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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Alex Luppens-Dale won the “Enthusiastic Reader Award” all four years of high school. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her favorite genres are memoir, witches,

We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad (S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books, September 23) Mona Awad’s Bunny came out in 2019, and we’re all still talking about it. In this sequel to the cult classic, former MFA student Samantha Heather Mackey has published a critically acclaimed novel, based on her experiences with a cultish clique of

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Liberty Hardy is an unrepentant velocireader, writer, bitey mad lady, and tattoo canvas. Turn-ons include books, books and books. Her favorite exclamation is “Holy cats!” Liberty reads more than should be legal, sleeps very little, frequently writes on

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor. She spends her free time reading, watching horror

The Beautiful, Ridiculous City by Kay Sohini Exploring food, change, grief, healing, and memory, this poignant debut follows Sohini’s journey from India to NYC, a place she had long-traveled to through books, TV, and films. In Calcutta, she, her boyfriend, and a friend shared an apartment with turquoise walls. After a hard breakup, the author

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Anne Mai Yee Jansen is a literature and ethnic studies professor and a lifelong story lover. She exists on a steady diet of books, hot chocolate, and dragon boating. After spending over a decade in the Midwest and

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Katie’s parents never told her “no” when she asked for a book, which was the start of most of her problems. She has an MLIS from the University of Illinois and works full time as a Circulation &

Elisa Shoenberger has been building a library since she was 13. She loves writing about all aspects of books from author interviews, antiquarian books, archives, and everything in between. She also writes regularly for Murder & Mayhem and Library Journal. She’s also written articles for Huffington Post, Boston Globe, WIRED, Slate, and many other publications.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kendra Winchester is a Contributing Editor for Book Riot where she writes about audiobooks and disability literature. She is also the Founder of Read Appalachia, which celebrates Appalachian literature and writing. Previously, Kendra co-founded and served as Executive

A library clerk in Crawford County, Missouri, was also fired for a book display this Pride month. Rachel Rodman put together a display of LGBTQ+ books, which is something she’d done for other cultural and heritage celebrations throughout her year in the Bourbon Branch library. A mere six days after the display went up–the display

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. A Star-Studded Twelfth Night Broadcast Fans of the Bard, rejoice! A Twelfth Night production starring Peter Dinklage, Lupita

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I did a summer reading list round-up a little while ago and that seemed to go over pretty well, and as I opened my email/RSS/social media this morning, I thought a round-up of the lists coming out about just July books might be a good way to kick off the month. Here we go. Supreme

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