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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Yen Press, your favorite publisher of Japanese manga, comics, and novels. From the renowned science fiction author Cixin Liu comes a mind-bending comic adaptation of The Three-Body Problem! A series of mysterious suicides leads a detective and group

The Distance by Helen Giltrow I went into this knowing nothing about it and loved getting to experience how layered it was. Charlotte Alton lives in London and we don’t really know who she really is, nor anything about her past. Let’s just say she might be a fixer because someone from her past, Simon

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Catch up with the most popular stories from this week’s editions of Today in Books. Amazon Introduces First Color-Screen Kindle Amazon announced this morning that its refreshed e-reader lineup will include the company’s first Kindle with a color screen.

Liberty Hardy is an unrepentant velocireader, writer, bitey mad lady, and tattoo canvas. Turn-ons include books, books and books. Her favorite exclamation is “Holy cats!” Liberty reads more than should be legal, sleeps very little, frequently writes on her belly with Sharpie markers, and when she dies, she’s leaving her body to library science. Until

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Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The National Book Foundation has announced comedian and author Kate McKinnon as host of the 2024 National Book Awards, with musical guest Jon Batiste. This year marks 75 years of the National Book Awards, which honor the best

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Susie (she/her) is a queer writer originally from Little Rock, now living in Washington, DC. She is the author of QUEERLY BELOVED and the forthcoming LOOKING FOR A SIGN from Dial Press/Random House. You can find her on

Would it be the 2020s without a new contemporary romance by Emily Henry to look forward to? The mega bestselling author’s latest is titled Great Big Beautiful Life, and feels like it fits in a familiar groove. It’s a contemporary romance about two writers (like 2020’s Beach Read) that will, undoubtably, plumb the depths of

Book Deals The best book deals of the day, all hand picked by Book Riot. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Today’s Featured Book Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book Deals Previous Daily Deals Originally Posted Here

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

Here are the posts that, for whatever reason, got the most activity this week: Those times are long gone, as my eight-year-old loves to remind me, and so if you’re like me, and want some nostalgic reads or an escape from *waves hands* all of this, grab your favorite snack—bonus points if it’s something that

I was thinking about what I should write for today’s bonus Our Queerest Shelves content, and I realized that I haven’t just updated you on my reading in a while! Obviously, I read queer books all the time, but I don’t always mention them here. Let me know in the comments: would you like me

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. My personal internet this week was chock full of adaptation news, reviews, announcements, teases, reveals, and other digital publicity efforts. And you know what? I was into it. So as a way of covering some

Jaime Herndon finished her MFA in nonfiction writing at Columbia, after leaving a life of psychosocial oncology and maternal-child health work. She is a writer, editor, and book reviewer who drinks way too much coffee. She is a new-ish mom, so the coffee comes in extra handy. Twitter: @IvyTarHeelJaime View All posts by Jaime Herndon If

Rosie Schaap lost her husband to cancer at 42. Her mother died a year later, followed by her ancient, beloved cat. Awash in grief, Schaap needed a place to mourn. She would find it in Northern Ireland, a country still recovering from decades of sectarian strife known as the “troubles.” The Slow Road North: How

The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is getting a modern adaptation in The Grays, which is being developed by Netflix. The show is executively produced by Greg Berlanti’s production company, as well as Rina Mimoun (the showrunner), Lee Toland Krieger (the director), Katie Rose Rogers (the writer), Sarah Schechter, and Leigh London Redman.

Gina Maria Balibrera’s debut novel, The Volcano Daughters, offers the epic early 20th-century tale of sisters Graciela and Consuelo, born into poverty and servitude on a coffee finca (plantation) on the side of a volcano in El Salvador. In 1923, Graciela and her mother, Socorrito, are summoned to San Salvador for the funeral of the

Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor. She spends her free time reading, watching horror movies and musicals, cuddling cats, Instagramming pictures of cats, and blogging/podcasting about books with the ladies over

The Zebra’s Great Escape is a delightful, action-filled saga packed into picture book format—which its creators use to their full advantage. Katherine Rundell’s text brims with heart and humorous details, while Sara Ogilvie’s illustrations feature explosions of color that nicely contrast with the black-and-white zebras at the center of this adventure.  An exuberant girl nicknamed

As the last days of summer approach, we’re getting some great summer reading recaps. Most recently, three Bookshop.org members have rounded up their three favorite or recommended reads for summer. It’s a good mix of new, relatively new, and older releases. There are brilliant biographies, sobering sci-fi tales, and ravishing romances. Below are the 9

Have you ever wondered what happens to your trash? Or who lives next to landfills? Or why recycling is so complicated? If you struggle to wrap your mind around humankind’s relation to waste, check out Trash Talk: An Eye-Opening Exploration of Our Planet’s Dirtiest Problem by science writer and illustrator Iris Gottlieb. Gottlieb offers a

Book news itself wasn’t something we did much when Book Riot first started, but it has become and important part of what we do: from the Book Riot Podcast to Today in Books to Literary Activism and so on. Some stories come and go, but there are some stories that are part of fundamental questions

You might think you know what to expect from a book titled Voyage of the Damned. Author Frances White, I’m sure, will be pleased to upend your expectations. Murder, mystery and magic await, but there’s also a generous helping of humor, and an unforgettable narrator, too. Title be damned, this utter joy of a read

Welcome to Tuesday. Let’s read about books, shall we? It’s no surprise that historical fiction readers are always on the lookout for the next breakout title in the genre — can anyone unseat Kristin Hannah? Fall is the biggest publishing season of the year, and it brings some fantastic new historical fiction releases to the

In You Will Never Be Me, Jesse Q. Sutanto not only gives readers a voyeuristic glimpse into the lives of mom-fluencers, she pulls off a twist sure to surprise even veteran thriller readers. Meredith Lee and Aspen Palmer were once friends, but the cutthroat world of influencing has driven them to frenemy status. When they