Posts

Book Riot is teaming up with Inkyard Press to giveaway one YA Fantasy & Sci-Fi book bundle! Want more 3 on a YA Theme? We’ve got you covered!

We’re giving away ten of our favorite works of nonfiction of the year! Click here to enter. We all know that books make awesome gifts: they provide hours of entertainment, they’re relatively affordable, and there’s a book for everyone on your holiday shopping list! Plus, books are also very beautiful. Not to throw shade at audio or ebooks, but some books just deserve to be purchased in print because their packaging is a work of art....

Regardless of where you pace it out, the region boasts quite a few literary achievements: it’s home to James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales (including Last of the Mohicans), Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (yes, it’s a real place), Justin Torres’s We The Animals, and Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt. Western Upstate’s Burned Over District spawned a myriad religious movements such as: the Second Great Awakening, Mormonism, and Spiritualism....

Here is to 2020 and another 30 memoirs. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country By Pam Houston Lesson: There is a deep solace in solitude, space and getting snowed in. The power of the mountains conquers even the darkest memories and the magic works even better when we share it with others. Claiming Ground By Laura Bell Lesson: The Wyoming wind only calls a select few, but those it does are a lucky bunch—Caluses, sunburn, frostbite, hardship and all....

Book Riot is teaming up with Macmillan eDeals to give away a pair of AirPods Pro to one lucky winner! Simply fill out the form and subscribe to the Macmillan eDeals newsletter for a chance to win! Here’s a bit more about our sponsor: Be the first to hear about our down-priced eBooks across a variety of genres from your favorite authors, starting at $2.99! The ALA digs into the value of board games in libraries, writing, “Public libraries have a mission to provide a variety of materials in a variety of formats....

Attend a Virtual Con Gatherings of 50+ people causing problems? How about a virtual gathering to celebrate your favorite things online? That sounds more like it! The HPA (that’s the Harry Potter Alliance) has created a virtual convention—Small Things Con—to bring a little light to the darkness, because, in the immortal words of Dumbledore: “Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light....

5 Autumnal Books to Read in October The Diviners by Libba Bray October is the perfect time to crack open the first book in Libba Bray’s series set in the 1920s following Evie O’Neill, a socialite who is shipped off from her tiny town to live with her eccentric uncle in New York City. As she spends nights in speakeasies, meeting an eclectic group of characters along the way, and enjoying her newfound freedom, her uncle gets called in to help investigate the mysterious death of a girl who is found covered in unnerving symbols....

Yet, there was something about the 1965 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith that captured my attention later on. There was a certain villainous character by the name of Cruella De Vil that seemed entirely evil, yet, entirely full of sass. I loved her fashion sense in the Disney film, which I watched eagerly as a kid, and now that Disney is releasing the live action film Cruella, I was inspired to research more about the character in 2021....

I left her office with a prescription for a pregnancy safe antibiotic, a wad of cotton stuck in my weeping ear, and a completely shocked look on my face. I was so surprised because I considered myself to be a well-read pregnant person. In none of my books did it inform me that you could have a pregnancy-induced eardrum explosion. It took about three months for my ear to heal completely....

For more Kindle Unlimited recommendations, check out this list. While the criminal justice system has deemed Gina innocent in Melvin’s crimes, the court of public opinion hasn’t. Gina must fight to protect herself and her children from those that are set on doing them wrong, and it’s a long list. The families of Melvin’s victims are organizing to track her down. Strangers on the dark web issue a constant barrage of graphic threats....

This list is longer and broader, and the characters are more diverse⁠—you’ll find a murderer, a few scientists, a space traveler, a detective or two, a famous actress, and an entrepreneur, along with homemakers, grandmothers, and retirees. The women in these stories range in age from age 50 to 110 and represent a wide variety of experiences, personalities, and genres. All these novels feature older women as crucial characters. Enjoy!...

Find below a roundup of some of the most exciting YA paperbacks hitting shelves this fall. 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 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....

North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah December 4 | Riverhead Books After their beloved son, Dhaqaneh, turns to jihadism and blows himself up in a suicide attack, his parents, two Somalian immigrants living in Oslo, take in Dhaqaneh’s wife and children. But as his wife withdraws more deeply into religion, his children are enthralled by the freedoms of their new homeland, fracturing the fault lines of a family already on the brink....

But lately, I’ve been particularly transfixed by horror that focuses on feelings of claustrophobia and unseen menace. As a grownass adult whose day-to-day fears revolve around being trapped by the consequences of my terrible decisions (schedule shift; career move; poor spending choice; ill-advised parenting tactic), this seems apt. And perhaps no book has embodied these fears as perfectly as Josh Malerman’s Bird Box. When I first read Bird Box, a work of literary horror that has since been adapted (and quite well) by Netflix, it was just a few months before my daughter was born, a life change that would shrink my world, leave me feeling at times constricted....

at Book Marks: 10 New Books About Womxn’s History for Womxn’s History Month at Brightly: 9 Boredom-Busting Activity Books for Kids at Bustle: 25 Romance Novels & Erotic Books To Keep You Company During Quarantine at BuzzFeed: 25 Books So Good You’ll Probably Want To Stay In All Day Reading at Crime Reads: Six Great Novels About Crime That Aren’t Quite Crime Novels at Electric Lit: 8 Books to Feed Your “Love Is Blind” Obsession at Epic Reads: 16 Books That Will Speak to Your Introverted Soul at Food52: 10 Books to Warm the Soul (or Just Distract It) at Get Literary: What’s Silkpunk?...

Time passes, of course. In the years since then I’ve entirely lost sight of zines and the DIY culture around it. Though I still scrapbook, I haven’t ever given thought to putting my own work into publication. It seems the 6-year-old in me has gotten lost in the mega capitalist infrastructure, and I reckon it’s time to change that and embrace my inner 6-year-old. So I’m going to try and make a zine – and maybe some other Rioters might want to join in....

Explore 21 days of creative spiritual practices drawing from ancient wisdom and pop culture in this award-winning guide to modern spirituality. Part memoir, part inspiring guide, Sarah confesses her challenges with her birth religion, descent into addiction, and recovery into a life where everything can be sacred, offering readers easy practices for experiencing more meaningful moments in their own lives. Nautilus Book Award Winner | A Spirituality & Health Magazine “100 Books We Love” Pick

For many readers, books are a sacred object and reading is a meaningful activity that takes readers to a higher connection with the Divine, which you can interpret as any religion or no religion at all. “The Divine” might very well be agnostic, atheist, or faith-based. What I take “The Divine” in reading practice is a deep connection to literature, poetry, books, and writing. The fact is, for many people, reading is a spiritual activity....

Provocative and fast-paced, S. A. Cosby’s Razorblade Tears is a story of bloody retribution, heartfelt change - and maybe even redemption. Summer Reading Programs Almost all public libraries in the United States host some form of summer reading programs. These programs are designed to boost reading skills during the summer, with activities, prizes, and events. Summer reading programs have been around since the 1890s! These programs started as a way to encourage kids who lived in cities to read during their summer vacation, so they wouldn’t lose their hard earned skills....