BOOK RIOT

BOOK RIOTby Liberty Hardy·14d ago

This post is inspired by a recent memory I had of a phone video game a friend used to play 20 years ago: Katamari Damacy Mobile.

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BOOK RIOTby Community·14d ago

This week’s bestselling books roundup is packed full of titles appearing here for the first time!

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BOOK RIOTby Kelly Jensen·14d ago

We’ve made it well past the halfway point of September. For those of you involved in the school year in some capacity–as an educator, student, parent, or otherwise–hopefully this first month has...

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BOOK RIOTby Silvana Reyes Lopez·14d ago

Oh, Adam and Olive, we love you in every universe. 2026 has really been the year for romance book adaptations with Off Campus and Every Year After.

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BOOK RIOTby Community·14d ago

The BIPOC books you need this fall How many BIPOC books have you read so far this year? If you’re struggling to remember any or feel bashful about your number, help is here.

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BOOK RIOTby Kendra Winchester·15d ago

I work at a bookshop, and my coworker and I were standing around the counter the other day, when she asked, “Kendra, what do you like to read in the fall?” I had to think about it for a second, but...

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BOOK RIOTby Kelly Jensen·15d ago

Dual release young adult books–that is, books that publish in both hardcover and paperback at the same time–have been growing in numbers over the last year.

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BOOK RIOTby Community·15d ago

25 years of some traveling pants One of the quintessential YA friendship books—and one many millennials recall with a particular fondness—turned 25 years old this year.

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BOOK RIOTby Erica Ezeifedi·15d ago

Libby has shared the top 10 most popular comic book checkouts across the more than 22,000 libraries they service, and 9/10 titles are historical fiction—more specifically, they are historical...

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BOOK RIOTby Community·16d ago

New online game show hosted by Kwame Alexander Story Showdown is the new online game show co-hosted and developed by award-winning and bestselling poet and author of children’s books, Kwame...

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BOOK RIOTby Community·16d ago

The Booker Prize honors the best work of fiction written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland annually.

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BOOK RIOTby Erica Ezeifedi·16d ago

There are a lot of big books coming out this fall, many of which will probably be covered in our round-up of what the biggest book clubs are reading.

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BOOK RIOTby Danika Ellis·16d ago

September 15th to October 15th is Latine Heritage Month, but there’s never a bad time to add more Latine lit to your reading list!

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BOOK RIOTby Katie McLain Horner·16d ago

Welcome back, library friends. Let’s put on our collection development hats and wade through this collection of links and updates.

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BOOK RIOTby Silvana Reyes Lopez·16d ago

With the massive success of the TV adaptations of Heated Rivalry and Off Campus, hockey romances are on the rise. They’re selling like hot cakes!

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BOOK RIOTby Liberty Hardy·16d ago

Recently, Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus celebrated its 15th anniversary. (Say it with me now: Whaaaaaat?)

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BOOK RIOTby Erica Ezeifedi·16d ago

Big Release Fall is officially underway! This means we’re getting Empire, the final book in a stunning YA romantasy duology, by Sabaa Tahir.

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BOOK RIOTby Guest·16d ago

Deena Helm is the author of Our Cut of Salt, out today from Tor Nightfire. Below, she discusses the relationship between haunted house stories and haunted history.

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BOOK RIOTby Erica Ezeifedi·17d ago

The National Book Award Longlists were just announced last week. The Awards have been around for almost 100 years (except for a WWII hiatus), and celebrate books published in the US by US authors.

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BOOK RIOTby Alice Nuttall·17d ago

I love YA thrillers, from murder mysteries to slashers, dark academia to teen detectives uncovering old crimes casting their shadows into the present day.

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