Erica E.
@erica-eze.bsky.social
✍🏾 Associate Editor at BookRiot.com
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There's a fresh episode of Hey YA today. @erica-eze.bsky.social and I talk about some of the most exciting new young adult books hitting shelves in the month of August: bookriot.com/listen/new-y...
Anywhere There's a Court, There's Mess: New YA Books For August - BOOK RIOT
Kelly and Erica discuss the latest media they've been consuming and the YA books coming out in August that they're most excited about.
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August 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
There's a fresh episode of Hey YA today. @erica-eze.bsky.social and I talk about some of the most exciting new young adult books hitting shelves in the month of August: bookriot.com/listen/new-y...
Just got this. So excited to start it 🙂↕️
August 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Just got this. So excited to start it 🙂↕️
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Did you know that since 2024, the AALBC has kept a monthly list of the bestselling books by Black authors? April's list includes James, Happy Land, and Seven Days in June.
#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
#BlackSky
#PublishingWatch
#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
#BlackSky
#PublishingWatch
The Bestselling Books in the United States Written by Black Writers: Adult Fiction (Hardcover), April 2025
Discover America's bestselling books by Black and African American authors. Published monthly, the BLK Bestsellers List include 160 titles across eight categories including Fiction, Nonfiction, YA and...
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May 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Did you know that since 2024, the AALBC has kept a monthly list of the bestselling books by Black authors? April's list includes James, Happy Land, and Seven Days in June.
#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
#BlackSky
#PublishingWatch
#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
#BlackSky
#PublishingWatch
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This is the future of book recommendations when libraries are defunded and dismantled. Trained professionals are removed in exchange for this made up, inaccurate garbage.
Are you fighting yet?
Are you fighting yet?
I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not.
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
May 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This is the future of book recommendations when libraries are defunded and dismantled. Trained professionals are removed in exchange for this made up, inaccurate garbage.
Are you fighting yet?
Are you fighting yet?
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Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
Excited for this new series I spearheaded that looks at how resistance has run alongside literature and libraries, now and throughout American history.
#Booksky 💙📚
bookriot.com/introducing-...
#Booksky 💙📚
bookriot.com/introducing-...
Introducing: Reading and Resistance—And How Literature Has Always Been Tied to American Freedom
A new series to bolster your spirit and even show you ways you can join in resisting.
bookriot.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Excited for this new series I spearheaded that looks at how resistance has run alongside literature and libraries, now and throughout American history.
#Booksky 💙📚
bookriot.com/introducing-...
#Booksky 💙📚
bookriot.com/introducing-...
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House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.
House oversight committee demands answers on gutting of CDC public records office
House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.
www.npr.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.
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“I don’t think enough people recognize how the normalization of human suffering and disposability happen. When you stop caring about any group of people and their suffering…you also become more vulnerable to the violence they’re experiencing.”
organizingmythoughts.org/sarah-kendzi...
organizingmythoughts.org/sarah-kendzi...
Sarah Kendzior: "Don't Give Up On Other People"
"If you still care, then I think there's still potential for this situation to be turned around," says Sarah Kendzior.
organizingmythoughts.org
April 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“I don’t think enough people recognize how the normalization of human suffering and disposability happen. When you stop caring about any group of people and their suffering…you also become more vulnerable to the violence they’re experiencing.”
organizingmythoughts.org/sarah-kendzi...
organizingmythoughts.org/sarah-kendzi...
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BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for banning books and curricula about race and gender at schools on military bases around the world.
This is a violation of students’ First Amendment rights.
This is a violation of students’ First Amendment rights.
April 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for banning books and curricula about race and gender at schools on military bases around the world.
This is a violation of students’ First Amendment rights.
This is a violation of students’ First Amendment rights.
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Tomorrow night! @erikatwurth.bsky.social. Yours truly. At @bookpeople.bsky.social. If you’re anywhere near Austin, I hope you come hang out and talk spooky things with us. Register for free here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople...
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March 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Tomorrow night! @erikatwurth.bsky.social. Yours truly. At @bookpeople.bsky.social. If you’re anywhere near Austin, I hope you come hang out and talk spooky things with us. Register for free here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople...
www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople...
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Happening this Saturday in Altadena, California:
March 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Happening this Saturday in Altadena, California:
Now see, this is my kind of carrying on
all i’m saying is that dorothy zbornak and beyonce might be the same person: thread
March 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Now see, this is my kind of carrying on
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Tune into this week's episode of Hey YA, where @erica-eze.bsky.social and I talk about some of the most interesting new releases of March, this year's Summer Scares Selections, the FOREVER . . . adaptation, and more: bookriot.com/listen/ya-bo...
That Cover Goes B-A-N-A-N-A-S: YA Books Out in March to TBR - BOOK RIOT
Get your hands on some of the best new YA books hitting shelves this month.
