such as fantasy....

Basically, instead of spending all their cash on stuff, people who are part of the FIRE movement use “extreme” saving and investment to help them retire early and live off the interest. Doesn’t sound doable? The authors of the following books would disagree, and you may as well once you read them. You Need a Budget by Jesse Mecham If you want to be on the road to financial independence, you need a budget, and Mecham’s book about budgeting is the best one I’ve ever encountered....

Fiction more your jam? I have something for you, too.

We are living in uncertain and frightening times, and the foe in our midst is invisible to the naked eye. One way to help combat fear from what we are dealing with is to understand the thing better and arm ourselves with knowledge. So let’s talk about viruses. We’ve pointed you in the direction of reads detailing other pandemics that humanity has faced; now, we’ll take a closer look at the viral perpetrators themselves....

Here are five shorter novels to keep you reading. They are all very different, which should come as no surprise given the different places they come from. The only thing they have in common is that I think they will be fast reads so I hope some of them appeal to you. So that is my list! I hope you find some of these enticing. If you need help with your reading goals, here are some tips or if you like, you could try to read more backlist titles....

Poetry has proven that it can be both a lesson in history and in the makeup of my own heart. The medium can make me work, stopping me mid-sentence to look up a name or the significance of a street. It can also push me to examine why I know nothing of some events. What have I been reading that history so precious to my favorite poets is fresh news to me?...

I think it’s clear now that my favorite kind of graphic work is one that has a nonfiction element. Be it a biography, memoir, or just fun facts, I always feel like I am entering the best class I have ever attended in my life when I open one. Recently I have been reading several graphic biographies, backlist and new, about activists and artists. The ones I recommend below are some of my favorites....

Not only is she an impressive writer, but she is a prolific reader, as well. Luckily for us, she makes no attempts at hiding the books she reads. If she loves a book you will either find a review on her Goodreads page, a tweet with current favorites, or a blurb on the cover of a book. So I’ve rounded up 50 books endorsed by Roxane to tide us over until we can get our fix of her next piece of incredible writing....

Novels about music 1. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby “Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection?” 2. Jazz by Toni Morrison “In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death....

That is the power of historical fiction. It transports readers to other points in time, while explaining important events through stories and illustrations. Here is a list of 50 must read historical fiction picture books. Prehistoric Fiction 1. One Small Blue Bead By Byrd Baylor Though only Boy shares his dream, the old man leaves the tribe to search for what the world may hold. Boy does the old man’s work in his absence and watches hopefully for his return…...

Descriptions graciously supplied from publisher descriptions and condensed when necessary. Agorafabulous! by Sara Benincasa The Body Papers by Grace Talusan Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan “…Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity. When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there....

These stories range from 100% fluffy (we’re talking rainbow unicorns sprouting glitter from their horns, folks) to all-the-angst-that’s-fit-to-print-in-150-pages-or-less, and everything in between. Whether you’re looking for holiday stories, meet-cutes, vampires, shifters, chosen family, rock stars, friends-to-lovers, or historical shenanigans–these queer romance novellas have got it all. These books range in length from 40ish to 150ish pages. Technically some of them might be novelettes, and a few might be very short novels, but who cares, this isn’t academia....

Here’s a look at some of the most exciting YA paperbacks hitting shelves this winter. As always, publication dates can shift, so these are as current as can be expected. Some of these books are paperback originals—meaning they’ll only ever release in paperback—while others are YA reissues. Still others are first releases of paperbacks from books that have already been published in hardcover. I’ve stuck to first books in a series only, so know there are additional paperback releases of series books but they’re not the start of those series....

While some apps focus on narration of a single page, others can be used to make PDFs or other files into audio versions that can be listened to later. The app you choose to read to you will be based upon your own preferences, but you may find it helpful to test out or even routinely use a variety of apps to meet your reading needs! 1. Natural Reader One of the most intuitive and easy to use text to voice programs, Natural reader offers a variety of, well, natural, voices to read your text....

As the author of the first book on this list, Desmond Cole, writes: “This idea that Canada’s racial injustices are not as bad as they could be, this notion of Slavery Lite, of Racism Lite, of what my friend calls the ‘toy version of racism’ is a very Canadian way of saying: remember what we could do to you if we wanted to. Passive-aggressive racism is central to Canada’s national mythology and identity....