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Set in contemporary Mumbai, Devika Rege’s Quarterlife chronicles the lives of three young protagonists during a time of political change. Financial consultant Naren Agashe returns home to Mumbai from the United States with his friend Amanda, who is keen on doing social work in the city’s slums. In need of direction, Rohit, Naren’s brother, joins

Goodreads has just released its list of the Most Read Books of the Reading Challenge (So Far), so let’s take a look at the top five titles of the first half of the year. (Though it’s really only been five months.) In addition to the overall most read books, they also have broken it down

Ruth Ozeki is known and acclaimed for her long, substantial novels, including The Book of Form and Emptiness, A Tale for the Time Being and My Year of Meats. But she’s also a short story writer, and The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions collects 11 of her stories published over the past two decades. The

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the biggest headlines from last week. Marjane Satrapi, Author of PERSEPOLIS, Has Died at 56 Iranian French author Marjane Satrapi has passed away at 56. The cause and location of her death have

Alternatives to monogamy are becoming much more visible, leading more people to consider the idea of having multiple partners. But as any modern dater knows, relationships of any kind are rarely simple. Haili Blassingame’s debut novel, They All Fall in Love at the End, shows us a main character who upends her life for the

Today’s round-up of literary headlines includes the fallout of The Odyssey ticket sales, the newest comics publisher to unionize, classic picture books being translated into Indigenous languages, and more. Ticket Prices for The Odyssey Soar to $1,000 on eBay Yesterday afternoon, ticket sales began for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey—and they quickly became chaotic. Wait times

In This Story Might Save Your Life, best friends Joy and Benny run a podcast together—until Joy disappears. Julia Whelan and Sean Patrick Hopkins share their experiences crafting this unique, dual-narrator audiobook production, featuring duet-narrated podcast segments in addition to alternating chapters in which Whelan reads for Joy and Hopkins reads for Benny.   What

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Marjane Satrapi, Author of PERSEPOLIS, Has Died at 56 Iranian French author Marjane Satrapi has passed away at 56. The cause and location of her death have not been shared, but one thing is certain:

The great Ann Patchett’s 10th novel, Whistler, will surprise you not just once but several times—but Patchett’s surprises are as sad as they are pleasurable. Most of Whistler’s characters, after all, are at an age when the wistful backward glance is a thing. One of the younger characters, and the sometime narrator of the book,

In today’s roundup of book news, we have Barnes & Noble’s picks for the best books of the year so far, audio erotica narrated by your celebrity crush, new queer books out this Pride Month, and more. Barnes & Noble’s Picks for the Best Books of 2026 So Far The “Best Books of the Year

★ The Open Era  Edward Schmit debuts with The Open Era, an appealing exploration of love, rivalry and the rigors of professional sport, centered on the US Open Tennis Championship. At 20, Austin Hardy qualifies for his first Grand Slam tournament. Out since high school, the press focuses on his being gay more than his

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Amazon’s Best Books of the Last 10 Years Amazon decided to have a little throwback moment with its latest round-up, which looks at the books they’ve chosen as the best book of each year for

Justine van der Leun opens her introduction with the story of Nikki Addimando, a woman convicted of murdering her boyfriend, who’d been sexually and physically abusing her for years. After her sentencing, she told the court, “I was afraid to stay, afraid to leave, afraid that nobody would believe me, afraid of losing everything. This

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The New York Times’ Best Books of June Last week, we took a look at the books The New York Times highlighted as the best of the summer. Now, with the start of the month,

If you’re looking for a work of fiction that’s charming from start to finish, Villa Coco is the book for you. It’s seductively entertaining from the get-go, with a luscious opening line: “The little Tuscan train station, brown shutters against yellow paint, seemed so fanciful you might unwrap it and find it was chocolate.” Indeed,

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories we covered ourselves on Book Riot this week. Every month, the American Booksellers Association put together a list of the top 25 new book releases of the upcoming month as their

So often we focus on the big gestures in life, searching for the most momentous minutes. But Spendin’ Time is all about the simple moments. It is rare that a book comes around with such an unassuming and quiet message that is all joy and no strife. Author Gary R. Gray, Jr. honors his picture

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the biggest headlines from last week. The New Yorker‘s Best Books of 2026 So Far The publication we keep in stacks around our homes to let everyone know how smart we are has

In Robin Stevenson’s sensitive, engrossing novel The Book of Jupiter, readers see into the life of a child deeply imbedded in the control and perils of a cult community. The stars have never been so limitless, yet also limited, for 13-year-old Ara, who has grown up cloistered in a small rural homestead known as Jupiter

Explore even more 2026 Best Books So Far lists and add a bunch of books to your summer reads stacks with novels chosen by the NYT and a selection of books from Oprah Daily. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The

Not every crime is solved by a grade A detective or a hotshot sleuth, and in this case, an eclectic and rompy friend group bestows upon themselves the duty to solve the messiest of offences. Nicole is a Black lesbian junior lawyer with big dreams and near-zero social life; Brandon is a gay Jewish hotelier

Explore The New Yorker‘s Best Books of 2026 so far, grow your nonfiction stacks with the NYT‘s summer picks, and find out why public libraries are addressing e-book pricing. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The New Yorker‘s Best Books of

Steven Pfau’s expansive memoir, Say Nephew: On Boyhood, Unclehood, and Queer Mentorship, tells layered stories from his life and pays homage to his singular uncle Bruce, while also offering something more wide-ranging and complex: a theoretical meditation on the mentorship of uncles in the gay community.  Pfau’s prose is characterized by acute self-awareness and a

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A fairy tale that is charmingly told and delightfully illustrated, The Sweetest of Lemons is truly the sweetest of books. While traveling by car to visit his grandfather’s farm outside of Isfahan, Iran, a boy listens to a storyteller share the fantastic tale of a young man’s journey to take back “a lemon so perfectly

In today’s book news, John Grisham rails against AI slop audiobooks, painted book covers make a comeback, lawsuits reveal the messiness of copyright, and more. John Grisham Would Prefer if You Didn’t Listen to AI Slop Versions of his Audiobooks If you want to listen to John Grisham’s audiobooks, you have a few options. You

In 2020 and 2021, news articles speculated that the few dozen remaining lesbian bars in the U.S. might soon be gone. This concerned Rachel Karp, who had made memories in several of these bars and recognized them as repositories of queer knowledge and records of queer lives. As she puts it, “For centuries, queerness was

My DNA journey began long before I decided to invest in more intensive genealogical research, and I told myself it was imperative to writing fiction. I celebrated the championing of OwnVoices when it became a subject of much discussion in September 2015; I subscribed to Ancestry.com in October 2015. For the first time, the gloomy

Walter Mosley appears on our video call in a room bathed in sunshine. Small rectangular abstract prints on the wall behind him glow, and glass and plastic bottles on shelving near the window shimmer. When I ask where he’s calling from, Mosley says “Santa Monica”—which also happens to be the setting for the opening pages