Every now and again I get finished copies of books, which is nifty, especially now that hard copies come with colorful treatments on the edges, […]
Mexico: Anatomy of a Mass Murder | Claudio Lomnitz
In April 2011 Mexican soldiers discovered mass graves in San Fernando, a city of some 30,000 people in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas. One hundred […]
42 Book Lists to Overwhelm Your TBR
As part of hosting the Book Riot Podcast, co-writing Today in Books, while also keeping my own reading train running, I collect interesting book lists. […]
BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS | Kirkus Reviews
by Kristin Hannah ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 6, 2024 A dramatic, vividly detailed reconstruction of a little-known aspect of the Vietnam War. Likes 197 Our […]
Ann Leckie, Fairy Tales, & More
Hot for Teacher Hot for Teacher by Monique Fisher is $2.49! This is the first book in a contemporary romance series. It also features an age […]
‘An Ass-Backward Sherlock Holmes’ | J. W. McCormack
Television’s best jokes turn hierarchies upside-down. In some cases ghoulish beauty standards are treated as ordinary, like when Morticia Addams clips the heads off roses […]
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for August 25, 2024
Book Deals This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Today’s Featured Book Deals In Case […]
HISTORY IN FLAMES | Kirkus Reviews
THE OSAGE MURDERS AND THE BIRTH OF THE FBI by David Grann ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 18, 2017 Dogged original research and superb narrative skills […]
Dogs, Baseball, & More | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Strange Practice Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw is $2.99! Readers love the heroine, who is described a “fast-talking doctor to the undead.” The next book in […]
Pitiless, Restless Brecht | Victoria Baena
In 1924, when he was in his mid-twenties, Bertolt Brecht and his frequent collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann started work on a play set in Chicago. Neither […]
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for August 21, 2024
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MORBIDLY YOURS | Kirkus Reviews
by Colleen Hoover ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 2, 2016 Packed with riveting drama and painful truths, this book powerfully illustrates the devastation of abuse—and the […]
Just Playing House by Farah Heron
After I finished Just Playing House, I immediately ran around telling everyone I knew to read it. I’m totally obsessed with this second chance + […]
Lights, Camera, Royals!
For Cavaliers and royalists in seventeenth-century England, the Eikon Basilike ranked with the Bible as a sacred text. Published almost as soon as King Charles […]
Book Riot’s YA Deals of the Day for August 17, 2024
Young Adult Deals Deals Aug 17, 2024 This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Today’s […]
BROKEN MIRROR | Kirkus Reviews
by Max Brooks ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 16, 2020 A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton […]
Blood of a Gladiator by Ashley Gardner
I mentioned in the recent Whatcha Reading post that I think it was flchen1 (Hi! Thank you!!) who posted about Blood of a Gladiator in […]
The Importance of Being Tim Walz | Ian Frazier
Governor Tim Walz, as everybody knows by now, comes from Minnesota by way of Nebraska. He grew up near the eastern Nebraska town of West […]