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This collection of audiobooks features classic stories and favorite fairy tales and reimagines them with modern flair. Marissa Meyer takes on Rumpelstiltskin in Gilded, Lauren Blackwood gives an Ethiopian-inspired fantasy twist to Jane Eyre in Within These Wicked Walls, Alix E. Harrow puts her own spin on Sleeping Beauty in A Spindle Splintered, and more. Hear them all now! Retellings are a way of reimagining the possibilities, the what-ifs. What if Cinderella never made it to the ball?...

Sylvia Plath has come to mean a kind of shorthand, both culturally and in literary circles. You could say the same about Anne Sexton, although much less so, at least in my opinion. Plath has come to be a symbol of an angsty, depressed teen girl who takes herself too seriously and listens to a lot of Tori Amos or Portishead. If you let slip in an MFA class that your favorite writers are Plath and Sexton, I can only imagine the kind of judgment you might meet or the glances that would be exchanged among classmates....

Nubia is technically the first Black woman superhero from DC Comics. Some will argue that it’s Bumblebee, despite her coming a few years later. However, Nubia has just been waiting for someone to write her and fans like myself have been waiting too. So if you are excited about Nubia, catch up on a little history here and start making room for everything Nubia on your comic shelf. Who is Nubia?...

From the moment I heard about the book, back when it sold, I knew I wanted to read it just from the single sentence blip in Publisher’s Marketplace. Everything about this awkward love story has me screaming for an early read. Hint, hint, Putnam. And I’m so excited to have the exclusive cover reveal here, for you Book Riot readers. Here’s a blip about the book from the publisher: Elouise (Lou) Parker is determined to have the absolute best, most impossibly epic summer of her life....

Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned. As a huntsman of the Church, Reid Diggory has lived his life by one principle: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. But when Lou pulls a wicked stunt, the two are forced into an impossible situation—marriage....

The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding Do you have a hankering for a burger? Maybe some fries? Roll up your sleeves and pick up this charming story of young love and, of course, burgers. The story follows Abby, a plus-size style blogger and high school student living her dream as an intern at her favorite clothing store. There, she connects with Jordi, a girl who attends high school with Abby....

The Rings of Power takes place thousands of years before the events of the three Lord of the Rings movies and The Hobbit. In the fight against an evil force, familiar characters like Galadriel, Elrond, and Sauron play major roles, as do many newer ones, like the first female dwarf in any Tolkien adaptation, and the Harfoots, a race from which the Hobbits descended. After today’s premiere, new episodes of The Rings of Power are set to release every Friday at 12 AM ET until the show’s end....

Magic on the map: Let’s Mooove! by Courtney Sheinmel and Bianca Turetsky, illustrated by Stevie Lewis When Finn and Molly’s dad bring home a camper, the twins are not happy about it. It looks boring, and they agree with their mom—the RV needs to go. But when curiosity brings them both inside the vehicle to explore, they discover this is not a normal camper. The PET (Planet Earth Transport) begins talking to them and transports them instantly to Colorado....

Goosebumps continues to delight and thrill, both with nostalgia and not. Readers are still discovering it anew, and with a live-action adaptation in the works, long-time fans are rediscovering the series and all it brought to their young lives. Let’s take a look at some of the fun Goosebumps swag you can snag and show off your love of the creepy series. Whether you slide this into Why I’m Afraid of Bees or Jane Eyre, this Goosebumps bookmark will keep your place…and it glows in the dark!...

via GIPHY Firstly, our quarterly exclusive store deal, available at all levels, is now expanding to include outside vendors! There are so many products and companies that we love, and we wanted to share those with you. This means that every three months there will be a new featured vendor whom we’ve worked with to create a deal just for you. via GIPHY We’re also adding perks to the Novel level!...

First thing first: No shame. No fear. Let’s get educated and help educate the rest of the world for menstrual equality. Because, hey, half-ish of the population gets their period, and it’s the most basic bodily function, and it shouldn’t be kept a secret anymore. These books cover a variety of period-related topics, from a smart primer about the menstrual movement (and everything you need to know about periods), to the political period activism of the world, to harnessing your period to work with you, and essays and a memoir about not-so-great periods....

In 2015, DC began a new initiative called DCYou. It was creator-driven, light on continuity, and explicitly committed to diversity—well, diversity of tone and style, at least. (More on that later.) One of the new books in this roster was Doctor Fate. Now, Doctor Fate was not a new concept. In fact, the original Doctor Fate is one of DC’s oldest characters, debuting in 1940. He was originally Kent Nelson, whose vast magical powers derive from his golden helmet which houses an ancient godlike entity called Nabu, one of the Lords of Order....

Despite this indifference, I do have strong feelings about classics and their merit. Here’s what I’ve come to believe in recent years: classics are worthwhile and important, even vital, but not necessarily for themselves. They matter because of the retellings they inspire. I don’t remember reading Peter Pan as a kid. I did read it as a young adult, 20 years ago, and I must have enjoyed it because I gave it four stars....

Equinox Books is a traditional, small press looking for compelling genre fiction–fantasy, mystery, romance, thrillers, and everything in between. We want it all, but we especially want Books to Live In. You know that book, the one on your shelf with the cracked spine, the notes in the margin, the tabbed pages. It’s well loved, and it’s a book you’ve lived in. If you’ve written one of those, send it over....

In this dark, suspenseful thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town. “The Whisper Man is the most unsettling thriller I have read since Jo Nesbo’s The Snowman. Much more than the sum of its parts, it is nightmarish and disturbing and, at the same time, a moving and life-affirming novel about fathers and sons, and grief, loss, and recovery....

Maybe I’m so fascinated by the cultural studies surrounding generational divides because I’ve never felt readily attached to any given generation. I was born in 1997, so if you want to get technical, some would say that makes me part of Generation Z (I do have a TikTok, but I’m not very good at it and still don’t really get how it works, OK? OK.) But it feels jarring to call myself part of Gen Z when, growing up, people my age were almost always lumped together with Millennials: a generation which, once upon a time, was defined as people born between 1980 and 2000....

Here are five graphic novels you might want to spend some time with if you’re curious about elements of The Ghost Bride. The Undertaking of Lily Chen by Danica Novgorodoff The Undertaking of Lily Chen explores the darker side of the ghost bride tradition; cases in which the family wanted to marry a deceased girl to the deceased, single man and a suitable girl couldn’t be found. Though rare, there are stories that suggest from time to time, in such circumstances, young women were murdered to meet the family’s needs....

In the tradition of many precocious readers, I approached these books by skipping over the words and concepts I didn’t understand. I did not know words like “tangible” or why “the wineglass has more impact than the cup.” I got the gist of what was happening. I knew that Sabine had been able to see Griffin’s artwork in her mind’s eye for years and that they fell in love through their (beautiful, disturbing) postcards and letters but that they were somehow in different, parallel worlds....

What is BL? Boys Love, also known as BL, is a genre of manga that features two men – or boys, if it has a high school setting – falling in love. BL is also an umbrella term, encapsulating other genres like shonen-ai and yaoi, among others. For an in-depth introduction to BL manga, check out this wonderful post. BL sometimes includes Korean webtoons or manhwa, but for the purposes of this list, we’re sticking to manga....