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haileypiperfights.bsky.social
Grateful for the mention of my recent queer cosmic horror novel A GAME IN YELLOW in BookRiot article "All the Queer Horror Books I Read During a 24 Hour Readathon" 💛

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All the Queer Horror Books I Read During a 24 Hour Readathon
I spent 24 hours reading queer horror books. Here's what I read and what I thought of them.
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October 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
authorsabb.bsky.social
Research is a skill! Here is a great guide from Bookriot on how to become well informed about your local elections. Maybe the way you help protect the right to read is by taking these skills & making a voting guide or candidate scorecards to distribute to your neighbors.
Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025
Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
andreasomberg.bsky.social
Happy pub date @franwilde.bsky.social! A Bookbub and BookRiot Must Read, A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES -- Robin Hood meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist -- has hit shelves! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781353...
A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde: 9781645661948 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Robin Hood meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist wrapped in a futuristic fantasy where thieves are entertainment for the...
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September 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
janholmquist.bsky.social
Lego Librarian Reinterpreted as Hipster Librarian, Warrior Librarian etc http://bookriot.com/2013/08/06/lego-librarian-reinterpreted-as-hipster-librarian-warrior-librarian-and-more/#.UgEgLW_56PI.twitter via @bananasuit @mrlibrarydude @BookRiot
Lego Librarian Reinterpreted as Hipster Librarian, Warrio...
Lego has introduced a Lego Librarian in the 10th installm...
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December 3, 2024 at 6:28 AM
elephant-with-pen.bsky.social
Nikki DeMarco wrote an article on BookRiot about the challenges neurodivergent individuals face in maintaining focus to finish books. While I am not sure that the idea of a "real reader" is as prevalent as suggested, the contrast is still a very interesting observation.
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Reading While Neurodivergent: A Librarian’s Guide to Loving Books on Your Own Terms
The model we call “good reading” is neurotypical reading. It assumes a brain that can sustain focus in long, quiet stretches.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
winningwriters.com
“I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against A Sharp White Background: An Elegy” by Morgan Parker | https://apogeejournal.org/2014/08/27/i-feel-most-colored-when-i-am-thrown-against-a-sharp-white-background-an-elegy/ @morganapple via @ApogeeJournal HT @BookRiot
February 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
velf.bsky.social
Bookriot #reading trend predictions for 2025 📖📚
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Renewed interest in classics you say...?? 👀👀
Book Trend Predictions for 2025
From the fate of diversity efforts in publishing to the prevalence of sprayed edges, Susie Dumond and others make 2025 predictions
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January 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
winningwriters.com
How Much Time Do Americans Spend Reading Per Day?
https://bookriot.com/how-much-time-do-americans-spend-reading-per-day/ via @BookRiot HT @lithub
How Much Time Do Americans Spend Reading Per Day?
Americans over the age of 75 read the most per day, but t...
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February 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
eedapod.bsky.social
WE'RE NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING! Thank you so much for this amazing first written review, Marathonreader! Book people are definitely the best people 🥰

Give us a listen! Eedapod.com
Screenshot of a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts dated December 27, 2023 from MarathonReader. The text says, "As a 70 year old queer woman, who has followed Bookriot for years, THIS podcast is truthful, delightful, filled with wonderment, and awe. (Yes, Nicole, you are doing great!) Greetings from Indiana. Happy 2024"
February 14, 2024 at 12:42 AM
cybilsawards.bsky.social
A fun fact if ever we heard one!
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The Surprising History of Writing as an Olympic Sport
Yes, really. For a brief period in the early 20th century, the Olympics included a writing competition.
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July 30, 2024 at 10:00 PM
jelica.bsky.social
When did Bookriot paywall their site? Also, why did it ruin my day?
July 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
bluesky.awakari.com
The New York Times's Best Books of the Year So Far https:// bookriot.com/new-york-times-be st-books-2025-so-far/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Book News @ book-news-BookRiot

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May 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
michaeldiaz101.bsky.social
Books should be affordable to everyone...

