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Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio. Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall for $1.99 The Shadows by Alex North for $2.99 Graceling by Kristin Cashore for $3.99 The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg for $2.99 I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones, Gilly Segal for $1.99 These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong for $1.99 If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio for $2....

The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe for $2.99 Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor for $2.99 Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke for $4.99 A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay for $2.99 Basic Witches by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman for $2.99 What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah for $1.99 HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt for $2.99 Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years by David Litt for $3....

Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Fence: Striking Distance. The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory for $4.99 All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace for $2.99 Whistleblower & Never Say Die by Tess Gerritsen for $2.99 Clay’s Ark by Octavia E. Butler for $1.99 The Red Tent by Anita Diamant for $2.99 The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo for $2.99 Down and Across by Arvin Ahmadi for $2....

There aren’t nearly enough queer sibling books yet, but this list is definitely a start. In some of them, the sibling relationships are front and center. In others, these relationships are just a small part of the book. Sometimes the fact of their shared queerness is the thing that defines the characters and their relationships to each other. And sometimes that shared queernesses is quiet, hardly spoken aloud. I love how many the different ways these authors have found to portray queer siblings in all their complexity....

The teaser trailer is only 15 seconds long and shows BTS artists wielding sparkling, magical power. Despite giving very little information about the project, it’s already racked up more than 1.5 million views. This is the first in a series of partnerships between Wattpad/WEBTOON and HYBE artists, with six total webcomic/webnovel projects planned. Find more news and stories of interest from the book world in Breaking in Books.

Well, yes. And trust me, facing this fact isn’t fun. Last January, after an exhilarating four-hour journey through Ready Player One, I had a revelation that pleasure reading is infinitely more gratifying than marathoning shows on Netflix. I decided to commit to the 2018 Goodreads Reading Challenge and to set my initial goal at 50 books. At the end of January, I had dived through ten books, so I thought that reading 100 by the end of the year was feasible....

And that’s all well and good, but many of us regular humans cannot grow or maintain a head of hair like comic book heroes can. But there is hope, because comics have increasingly showcased a variety of different, more experimental hairstyles and some of them are even rockable by mere mortals. Now, as fall (the season of fashion!) approaches, and our summer hair grows out, is the perfect time to look to comics for some hairspiration....

Early this spring I had finished Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism by Seyward Darby, which follows three women who either are or were prominent members of the Alt-right movement here in the United States. Both books are necessary reads for anyone interested in gender equality and they overlap in many ways. Before I discuss these overlaps, I wanted to give a quick definition of American “whiteness....

Despite her parents’ struggles with addiction, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instability around the edges? Dancyger’s father, Joe Schactman, was part of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene. He created provocative sculptures out of found materials like animal bones, human hair, and broken glass, and brought his young daughter into his gritty, iconoclastic world....

A spellbinding fantasy novel set in the Mughal India-inspired world of Empire of Sand. Some believe the Ambhan Empire is cursed. But Arwa doesn’t simply believe it — she knows it’s true. Widowed by the infamous, unnatural massacre at Darez Fort, Arwa was saved only by the strangeness of her blood — a strangeness she had been taught all her life to suppress. She offers up her blood and service to the imperial family, and makes common cause with a disgraced, illegitimate prince who has turned to forbidden occult arts to find a cure to the darkness hanging over the Empire....

From the moment Carli and Rex first locked eyes, they both knew it was love. That kind of connection, of immediate understanding of another person, just doesn’t come along very often. And as rising stars on their Texas high school’s respective basketball teams, destined for futures in professional leagues, it seems like a match made in heaven. But Carli and Rex both have secrets. Carli hates basketball and the only reason she hasn’t quit is that she can’t picture what comes next, what dream she’s going to pour her soul into....

While there are usually some deaths and murders in cozy mysteries, they’re not graphic or gory, making these the perfect spring reads to take along to outdoor picnics or family gatherings to jump in and out of. There are also cozy mysteries for whatever kind of hobby you’re into: gardening, crafting, hand-lettering stationery, and a whole lot more! To find your next cozy mystery read, perfect for the changing seasons, design your perfect spring day, and we’ll give you a book that perfectly fits your ideal spring mood — whether it’s gardening all day or staying inside to hide from the rain....

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying there aren’t any. (Sure, they don’t come up on my random scrolling, but since my quest for romantic stories all about the HEA has made it so my algorithm is full of Korean and Filipino romances and romcoms… :shrug-emoji:) But for the most part, I can find one or two of those things, but not all of them. And they’re definitely not by queer creators....

Ghosts and books go together well, if you believe pop culture. From Ghostbusters to haunted libraries, the spirits live spending time browsing or dropping or otherwise engaging with tomes old and new. I like to believe that ghosts realize they didn’t finish their towering TBRs while on the side of the living, so they’re trying to catch up (and we don’t actually know by any scientific means if they do or don’t read because how would we know what happens in the ghost world?...

The book was brought to class by a student, who asked the teacher to read it out loud. Some students asked questions, mostly about puberty. When students told their parents about the book’s subject matter, some parents complained to the district that the book was shared without their permission. In response, the district has suspended its Diversity Equity Council, as well as an equity books program that the Council worked on....

This saying has always irritated me. I find it vague, presumptuous, and ethically questionable. Some people use it as an excuse to justify plagiarism or appropriation. An extreme interpretation implies that the ends justify the means: that the production of “great art” justifies breaches of ethics. This feels like circular logic to me, conflating what some artists do with impunity with what all artists can and should do. There’s also no consensus on what makes someone a “great artist....