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March 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Tune into this week's episode of Hey YA, where @erica-eze.bsky.social and I talk about some of the most interesting new releases of March, this year's Summer Scares Selections, the FOREVER . . . adaptation, and more: bookriot.com/listen/ya-bo...
“Don’t obey in advance, and don’t obey later” is a bar 🗣️ 🔥
Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this.
Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.
Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.
February 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Don’t obey in advance, and don’t obey later” is a bar 🗣️ 🔥
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Tune in to this week's episode of Hey YA, where @erica-eze.bsky.social and I highlight some of the best YA books hitting shelves this month.
bookriot.com/listen/febru...
bookriot.com/listen/febru...
Let’s Talk About Demons: February's Best YA Book Releases - BOOK RIOT
Kelly and Erica talk about the YA books out in February they're most excited about...and maybe a demon or two.
bookriot.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Tune in to this week's episode of Hey YA, where @erica-eze.bsky.social and I highlight some of the best YA books hitting shelves this month.
bookriot.com/listen/febru...
bookriot.com/listen/febru...
Surprised Beyoncé actually won album of the a year. It make sense—it’s her best, most ambitious album—but I’m surprised. It also seems like they were low-key shading the CMAs with that best country album award 😂
February 3, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Surprised Beyoncé actually won album of the a year. It make sense—it’s her best, most ambitious album—but I’m surprised. It also seems like they were low-key shading the CMAs with that best country album award 😂
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This is why it's so important to learn history.
It's EMPOWERING, not just instructive.
It's EMPOWERING, not just instructive.
To everyone who says Democrats have no power: Do they have less political power and fewer tools at their disposal than Black Americans in the Jim Crow south?
February 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This is why it's so important to learn history.
It's EMPOWERING, not just instructive.
It's EMPOWERING, not just instructive.
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Catch up on the best new YA books to hit shelves in January and get the info on joining @erica-eze.bsky.social and I for a Sweet Valley High book club next month: bookriot.com/listen/best-...
Revenge All the Way Down: The Best YA Books Out in January - BOOK RIOT
Kelly and Erica discuss a mega list of the best YA books of 2024, the romance bookstore boom of the last few years, and our current book club pick.
bookriot.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Catch up on the best new YA books to hit shelves in January and get the info on joining @erica-eze.bsky.social and I for a Sweet Valley High book club next month: bookriot.com/listen/best-...
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"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground." — Fredrick Douglass
December 26, 2024 at 2:42 PM
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground." — Fredrick Douglass
December 25, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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On this week's episode of Hey YA, @erica-eze.bsky.social and I talk about our favorite YA reads of the year, as well as trends we noticed throughout the year.
For me, it was reading a lot more historical fiction than usual & being okay with far LESS reading.
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For me, it was reading a lot more historical fiction than usual & being okay with far LESS reading.
bookriot.com/listen/favor...
I Like a Little Depression Now and Then: Our Favorite YA Books of 2024 - BOOK RIOT
Kelly and Erica discuss their year in YA reading, looking back at their favorite books and themes that emerged.
bookriot.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:21 PM
On this week's episode of Hey YA, @erica-eze.bsky.social and I talk about our favorite YA reads of the year, as well as trends we noticed throughout the year.
For me, it was reading a lot more historical fiction than usual & being okay with far LESS reading.
bookriot.com/listen/favor...
For me, it was reading a lot more historical fiction than usual & being okay with far LESS reading.
bookriot.com/listen/favor...
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Stand with the workers.
Here's also a reminder that most book stores don't pay a living wage and that distinction between minimum and living wage really matters.
bookriot.com/indie-bookst...
Here's also a reminder that most book stores don't pay a living wage and that distinction between minimum and living wage really matters.
bookriot.com/indie-bookst...
December 8, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Stand with the workers.
Here's also a reminder that most book stores don't pay a living wage and that distinction between minimum and living wage really matters.
bookriot.com/indie-bookst...
Here's also a reminder that most book stores don't pay a living wage and that distinction between minimum and living wage really matters.
bookriot.com/indie-bookst...
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400+ ✨ #BlackBooks ✨ Coming Out in 2025
December 8, 2024 at 11:40 PM
400+ ✨ #BlackBooks ✨ Coming Out in 2025
Jfc
The school
had to
remove
a section
from their
sex ed
about
consent.
Because consent isn't something that politicians care about in their own lives, they're not going to allow students to learn about it, either.
These politicians also ban abortion access, of course.
had to
remove
a section
from their
sex ed
about
consent.
Because consent isn't something that politicians care about in their own lives, they're not going to allow students to learn about it, either.
These politicians also ban abortion access, of course.
HB 1069 gave the FLDOE the responsibility to approve reproductive health curriculum before it can be taught at the local level.
Orange County had to remove a lesson on consent from grades 6-8 to gain state approval.
Here is some of the removed information.
Orange County had to remove a lesson on consent from grades 6-8 to gain state approval.
Here is some of the removed information.
December 6, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Jfc