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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. 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,

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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

August 23, 2024, 1:57pm Image from The J.D. Salinger Literary Trust, photographed by Vincent Tullo for The New York Times. I hadn’t considered the famously spare J.D. Salinger rainbow cover in a long time, but this post by writer Austin Adams came across my feed the other day: I had always figured Little, Brown carelessly

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. My personal internet this week was chock full of adaptation news, reviews, announcements, teases, reveals, and other digital

Happy Friday, book-lovers. Unwind with some Book Riot stuff. 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 was also around in the

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.

Here is what is on tap today on Book Riot: Love them or hate them, all of these polarizing science fiction books are excellent and worth a read. How better to weigh in on a conversation than reading and fully understanding what everyone is talking about? I don’t need to tell you that we’re living

August 21, 2024, 1:08pm Archaeologists estimate that humans invented writing around 3200 B.C.E. Archaeologists also estimate that soon after, around 3190 B.C.E., humans began wondering if it’s a bad idea to date a writer. “Should I ask out Ninimma? Even though she’s a cuneiform writer?” asked our Sumerian ancestors. And still today, the same questions

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

August 21, 2024, 1:26pm Print is dead, long live print. We’re either eulogizing the industry or trying to reboot it. Either way, many in the literary establishment still seem to be obsessed with pages, rustling softly between our fingers. Say what you will about the twentieth century, but it produced a lot of elegant design and

Fall book club picks, historical fiction for kids, the most interesting questions in books, and more today on Book Riot: There’s a natural breeze and I can smell people cooking soup. And listen, I am all for leaving this hell of a summer behind us. Turns out the book world is, too. As various fall

August 20, 2024, 9:24am Though the big houses keep a-mergin’, the publishing wheel keeps on turnin’. In this case, that wheel is a romance media company. Romancelandia, meet 831 stories. Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur are the minds behind the new company, whose title is “a nod to late-’90s pager code for “I love you.”

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

August 20, 2024, 10:56am I’m happy to report that the internet has been redeemed for another day. I recently came across this very impressive and carefully curated map of bookstores on www.iheartbookstores.com, a simple and very useful site: a searchable, scrollable, and sortable map and database of 6,001 non-chain bookstores. Pairs well with our literary