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#Books #Education #BookRiot #OurGeekThisWeek
The Daily: We’re in a Book Affordability Crisis - Our Geek This Week
We’re in a Book Affordability CrisisBooks should be affordable to everyone, but factors like the increasing price of paper and rising publishing
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November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
mizzelle.bsky.social
Interesting Harlequin going with Scribd and not say Oyster.... http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/64211-harlequin-offers-15-000-titles-exclusively-via-scribd-e-book-subscription.html @BookRiot
Harlequin Signs Exclusive Deal with Scribd
Harlequin has reached a deal with Scribd to make 15,000 H...
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December 5, 2024 at 7:59 PM
librosybitios.bsky.social
Why Print Is Here To Stay (A Not Anti- #eBook Op/Ed) , by Greg Zimmerman /BookRiot >@jafurtado http://ebookne.ws/yA3Ieb #papel
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December 6, 2024 at 4:12 AM
emilylhauser.bsky.social
"8 books about Muslim life for a nation that knows little about Islam" h/t @BookRiot https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/8-books-about-muslim-life-for-a-nation-that-knows-little-about-islam/2015/12/12/05fa8312-a0e7-11e5-a3c5-c77f2cc5a43c_story.html
November 27, 2024 at 4:07 AM
artdog.bsky.social
Were they right about the 2024 fiction market? In December 2023 @bookriot made some predictions. Now that 2024 is done, what do you think? Were they right? #BookSky📚💙
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January 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
lambdaliterary.org
Like #webcomics? Here are 12 to check out! via @BookRiot http://bit.ly/2HcMx25
12 Queer Webcomics You Can Read Free Right Now
A selection of twelve queer webcomics you can read free, ...
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December 1, 2024 at 2:01 PM
grammargirl.bsky.social
I almost never do this, but if you're not following @BookRiot, check them out. They consistently tweet cool, bookish stuff.
January 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
anitrafree.bsky.social
#booksky #readingchallenge #readharder #bookriot

I'm also doing Book Riot's Read Harder challenge again. A book I wanted to read last year & didn't get to was Karma, memoir by Boy George, so I'm listening to it on audio now. Prompt "pick a prompt from 2015" 2015 prompt "by or about someone LGBTQ"
January 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
winningwriters.com
Video: "I Like Big Books" - Eye-popping performance by Dowell Middle School | http://youtu.be/tuZSfvHHMr4 HT @BookRiot
February 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
bluehousebooks.bsky.social
Continuing our #NewReleaseTuesday with a bit of 🚗🌎💒🪓...

