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Add even more thrillers to your TBR with these edge-of-your-seat thriller novels from 2020, 9 addictive new thrillers, and the best psychological thrillers of 2019. This horror novel leaves you with more questions than answers. Experience true psychological horror alongside Noemí as her experiences become increasingly removed from reality and the savagery of High Place is revealed. It’s a modern classic in the making. This book is existential dread incarnate....

“Given New Year’s resolutions to declutter and spring cleaning come March, you may soon find yourself with boxes of books that no longer have a place on your shelf. So what are the best ways to ensure they don’t end up decaying in a landfill?” I’m assuming the majority of thrown away books are damaged or outdated, but here are some ways to recycle them in case you were wondering....

As a species, little literary magazines have persisted, blossomed, and flourished. If most of the publishing landscape is big, profit-oriented, and difficult to maneuver, then the little-lit-mag landscape is small, bad with money, and welcoming. Finding a traditional publisher can be soul-killingly difficult. But finding a little mag to love your work? It’s doable. The sheer number of living lit mags also demonstrate a clear hunger to belong to the literary discourse....

Go ahead; treat yourself! You know you want to. Kid’s Book Subscription Boxes From newborn to tween, these playful and versatile subscription boxes are the perfect way to foster a love of reading among the kiddos in your life. Little Fun Club What you get: 2–3 handpicked books each month perfect for children ages 0–12 Price: $19.95–24.95 Available: Located in U.S., but available internationally A post shared by Little Fun Club (@littlefunclub) on May 25, 2018 at 10:32am PDT...

Graphic Novels for 6th Graders Realistic Books for 6th Graders 12. A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée “Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she’d also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.) But when they’re least expecting it, catastrophe strikes....

Eat Joy: Stories and Comfort Food From 31 Celebrated Writers edited by Natalie Eve Garrett This illustrated collection of essays and recipes from celebrated writers is sure to tap into our taste buds. Whether it’s the food that got them through important life events, the way we remember friends and family we’ve lost with dishes of food, or the fumbles and foibles of learning our way through cooking, these essays will be relatable, gorgeous, and probably leave me craving all the foods....

Check out our children’s collection for great recs for every every age and mood! Both Sera Learns To Fly and Clouds And Waves are printed by Katha Organisation. Check out their efforts to spread literacy in India with other gorgeous and educational picture books. Hazel Mitchell created the illustrations with watercolor and graphite and then painted them digitally. It leads to beautiful vibrant hues with a somber blue-grey tone. The art is fitting for this sweet story about achieving your goals despite criticism....

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim After her mother’s death, Natalie returns to her childhood home in Chinatown to find she has inherited her grandmother’s old restaurant. Encouraged, Natalie decides to reopen the restaurant with her grandmother’s own secret recipes. On the advice of a fortune teller, Natalie must help three members of her old-new community to insure the restaurant’s success. Through cooking and hard work, Natalie reconnects with her mother and grandmother and their legacies....

Whichever you prefer, these new non-fiction titles are guaranteed to make this year’s Women’s History Month all the more enlightening. L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, THE CELEBRATED “fEMALE Byron” BY Lucasta Miller What better way to kick off Women’s History Month than with this biography recounting the story of poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon? Landon, often hailed as the “female Byron,” earned both loyal fans and fierce critics with her short stories and sentimental poems....

With all of these great selections, no matter what you choose, you’re sure to find a great listen! For more recommendations, check out “7 Fictions Audiobooks for Disability Pride Month”. And you can find more information about Disability Pride Month at “A Book Lover’s Guide to Disability Pride Month”.

Shuri: The Search for Black Panther by Nnedi Okorafor and Leonardo Romero With T’Challa missing, Princess Shuri is being looked to not only to save her brother, but also to take up the mantle of Black Panther—something she has no interest in doing. Not again. She’d rather be working in her lab to bring her brother home. She’ll have to find some way to keep Wakanda safe in the meantime, though....

An adaptation of Shaftesbury’s award-winning, groundbreaking queer vampire web series of the same name, Carmilla mixes the camp of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the snark of Veronica Mars, and the mysterious atmosphere of Welcome to Nightvale. Vampires aren’t over and done with. They’re just getting started, lovely readers. I’m tired of people saying vampires in literature are overrated and shouldn’t be done more. We have had many in this decade, but as you might already know, most of them have white vampires from white European countries by white authors....

I know the shore to healing can seem a long swim away, but I hope you find some peace in these poems on your journey. Excerpt: A few years ago I read a friend’s father’s obituary on Facebook. His father had requested in lieu of flowers, please take a friend or loved one out for lunch. Although I love flowers very much, I won’t see them when I’m gone. So in lieu of flowers: Buy a book of poetry written by someone still alive, sit outside with a cup of tea, a glass of wine, and read it out loud, by yourself or to someone, or silently....

And just like bad sex in real life, we’re left wanting. But there are some really great, saucy, delicious books out there too, with everything we desire—great world-building, characters to fall in love with, solid plot, and great steamy scenes on top of that. We here at Book Riot are looking for the full package here, if you catch my drift, and we want it done well. So we’ve compiled a list of the books that get us hot—after all, it is still cuffing season....

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina/Labyrinth Lost If you enjoy the balance of dark magic and teen drama in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, you’ll love Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova. Much like Sabrina, teenage bruja Alex has a complicated relationship with her family legacy of magic. When she tries to rid herself of her powers at her Deathday celebration, her spell backfires and her whole family disappears. She must team up with Nova, a brujo she doesn’t trust, to save her family and redeem herself....

Eugenics is most commonly associated with Nazi Germany, where the people deemed “pure Aryan” by the white supremacist government were rewarded for having large families, and Jewish people, Roma people, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people, and disabled people, among others, were forcibly sterilised as well as being murdered as part of the Holocaust. However, eugenicist thinking was also prevalent in the USA. Famous figures such as John Harvey Kellogg were outspoken eugenicists, and in 1927, it was ruled that the forced sterilisation of people with learning disabilities was constitutional....

An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy, Neon Yang’s debut novel The Genesis of Misery is full of high-tech space battles and political machinations, starring a queer and diverse array of pilots, princesses, and prophetic heirs. On sale from Tor Books on September 27, 2022! Nonbinary characters are few and far between, and maybe it’s because of the complexity of this gender identity. In my queer journey, I’ve learned that being nonbinary means different things to every nonbinary person....

Read on for my reading recommendations for You’ve Got Mail characters! (And a little bit of fanfiction about what they’re up to 22 years after the events of the movie.) Reading Recommendations for You’ve Got Mail Characters Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) Patricia Eden (Parker Posey) Frank Navasky (Greg Kinnear) Kevin (Dave Chappelle) George (Steve Zahn) Christina (Heather Burns) Birdie (Jean Stapleton) And that’s it! Once you’ve read your way through all these reading recommendations for You’ve Got Mail characters, you might try reading more enemies-to-lovers stories....

The world remembers Elie Wiesel—Nobel laureate, activist, and author of more than forty books—as a great humanist. He passed away in July of 2016. Now, in Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom, we see him as never before—not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher. Written by Wiesel’s devoted protégé and friend, Ariel Burger, Witness takes us inside the classroom, where listening and storytelling keep memory alive....