Reader Question – The book about the girl that struggles with her mental health, writes fan fiction and she has a crush…
Breeana needs our book help! Oh yeah!!! Best friend’s brother trope. To be honest, thinking back to my past as a teen and college girl, I NEVER had a crush on my best friend’s brothers. *shudders* 😂 She asks: Help me find this book. There is a girl whose best friend has a brother who […]
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for May 30, 2024
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2024 is the Year of Queer Polyamorous Books, and I’m Here for It
Death’s Country by R. M. Romero Now, let’s get into the fantasy queer polyam books out this year! Buckle up, because this premise has a lot going on. This is a queer, polyamorous, Latine YA retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice set in Miami…told in verse. Andres drowned in a river in São Paulo one year […]
TikTok Turns The Shadow Work Journal Into a Viral Hit
TikTok Turns Self-Published Journal Into Million-Copy Hit Here is the TikTok feedback loop in action. (If you haven’t already read Kyle Chayka’s Filterworld, you’re gonna want to after this story.) In 2021, after coming across Carl Jung’s theories about the shadow self and finding them helpful for managing her anxiety, Keila Shaheen self-published The Shadow […]
What are You Reading This Week? — May 30, 2024
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It felt so strange not to check in with you all on Monday! I hope if you had the day off it was restorative, and if you didn’t, that you still had some time to read. I’m Canadian, […]
5 Books to Better Understand Queer & Trans Identities and Issues
Moving on up for tweens, teens, and adults who want to understand and communicate with teens and tweens (and, really, with anyone), Juno Dawson’s This Book is Gay provides a funny, frank, informative guide to all the things you may wondered about LGBTQ+ life but hesitated to ask. How do you come out? How do […]
Spice Up Your Summer with Steamy Beach Reads
👯 Here are the best book club books coming out in June. 🏳️⚧️ Looking for some books to help you (or someone you love) better understand queer and trans identities? We’ve got you covered. 🌈 Listen, we know it’s fruitless to respond to outrage on Facebook, but we can’t resist when the comment is: “People […]
The Best Recent LGBTQ+ Books to Read for Pride Month
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. June is only a few days away, which means it’s time to start planning Pride celebrations! And for readers, that means building a themed TBR. It’s always a good time to read queer books, but Pride is the […]
Reader Question – The book where she’s being abused, she meets two guys, and one kills the assaulter… and there’s so much more!
Emy is looking for this one! Holy moly crazy sounding!! Almost sounds like a bully book… She asks: Hi Maryse, I hope you are well and I hope you can help me. I’m looking for this book that is very “The Summer We Fell”-esque (Elizabeth O’Roark). Setting, high school. The heroine is being sexually abused […]
10 Steamy Beach Reads to Spice Up Your Summer
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Isabelle Popp has written all sorts of things, ranging from astrophysics research articles and math tests to crossword puzzles and poetry. These days she’s writing romance. When she’s not reading or writing, she’s probably knitting or scouring used […]