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At this point in his career, Christopher Golden’s ability to spin an entertaining horror yarn is without question, but the bestselling titan (Snowblind, Dead Ringers) is still finding ways to surprise readers. His latest novel, Carry Me to My Grave, is a prime example, a book with a solid genre hook that takes flight via

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After admiring the late Pat Conroy’s novels and memoirs for decades—and relating to the “father issues so boldly on display”—Matthew Quick began telling himself, “Your life has become a Pat Conroy book.” Quick and his wife had moved to Lady’s Island, South Carolina, to help care for his aging parents. Now, the author of The

Since 2006, the Center for Fiction has been highlighting the best debut novels of the year through its First Novel Prize. This year’s 180 eligible titles were published in the US between January 1st and December 31st, and were narrowed down to 19 books by more than 500 writers, librarians, booksellers, and others. The shortlist

You only need to glance at Textiles x Art: How Textiles Are Shaping Contemporary Art to see that it’s special. The cover is designed to look like a woven textile, and the motif continues across the book’s printed edges. Authors Ramona Barry and Beck Jobson have compellingly assembled 44 contemporary textile artists whose work expands

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In the 1970s, an intensive program to eradicate drug addiction made waves. Synanon was at first seen as a positive force, endorsed by celebrities and politicians. Soon, however, darker truths were revealed about the group’s “healing” methodologies and the trauma it forced on innocent adults and children. Rowan Beaird’s sophomore novel, Tenderness, chronicles the 1976

Rebecca is channeling a bard, Jeff’s referencing multiple epics, Vanessa’s making noises about the score. The nerd factor is turned all the way up today, because we’ve all officially seen The Odyssey. We always do the homework here at Book Riot, and we won’t even try to pretend that we don’t love it when the

As they approach the ends of their careers, writers, like criminals, often dream of one last big strike: the cherry on top of the sundae, the defining moment that will stand as the pinnacle of their craft. While we’re happy to report that Colson Whitehead has, by any reasonable measure, decades of writing ahead, his

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Weirdness is currency in interior design, an area often crowded with boring disguised as tasteful. What sets This Must Be the Place: Homes With Atmosphere apart from the glut of interior design books is its weirdness. California-based designer Chloe Redmond Warner presents 11 homes and two showcase rooms. Each project begins with Warner and her

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Don’t Go There: A Tour of the World’s Most Sinister Spots starts with a brilliant premise: It’s a travel book built entirely around places you should avoid. But like anyone schooled in the art of reverse psychology knows, the fastest way to get someone interested in something is to tell them to stay away from

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A mediocre matrimonial scammer down to his last peso meets his match when he tries to con a hardened spinster in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Intrigue. In 1943 Mexico City, Ulises Linares is a floundering 29-year-old con man with silver just beginning to line his locks. Handsome and slick, but far less than savvy, he inherited

Rebecca Yarros has announced the fourth addition to the mega-bestselling Empyrean series on Instagram. The book is titled Threshing Day and will be available on September 29th this year. Threshing Day is a little different from the other books in the series, though. It is not a sequel to the third book, Onyx Storm. Instead,

During swelling fascist tides, queer love subverts hegemonic power, creating new hierarchies of value altogether. Aruni Kashyap’s How to Date a Fanatic follows Rohit as he seeks love while Hindu nationalism is on the rise in Narendra Modi’s India. While this novel faces hatred and oppression head on, its most moving moments come in the

The Odyssey opens in theaters tomorrow, and the reviews of Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation are almost as rosy as the fingers of Homer’s beloved dawn. Here’s a look at the reviews: A genuinely grand, gutsy vision, “The Odyssey” thrills generously for the bulk of its near three-hour running time: Every few minutes, it seems, it

★ Just for the Season In Just for the Season, Rachel Griffiths offers up a read to treasure. Forced to marry to avoid social ruin, Lady Charlotte Aveton invites a succession of suitors to her family’s country home. One snag in her plan to find the best husband? Her brother’s friend, the Duke of Warrick,

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Ice cream conjures up images of summer: cooling frozen pops from the ice cream truck, double scoop cones on the boardwalk or soft serve custard at a carnival. But ice cream and other frozen indulgences are delicious year-round and can be made in your own kitchen. In The Art of Frozen Desserts: Ice Cream, Sorbets,

What goes into creating a Literary Activism story? A lot of time, energy, and effort. Not every story about book censorship or library challenges makes the weekly link roundup cut, as each story is vetted for as much context and insight as possible. For news stories that are reported, time and energy goes into doing

Femme Feral Ellie is counting the days to her boss’s retirement, when he’ll finally hand over the reins of the meditation app company they built from the ground up. After all, she’s running the place already. And she deserves something positive after taking care of her older father-in-law and teenage daughter with little help from

A couple weeks ago, I shared a list of 650+ new queer books out in the first half of 2026. Now, I’m back with a spreadsheet of 250+ queer books coming out in the second half of the year. You might notice that those are pretty different numbers, and that’s because I usually learn about

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Middle school can often feel like a fiery disaster, and that’s certainly the case for three students in Tae Keller’s marvelous new novel, When Tomorrow Burns. As with her Newbery Medal-winning When You Trap a Tiger, there’s a suggestion of magic. Years ago, the friends found an old book that seems to contain prophecies. Now,

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Move over, Tony Soprano. Ron Currie’s unforgettable Babs Dionne is back. While his acclaimed The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne chronicled eight days in 2016, We Will See You Bleed—the second book of a projected trilogy—takes place in 1984, describing the pivotal succession of events that led the gritty Franco American Babs to become

Having written this column since mid-2021, I sometimes forget what I’ve covered. In some ways, I haven’t written anything new in the world of book censorship because the tactics, goals, and outcomes have not changed much at all over the course of this significant era of censorship, even if the trends in how those means are achieved

Shannon Sanders’ first novel, The Great Wherever, is an ingenious meditation on inheritances material, spiritual and emotional, and a worthy successor to her much-lauded short story collection, Company. Aubrey Lamb has long felt like the underdog in her own story, the problematic black sheep of a successful Black family. A year after her father’s death,