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Like capri pants and velour tracksuits, it seems that Shakespeare’s tragic tale of teenage love comes back around every 30 years. Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey drew raves and included a brief nude scene that prompted “a lot of fuss” at the time and a lawsuit alleging child abuse decades…
I work at a bookshop, and my coworker and I were standing around the counter the other day, when she asked, “Kendra, what do you like to read in the fall?” I had to think about it for a second, but I quickly realized I ADORE horror for the season. I want to extend those…
For all the readers who don’t mind chocolate in their peanut butter, here’s a list of exciting sci-fi and fantasy books that dip into the mystery genre. Mystery novels are always a good time, but mystery novels with demons, monsters, sorceresses, and space ships? Now that’s an epic nerd-purr! (And if you enjoy sci-fi mysteries,…
When most folks think about professional development in a library capacity, they’re thinking about the conferences—the Annual Conference of the American Library Association (ALA), the ones put on by large organizations that are either affiliated with or subsets of the ALA, or even big regional conferences like the Texas Library Association. But conferences, while offering…
Dual release young adult books–that is, books that publish in both hardcover and paperback at the same time–have been growing in numbers over the last year. There are two new dual releases this week, and more of this will be coming down the pike, too. Having a choice in the format you purchase a book…
Libby has shared the top 10 most popular comic book checkouts across the more than 22,000 libraries they service, and 9/10 titles are historical fiction—more specifically, they are historical manga. Since National Comic Book Day is September 25th, this feels like a perfect time for fans of historical fiction to branch out to comics if…
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September 22, 2026 View Online | Join All Access | Listen Questions about Book Riot? We’re turning 15 next month, and you’re invited to the party. Ask us anything, reflect on the biggest literary controversies of the last decade-and-a-half, and celebrate the best of the bookish internet. Spread the word. Share this email with friends.…
The Booker Prize honors the best work of fiction written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland annually. It began in 1969 and has become an honor that can catapult a book and an author’s career. Five judges comprise the panel that determines the finalists for the prize. They include authors, publishers,…