The winners are as follows: Fiction Nonfiction Young Readers’ Literature Find more news and stories of interest from the book world in Breaking in Books. This year’s fiction judges were Deesha Philyaw, Luis Correa, Wendy Smith, and Laurie Muchnick. This year’s nonfiction judges were Hanif Abdurraqib, Lillian Dabney, Sarah Norris, and Eric Liebetrau. This year’s young readers’ literature judges were Jerry Craft, Junko Yokota, Alec B. Chunn, and Laura Simeon....
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More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known as the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer’s legendary account of this nine-year ordeal, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. In this stunning graphic novel adaptation—a thoroughly researched and artfully rendered masterwork—renowned illustrator Gareth Hinds captures all the grim glory of Homer’s epic....
Do As the Characters Do One way to make your menu fun is to connect it to the experiences of the characters in your read. Serving themed food creates another way for your book club to connect with the character plus pushes your culinary creativity! For example: Is your next book pick Jasmine Guillory’s The Wedding Date? Why not feast on snacks inspired by Alexa and Drew’s meet-cute in the elevator with some baked brie and crackers (with champagne, of course)....
If you love The X Files There are aliens among us—and enough sexual tension between the agents and scientists (and scientist-agents) chasing those aliens to keep things extra interesting. (PS: always trust the women most.) The Themis Files: Sleeping Giants, Waking Gods, and Only Human by Sylvain Neuval Super scientist Rose was once a girl who fell into a hole in the earth…and right into an alien robot’s hand. The series includes scientific tinkering (even at a genetic level), aliens among us, espionage, interplanetary travel, some nice love connections, and the best Chinese food in Washington, D....
For those of us with Premium, audiobooks on Spotify offer you the opportunity to listen to books without having to pay for another subscription service, saving you money and allowing you to access some great reads at the same time. For more information on how to find your way around downloading and searching for audiobooks on Spotify, check out our handy dandy guide! Having recently discovered this service myself, I was delighted to discover that it features not only public domain classics, but a thriving library of contemporary reads, too....
As a show of support for poets of color writing different shades of poetry, here are five poetry audiobooks you can listen to in one sitting: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes, Read by the Author This collection from the National Book Award–winning poet is simply lyrical, moving, and stunning. Hayes explores racism and violence in America, which are very timely and relevant themes in the midst of mass shootings and hate toward immigrants....
I hope that you enjoy all of these books as much as I did! Toni Morrison is truly one of a kind and it is impossible not to see the massive effect she has had on the scope of our modern literature. If you’re looking for even more recommendations, check out this other list of books that have similar themes to Beloved.
It’s a new year, and that means new perks. We’ve sweetened the current Short Story and Novel levels and introduced a brand new Epic level, and you can try any level out for free for two weeks! The highlight is our new group read, available to all Epic members — and there’s no cap on Epic, so the more the merrier. Each quarter we’ll read a book, voted on by Epic subscribers, that will fulfill at least one task of the 2020 Read Harder Challenge, and cap off our read-along with a live chat....
We all have a favorite trope. For me, it’s fake dating. These stories have the same general structure, but they’re changeable to pretty much any relationship you want to put together. Even if it’s a foregone conclusion that the two characters will end up together, a fake dating plot still holds a lot of tension. It’s less about when they admit their feelings and more about how they come out....
In the Night Realm, vampires, shifters, weirns, and other night things passing for human prowl the streets… but they still have to go to school! Ailis and Na’ya are pretty average students (NOT losers), but when a shadow starts looming and a classmate gets all weird, they are the first to notice. It gets personal, though, when Na’ya’s little brother D’esh disappears-It’s time to confront the secrets of the forbidden mansion in the Silent Woods!...
To help you and your beginning reader, I put together a list of 50 picture books, book series, and chapter books for readers who are figuring out consonant/vowel/consonant words, bossy r words, magic e words, sight words, and all of the other words that find themselves in books for early readers. These books for beginning readers are fun (and easy!) to read. How To Find Good Fit Books When helping a young reader pick out a book, look for “good fit books....
This list, though, is even more specific than that, because it’s specifically memoir, meaning that all of the terrible things that happen actually happened to the people telling the stories. For me, the experience of reading nonfiction horror books, especially written by the person whom the events affected, is cathartic. I’m the person who watches murder documentaries, listens to true crime podcasts, and reads books like these. Not everyone gets it....
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Book Riot is teaming up with Uncharted to give away one Kindle Paperwhite! A little more about Uncharted: Uncharted is a new Literary Magazine coming August 2021 with the goal to create a space where writers and readers can truly gather together to share and experience outstanding stories, specializing in Sci-Fi & Fantasy/ Horror & Thriller/ Crime & Mystery writing. Uncharted will be publishing new work every week from emerging and established authors, and running prestigious contests to make sure our authors get the chance to make real money and earn real recognition....
Buy the audiobook edition of Crossings by Alex Landragin now wherever audiobooks are sold. Alex Landragin’s Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut - a novel spanning 150 years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be experienced one of two ways: either straight through or according to an alternate chapter sequence....
Maybe, maybe not. Sometimes it seems like authors from other regions of the world get more recognition. For example, you might be able to name a handful of British authors without thinking about it too much. I’m not trying to downplay or doubt anyone’s achievements, but writers with ties to the Caribbean deserve to get their flowers too. This is just the beginning – an introduction, if you will – for readers that aren’t acquainted with these five Caribbean children’s book authors....
Tentacle by Rita Indiana Working hard as a cleaner and sex worker in a post-apocalyptic Dominican Republic, Acilde is eager to save up money to afford testosterone, as well as top and bottom surgery. However, when a wealthy employer suddenly dies, leaving behind a mythical sea anemone with mysterious powers, Acilde is transported back in time and tasked with saving the Caribbean from its bleak future. Meanwhile, an egotistical man experiences two timelines of reality at once—his own and that of the colonial era—and struggles to find safety in either....
via GIPHY End friendships… via GIPHY And inspired readers to create copious amounts of thirsty fan art (y’all know who you are)… via GIPHY 2019 brought readers new couples who withstand war, time travel, fame, and illness to be together. Here are six beautiful couples who entered the spotlight this year and are completely worthy of shipping. Hazel & James and Colette & Aubrey from Lovely War by Julie Berry Julie Berry’s most recent masterpiece blesses readers with not only one but two great romances (there is a bonus third couple as well, but they aren’t young adults so we’ll leave them for another post)....
These are poems that have often comforted me during hard times. They remind me that though the world is often scary and uncertain, it is also full of beauty, joy and connection. Reciting a poem while you wash your hands can turn a chore into a soothing, grounding ritual. If you’re looking for sillier hand-washing entertainment, comics creator Lucy Knisley wrote and illustrated an incredible hand washing song to the tune of Frere Jacques....
