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Get Poetry Every Day with New Podcast From U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith
One of my literary blind spots has always been poetry. I like it well enough and have dabbled in reading it off and on since I stopped being forced to academically. In the last year or so, I’ve been...
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Read Harder: A Book by a Woman and/or AOC That Won a Literary Award in 2018
The 2019 Read Harder Challenge is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal. Get the full list of tasks here. Created by Book Riot, this smartly designed reading log consists of entry pages to record stats,...
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Read Harder: A Book by a Journalist or About Journalism
The 2019 Read Harder Challenge is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal. Get the full list of tasks here. Created by Book Riot, this smartly designed reading log consists of entry pages to record stats,...
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Book Fetish: Volume 337
This week’s Book Fetish is sponsored by Libby, the one-tap reading app from your library and OverDrive. Meet Libby. The award-winning reading app that makes sure you always have something to read. It’s...
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Book Fetish: Volume 338
This week’s Book Fetish is sponsored by Flatiron Books. Enchantée by Gita Trelease transports readers to the glittering and magical world of 1870s Paris. After her parents die, Camille must find a way...
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Book Fetish: Volume 339
This week’s Book Fetish is sponsored by The Lost Man by Jane Harper. Two brothers meet for the first time in months in the Australian outback; their third brother lies dead at their feet in this...
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Book Fetish: Volume 340
This week’s Book Fetish is sponsored by Libby, the one-tap reading app from your library and OverDrive. Meet Libby. The award-winning reading app that makes sure you always have something to read. It’s...
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Book Fetish: Volume 341
This week’s Book Fetish is sponsored by THE ME I MEANT TO BE and HMH Teen. Best friends Willa and Flor have every intention of sticking to their girl code—but some rules are meant to be broken in this...
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The Best Reading Chairs for Every Budget
There is nothing like freezing winter weather to drive me into one of my favorite cozy reading chairs tucked into the perfect reading nook for hours at a time, wrapped in a fuzzy blanket with a...
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Colson Whitehead Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Underground Railroad won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday, topping off an already impressive year for author Colson Whitehead, whose novel won the National Book Award and was an Oprah Book...
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The Best Bookstores in All 50 States + DC
Like every reader, we Book Rioters love a good bookstore. (I even planned my cross-country move last fall around the bookstores I wanted to visit.) And we LOVE a good bookstore list. Best bookstores...
View ArticleWhat’s On Your Readathon TBR Stack?
One of the best parts of a readathon is the anticipation. What are you going to snack on? Where will you be reading? How long can you convince your friends and family to leave you alone? But most...
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14 Books to Give My Dad for Father’s Day
It’s June, which in book world is officially “dads and grads” season. Most bookstores and publishers have a pretty narrow idea of what constitutes “appropriate gifts for dads” for Father’s Day when...
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100 Must-Read Books of U.S. Historical Fiction
This list of 100 must-read books of U.S. historical fiction is sponsored by The Widow Nash by Jamie Harrison: “Jamie Harrison’s compelling debut is a gothic mystery plunked down in the western...
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20 Essential Jewish-American Novels (and Story Collections) of the Past 20 Years
To read Jewish-American novels is to examine a multitude of other topics: religion, immigration, family, responsibility, love, culture, mysticism, tradition, and place. The influx of Jews into...
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Hillary Clinton’s WHAT HAPPENED Sells More Than 300,000 Copies in First Week
According to her publisher Simon and Schuster, Hillary Clinton’s What Happened, her memoir documenting her side of the 2016 election, has sold more than 300,000 copies in it’s first week of sales....
View ArticleSorting 101 ’90s TV Characters in Hogwarts Houses
Have you ever been in the middle of a Full House binge watch and said to yourself, “Self, I wonder what Hogwarts houses the Tanners would be sorted into?” No? Just me? Well, if you HAVE, lucky for...
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Kazuo Ishiguro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
British author Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish academy praised the author of eight novels, noting that he, “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered...
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American Novelist Philip Roth Dies at 85
The prolific and award-winning author Philip Roth has died at the age of 85. "Old age is not a battle, its a massacre." ~ Philip Roth, R.I.P. pic.twitter.com/apFcR42kgE — Paul Holdengraber...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling Announces Release Date for 4th Cormoran Strike Novel
Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling) announced on Twitter that the fourth installment of the Cormoran Strike detective series, Lethal White, will be released on September 18, 2018 and is available for...
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