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The 2024 Publishing Year in Review

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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. A little something different today. Every Monday on the Book Riot Podcast, Jeff O’Neal and I discuss the most interesting news in the world of books and reading. It’s a lot like what we do
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The Top Book News of the Week

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The Most Borrowed Books in New York City Libraries in 2024 It is one of the greater strangeness of New York City that it’s libraries are more a confederation that an an integrated system, but one interesting effect is that because of this, data is collected by borough, which shows how the different parts of the
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My Least Favorite Queer Books of 2024

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I read a lot of queer books—that probably won’t come as a surprise to you. That means it’s inevitable that I’ll pick up some queer books I don’t like, but I usually keep that to myself. I’d rather
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The Books New York Times Readers Loved in 2024

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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Books New York Times Readers Loved in 2024 The NYT continues to slice and dice best-of coverage in 2024, from all-century selection all the way today to reader choices for favorite books of 2024.
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More of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year, Plus a Look Into the Troubles in Northern Ireland

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kendra Winchester is a Contributing Editor for Book Riot where she writes about audiobooks and disability literature. She is also the Founder of Read Appalachia, which celebrates Appalachian literature and writing. Previously, Kendra co-founded and served as Executive
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The 39 Most Anticipated Books of 2025

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The 39 Most Anticipated Books of 2025 It’s time. 2025 is two weeks away, 2024 new releases have
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The Best Book Club Books of 2024

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused
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Publishers Weekly Announces Their Person of the Year

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Liz Pelletier Named Publishers Weekly Person of the Year Pelletier had an excellent case to be named PW’s
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The Biggest Publishing News of the Week

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Grab a cup of something tasty and catch up with the news stories Today in Books readers found most interesting this week. Groundbreaking Poet Nikki Giovanni Dies at 81 Beloved poet Nikki Giovanni has died at the age of
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All the Bookish News We Covered This Week

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Rebecca Joines Schinsky Chief of Staff Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the executive director of product and ecommerce at Riot New Media Group. She co-hosts All the Books! and the Book Riot Podcast. Follow her on Twitter: @rebeccaschinsky. View All posts by Rebecca Joines Schinsky Monday through Friday, Today in Books highlights news from around the
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There’s No Place Like Horror for the Holidays

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Christmas and Other Horrors edited by Ellen Datlow Why read one holiday horror story when you could read 17? Christmas and Other Horrors, edited by Hugo Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow, features new horror stories about Christmas and the winter solstice by many of your favorite horror authors, including Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, Josh Malerman,
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Book Censorship News, December 13, 2024

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We’re going to see more laws similar to these popping up, as both Utah and South Carolina’s work has not yet been challenged or defeated in court as unconstitutional. Indeed, for all of the wailing about “local control” and “parental rights,” what will happen is a continued loss of local control and parental rights as
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Titles To Get Stuck in Your Head

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You Belong to Me by Hayley Krischer (April 15) This might be the only book on this list that’s not a capital-R romance, though sapphic romance plays a big part in this psychological thriller. If you, like me, are obsessed with pyramid schemes and especially those related to the beauty industry (think books like Rouge
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Innovative Study by UPenn and NYPL Finds That Public Libraries Positively Impact Community Health and Well-Being

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And, while the surveys collected and analyzed in the study were specific to the New York Public Library, researchers believe they can be extended to other libraries—be they in rural, urban, or suburban areas—across the country. Daphna Blatt, the NYPL’s Senior Director of Strategy & Public Impact and one of the people involved in the
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The 10 Worst Book-to-Screen Adaptations

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. “The book was better” isn’t always true…but it’s a cliché for a reason. Readers know that unique heartbreak of having a favorite book be mangled in the adaptation. But which adaptations did the worst job with the source
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