#booksky #indie #indiebookstore #kenosha
An image of a hand holding the book, "Run for the Hills" by Kevin Wilson in front of a bookshelf. --- https://www.blue-house-books.com/item/UhelvOrckPn_H6iS8U4rcQ NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, People, LitHub, and BookRiot An unexpected road trip across America brings a family together, in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of "Nothing to See Here". ... Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While it’s a bit lonely, she sometimes admits, and a less exciting life than what she imagined for herself, it’s mostly okay. Mostly. Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she’s his half sister. Reuben—left behind by their dad thirty years ago—has hired a detective to track down their father and a string of other half siblings. And he wants Mad to leave her home and join him for the craziest kind of road trip imaginable to find them all. As Mad and Rube—and eventually the others—share stories of their father, who behaved so differently in each life he created, they begin to question what he was looking for with every new incarnation. Who are they to one another? What kind of man will they find? And how will these new relationships change Mad’s previously solitary life on the farm? Infused with deadpan wit, zany hijinks, and enormous heart, "Run for the Hills" is a sibling story like no other—a novel about a family forged under the most unlikely circumstances and united by hope in an unknown future. An image of a hand holding the book, "The Emperor of Gladness" by Ocean Vuong in front of a bookshelf. --- https://www.blue-house-books.com/item/p5lAnqxqGBSedruGhSyNTg “'The Emperor of Gladness' is a poetic, dramatic and vivid story. Epic in its sweep, the novel also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality. Hai and Grazina are taken from the margins of American life by Ocean Vuong and, by dint of great sympathy and imaginative genius, placed at the very center of our world.” —Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island and Brooklyn “A masterwork.” —Bryan Washington, author of Palaver and Family Meal Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive ... One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to transform Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community on the brink. Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, "The Emperor of Gladness" shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Ocean Vuong’s writing—formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness—are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance. An image of a hand holding the book, "No One was Supposed to Die at this Wedding" in front of a bookshelf. --- https://www.blue-house-books.com/item/MWp_c1qAP1xykvgIOQ8fFg The second in a witty, USA Today bestselling series following author Eleanor Dash as she goes from wedding guest to murder mystery investigator at her best friend’s wedding on Catalina Island. ... Attending your best friend’s wedding should be a piece of (wedding) cake, but not for Eleanor Dash, bestselling author of the Vacation Mysteries series. Because murder seems to follow her every time she goes on vacation and is definitely her uninvited plus-one to the special occasion. Emma Wood, Eleanor’s best friend since childhood, is starring in the movie adaptation of When in Rome, Eleanor’s first novel. Emma is also marrying Fred Winters, a major movie star and Emma’s co-star, who just happens to be playing Connor Smith, Eleanor’s ex and leading man of the series. Filming wraps and they invite the whole cast and crew to their wedding at nearby Catalina Island. There may be a storm headed their way—because of course there is—but nothing will stop their nuptials . . . that is until Emma receives a note that says “Someone is going to die at the wedding.” Eleanor is a professional at this point, and she’ll do everything she can to uncover the murderer so true love can prevail . . . before it’s too late for her and the rest of the storm-trapped wedding party. An image of a hand holding the book, "Whack Job- A History of Axe Murder" by Rachel McCarthy James in front of a bookshelf. --- https://www.blue-house-books.com/item/pAG4rDFNcowJjPR9mHBOUQ A brilliant and bloody examination of the axe's foundational role in human history, from prehistoric violence, to war and executions, to newspaper headlines and popular culture. ... For as long as the axe has been in our hands, we have used it to kill. Much like the wheel, the boat, and the telephone, the axe is a transformative piece of technology—one that has been with us since prehistory. And just as early humans used the axe to chop down trees, hunt for food, and whittle tools, they also used it to murder. Over time, this particular use has endured: as the axe evolved over centuries to fit the needs of new agricultural, architectural, and social development, so have our lethal uses for it. "Whack Job" is the story of the axe, first as a convenient danger and then an anachronism, as told through the murders it has been employed in throughout history: from the first axe murder nearly half a million years ago, to the brutal harnessing of the axe in warfare, to its use in King Henry VIII's favorite method of execution, to Lizzie Borden and the birth of modern pop culture. Whack Job sheds brilliant light on this familiar implement, this most human of weapons. This is a critical examination of violence, an exploration of how technology shapes human conflict, the cruel and sacred rituals of execution and battle, and the ways humanity fits even the most savage impulses into narratives of the past and present.
May 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
melindabeatty.com
Another great podcast from @BookRiot!
December 2, 2024 at 7:40 PM
cvbell.bsky.social
An oasis of certainty in an uncertain world, cozy mysteries make excellent comfort food.
—Mood-Boosting Cozy Mysteries Are Increasingly Diverse
There are a wealth of great options. This is the tip of the iceberg: <a href="http://bit.ly/3s21qg9" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://bit.ly/3s21qg9 via @BookRiot
Diverse Cozy Mysteries for a Mystery Mood Boost | Book Riot
With new settings and subtext, cozy mysteries are increas...
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November 17, 2024 at 3:17 PM
mizzelle.bsky.social
Listening to @BookRiot podcast on Oyster app, one con for me would be having to be online to read, since it's unreliable on Metro.
December 7, 2024 at 9:30 AM