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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall Catch-22 by Joseph Heller China Dolls by Lisa See Code Girls by Liza Mundy Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Flygirl by Sherri L....

Some of you are in the same boat with me, and some have yet to approach the vessel o’ short fiction. That’s why I asked all our seasoned lovers of bite-sized stories for outstanding short stories to read next! You gave us short stories, collections, and anthologies galore. Without further ado, here are 53 of your favorites! “For Esmé with Love and Squalor” by J. D. Salinger A Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F Scott Fitzgerald Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W Somerset Maugham Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami “The Boy Nobody Could Handle” by Kurt Vonnegut “The Bungalow House” by Thomas Ligotti By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain by Joe Hill Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian K Jarboe; Exhalation by Ted Chiang Foggy Mountain Breakdown by Sharyn McCrumb, Ford County by John Gresham Fox 8 by George Saunders; Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman “The Gift of the Magi” by O....

Aside from the obvious and myriad ways I find this form of censorship deeply disturbing (and infuriating), I also find myself concerned in my capacity as the parent of a young child. As the American College on Obstetricians and Gynecologists has found, there are so many important gains accomplished through a comprehensive sexuality education. Yet with books about puberty, anatomy, sex, and sexuality being targeted in book banning campaigns, kids’ ability to access materials that will help them gain this education (especially when their parents or schools will not) is in serious peril....

But I’m 29 now and will be 30 next March, and I can’t help but think that 30-year-old me deserves the reading experience that 10-year-old me had. That inner child needs to be happy as well, and nothing makes her happier than books (and perhaps fudge brownies). So can an adult woman read like a kid again? Here are a few ideas. Reading is as much reading as it is an experience....

However, my interest was piqued with the recent appearance of a Muslim female superhero, Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, first written by G. Willow Wilson and continued by Nilah Magruder in the Marvel Rising series. Then when I heard there would be an Islam and Comics panel (Super Salaam!) at Comic Con International this year, I went down a new rabbit hole. All the way down to San Diego, to my first ever Comic Con....

At least we’re back in the Paris Accords (same thing as the Pittsburgh Accords, BTW, proud to say we never left). Ahem. Anyway. Now that it’s nearing closer to spring we’re getting winter, but fear not! There are tons of new comics coming out in the next couple of months that you can read out under the trees or inside under three blankets next to the heater, depending on where you live and whether or not the giant rodent’s completely random prediction is accidentally right....

During his long and illustrious career, Lee created such household names as Spider-Man, The Avengers, X-Men, and Black Panther. With the big Marvel hype over the past few years, even if you aren’t a huge comics buff, you’ve probably seen Lee several times. He was sure to make a funny cameo in the movies based on his work. Most recently, he appeared as a jaded school bus driver taking Peter Parker and his classmates on a field trip in Infinity War....

The collection launches on March 8th to mark International Women’s Day. Rioters, every March 8th for the past five years I have been asked when International Men’s Day is. This year, I am hoping to avoid this brand of idiocy, but in case this happens to you, please note that International Men’s Day is on November 19th and that the ‘block’ button is your friend. The premise of Nasty Women is pretty simple: life as a woman right now is bloody hard, and the normalisation of inequality is persistently marching forward....

The 15% tariffs were a continuation of the White House’s prolonged “trade war” with China and would have affected children’s picture books, drawing books, and coloring books, as well as printed calendars and postcards, Publishers Weekly reports. The news follows the first round of 10% tariffs, which went into effect September 1 and affected virtually all other printed books, with one notable exception: religious texts. The suspension of the December tariffs comes after the United States and China reached a “phase one” trade agreement....

Downie is a beer historian and she is involved in “local and national collaborations with other archives and historians as well as local outreach…Much time has been spent building personal connections with local brewers to prove that CSUSM is serious about this project. And it has paid off: Stone Brewing, the largest brewery in Southern California, has donated hundreds of boxes of its archival materials.” More information about the project can be found here....

If you’re anything like me, you’ve been humming Ariana Grande’s newest song to yourself since it came out a couple of weeks ago. You might have seen the memes on Twitter, too, where people reminisce about TV crushes – or even TV shows – that have also taught them love, patience, and pain. I asked my fellow Rioters which books have played those roles in their lives. Here’s what they said....

2021 has been a good year for book clubs, which means 2021 has been a good year for book club books. So much of the world seems out of our control, and it’s been comforting to escape into a good book and connect with friends about it. If your book club is looking for new books from this year to read and discuss, there are so many great options from this year....

How I Made This List of The Top Romance Books on Goodreads In short, these are the top rated books (a combination of most ratings and highest ratings) that are shelved as romance and meet my definition of the genre: the romance must be central to the plot, and there must be a happy ending. Also I disqualified certain writers who insist that their books, which otherwise fit the description, are not romance, because if you smack talk the genre you don’t get to play (even if you have a nap room or a successful STARZ series)....

In Detransition, Baby, the lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires. Reese almost had it all, but then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Ames isn’t happy either. He thought detransitioning would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship—and his only family. When Ames’s boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she’s pregnant—Ames wonders whether the three of them could form some kind of unconventional family and raise the baby together....

When it comes to nonfiction, I’m not picky: I’ll read almost anything, as long as it captures my interest and is well-written, with bonus points if it makes me think about something I never really thought about before. Lucky for me (and you!) there are a bunch of great nonfiction books being published this month: memoirs, sociological explorations, science books by notable figures, parenting books, essays, and much more. I’ve rounded up ten new nonfiction releases that you’ll want to check out, including books exploring disability justice, religious identity, family, queer identity, intergenerational trauma, and the pandemic....

That’s what I’m here to help with. Because I’ve thrown myself into a lot of books that were too hard for me, and come out the other side. In my senior year of high school, I decided to read Ulysses by James Joyce solely because my favorite English teacher loved Joyce. With no preparation, no knowledge of references, nothing, I just kind of dove in. I didn’t understand it all, but I finished it, and enjoyed it....

“Obviously, some of these titles may seem familiar: You likely had to read them in high school and/or college. For the data collection here, the term “classic” only referred to books that had “over 100,000+ Goodreads reviews, written before 1970 and not targeted towards children or forming an integral part of a series” (sorry, Little Women and Lord Of The Rings). Unsurprisingly, Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird topped the “beloved” list, followed by John Steinbeck’s modern biblical epic East Of Eden and Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind....

It was a funny conversation with my classmates once I got back to California. Their eyes were wide and amazed. You were on a train? Apparently it wasn’t cool to read about the Hogwarts Express, but it was cool to sleep on a train cot in India watching the countryside whiz past and eating chaat handed to me through the window by a vendor while headed to Rajasthan (actually, it was cool)....

Manga and anime are a phenomenon that in my experience students flock to and never really get out of. That’s a good thing in my opinion, and I run a weekly manga club to bring in new faces and to let the students watch Studio Ghibli films or other anime. It’s a huge hit and a lot of fun. I would recommend starting a manga club to any school librarian if you have the time....

…picture books and juvenile paperbacks are also easier to lay flat or hold up than hefty, hardcover adult books, but I digress. As books became more of a factor in my daily work thanks to grad school, library work, and a career in book reviewing, it became less easy to do the read-anywhere thing. Reading on a public bus comes with all sorts of noisy/nosy people frustrations, as does any public reading; reading chairs in school libraries are somehow rarely roomy enough to curl up in; and reading in bed, already an uncomfortable prospect, leads to swift snoring after a long day....