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When Thea de Winter ruins a pivotal festival by freeing wild fae “entertainment” from their cruel confinement, the Winter Court’s key enforcer, Kerboros, is tasked with capturing the untamable and beautiful changeling. It’s in neither Kerboros’ interest nor power to deny those orders, no matter how distasteful. Despite his veneer of authority, much like Thea,

The Hugo Awards are one of the biggest sci-fi and fantasy awards, and through the years, they’ve been plagued with controversy. The Hugo Awards are voted on by members, which means they fall somewhere between a typical literary award and a Goodreads Choice award: a popularity contest with a caveat. It also means they are

In Chloe Benjamin’s exquisitely imagined and emotionally rich Under Story, a woman moves to Antarctica in search of a fresh start and finds far more than she expected. It’s an extreme choice. The icebound landmass where McMurdo Station is situated sees “less rain than the Sahara” and is so remote that airplane travel is restricted

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Ah, the park on a sunny day, where one encounters an embarrassment of riches: fresh air, beautiful trees, colorful flowers, chirpy birds and wild animals. Also enjoying the scenery are other people, sometimes too many, who might speak too loudly, speed-skate on the walking paths or have barking dogs that scare away birds. How can

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In her thoughtful and deeply unsettling The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore (We the People) examines our headlong race toward a technology-driven form of governance that she argues is rapidly supplanting liberal democracy, and that may, in its full flowering, deprive us

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K.S. Shay’s Portrait of a Witch Undone is an unforgettable fantasy set in the marshes of the North Shore of Massachusetts, following the adventures of coven outcast Maeve Ryan. Ever since a spell went wildly wrong for Maeve and her best friend and ritual partner, Ash, their coven has been plagued by visits from the

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Young scholar Edmund is done with his life in service to the Many-Armed God. While he loves his studies and the time he’s allowed to research and write, he can no longer ignore his temple’s darker side, especially its discrimination against women. Tasked with transporting an ancient sword and some books to the city of

You asked (for a return of our super-soft OG hoodies), and we are answering. In celebration of Book Riot’s 15th anniversary coming up October 1, we’re bringing our original hoodies out of the vault. Available in black and charcoal, they’re bonkers comfortable and so durable that many of us on staff are still wearing the

Readers looking for a whimsical love story will be delighted by Sylvie Cathrall’s The Art of Charming a Changeling, which is full of both bashful yearning and nerdy fairy art history. It’s a gauzy, moss-covered romantic fantasy for anyone who ever had a Kinuko Y. Craft poster on their wall as a kid. IYKYK. Perhaps

We’re crying into our sweet tea today as we mourn the passing of Dolly Parton, who died this morning at the age of 80. The iconic musician—as bookish as she was busty—was a tireless advocate for and patron of the literary arts. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, launched in 1995, has provided more than three million

A blend of memoir, history and biography, Wilbert L. Cooper’s The Black Shield: An American Memoir of Family and Power is an exploration of paradox. Cooper’s parents were Black police officers who used their guns and power “as symbols of our freedom in a country that will not stop killing or incarcerating Black folks.” As

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[S] Don’t Upstage the Body The fourth novel from Naomi Stephens, Don’t Upstage the Body is a witty Christian mystery that follows the Halfpennys, a family of actors who make their living as professional mourners. Their gig at reclusive Lord Basil Montfort’s service takes an especially dramatic turn when Hippolyta Halfpenny discovers another body than

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Part memoir, part trail guide and part true crime tale, Earl Swift’s enthralling Up on Cove Mountain: Adventure, Tragedy, and a Quest for Meaning on the Appalachian Trail conveys the unquenchable lure of the titular North American trek’s beauties and dangers. It’s a tale of two hikes. In 1990, Swift first sets out to walk

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Civil Rights activist, calypso singer and actor Harry Belafonte said that in her time, Mahalia Jackson was the “single most powerful black woman in America,’’ by which he meant there was not a Black American “who did not respond to her civil rights message.” Best known as the finest gospel singer of her era—and, arguably,

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Mark Kurlansky’s excellent cultural history Salt has gone viral 25 years after its publication. We recommend seven more books that track the history of civilization through a single subject. Originally Posted Here

The rights to adapt the bestselling book Theo of Golden into a film are currently being negotiated with Warner Bros Pictures, and Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks is the hopeful star. Hanks, Gil Netter, and Gary Goetzman would produce, while Allen Levi, the book’s author, would executive produce the project. Theo of Golden started as a

David Baron examines humanity’s enduring preoccupation with the red planet in The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America. In this engrossing narrative, Baron looks back at Percival Lowell (1855-1916), an astronomer who believed some form of intelligent life had constructed canals on Mars. Lowell’s theories became widespread and helped

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It was the worst of times. Full stop; no romantic Dickensian opening here. After a disastrous El Nino laid waste to Indian agriculture in 1876, the British colonial government doubled down on the misery, instituting a laissez-faire policy on the price of grain. People who couldn’t afford to buy the crops that they’d grown watched

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Tjitske Kamphuis’ Go, Crow is an immersive, dreamy book that’s sparse in text but rich in visual splendor—and the subtle power of a story about a day in the life of an enigmatic, beautiful crow. After finishing this rhyming, rhythmic tale, readers will find new meaning in the idiom “as the crow flies.” They will

It’s been five long years since A Court of Silver Flames, the fifth book in Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series, was released. Now, Maas has revealed the covers and titles of the sixth and seventh books in the series. Book six is A Court of Splintered Harmony, and it comes