BOOK RIOT

BOOK RIOTby Community·22d ago

Awards season is upon us, and all week long, the National Book Award judges will be releasing their 2026 longlists across five categories.

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BOOK RIOTby Community·22d ago

Awards season is upon us, and all week long, the National Book Award judges will be releasing their 2026 longlists across five categories.

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BOOK RIOTby Megan Mabee·22d ago

If you haven’t yet watched the Apple TV series Slow Horses, I highly recommend checking it out, especially as the new season six premieres this month on September 16th.

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BOOK RIOTby Kelly Jensen·22d ago

It’s horror reading season, and I’ve been elbow-deep in reading scary YA Books. Part of it is because we’re entering the time of year for the 2027 Summer Scares list development, and part of it is...

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BOOK RIOTby Rachel Brittain·22d ago

Haunted house stories and horror don’t have to be historical, but there’s something about the genre of gothic fiction in particular that just feels right in a historical setting.

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BOOK RIOTby Connie Pan·22d ago

My passion for food is a long-held one. On and off for decades, I helped in my family’s Maui restaurant, and I spent over 20 years serving tables, baristaing, and bartending elsewhere.

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BOOK RIOTby Chris M. Arnone·22d ago

You can smell it in the air, right? That crispness. That edge of autumn chasing away summer. It means that spooky season is right around the corner.

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BOOK RIOTby Susie Dumond·22d ago

To some people, “Back to School” season means a new backpack, pristine notebooks, and a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils.

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BOOK RIOTby Guest·22d ago

Máire Roche is the author of the queer cozy fantasy Bromantasy. Her next novel is Situationship, out June 1, 2027 from Putnam. Today, Book Riot is hosting the cover reveal!

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BOOK RIOTby Community·22d ago

Bookish puzzles for fall fun It took me many years to fall in love with doing jigsaw puzzles, but when I realized I could puzzle while listening to audiobooks and podcasts, it became a hobby...

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BOOK RIOTby Community·23d ago

Awards season is upon us, and all week long, the National Book Award judges will be releasing their 2026 longlists across five categories.

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BOOK RIOTby Community·23d ago

Awards season is upon us, and all week long, the National Book Award judges will be releasing their 2026 longlists across five categories.

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BOOK RIOTby Katie McLain Horner·23d ago

Welcome back, library friends. Today, we’re talking all things Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, prison censorship, and more. Let’s dive in.

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BOOK RIOTby Liberty Hardy·23d ago

Get ready, because I’m going to do something wild and out of character and recommend books. Just kidding!

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BOOK RIOTby Erica Ezeifedi·23d ago

If she were still alive, Agatha Christie would be 136 years old today. Her legacy is so enduring that a character pair of hers who first appeared in 1922—detective couple Tommy and Tuppence...

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BOOK RIOTby Erica Ezeifedi·24d ago

When I first set out to compile a list of new books by Latine authors to kick off Latin Heritage Month (September 15-October 15), I had a mind to include a variety of genres.

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BOOK RIOTby R. Nassor·24d ago

Time to break out the Kleenex: these are romance books that will make you cry. I stand by the belief that in the bounds of romance, with a Happily Ever After (HEA) guaranteed, sadness is cathartic.

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BOOK RIOTby Jamie Canaves·24d ago

While I’ve spent the last decade writing and reading all things crime books for the Unusual Suspects newsletter, I’ve never stopped reading all the other genres.

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BOOK RIOTby Chris M. Arnone·24d ago

Intersex. The “I” in LGBTQIA+. How I was born. Intersex is an umbrella term that describes a number of biological variations that place people not neatly in the male or female binary.

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BOOK RIOTby Grace Lapointe·24d ago

Although the term romantasy may be new, the combination of fantasy with romance isn’t. Fantasy and romance are two of the most popular genres separately, and recently, they’re often blended as...

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