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1 week ago | 
bookriot.com | CJ Connor
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Cozy fantasy may be the latest subgenre to hit YA and adult fantasy, but in middle grade, it’s always been here. Middle grade authors are wonderful at creating magical worlds that, no matter when you read them, feel like catching up with a good friend.
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1 month ago | 
bookriot.com | CJ Connor
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I deeply believe that the books we read as children have the potential to change us more than at any other time in our lives. That’s likely why we hold middle grade classics with such reverence and can’t help but recommend them again and again to young readers.
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1 month ago | 
bookriot.com | CJ Connor
Brought to you by Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of SourcebooksHazel is struggling to keep her private investigation business afloat when Madeline Hemsley, a mysterious socialite, makes her an offer too enticing to resist. An orphan girl has disappeared from a children’s home, and Madeline wants Hazel to find her.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | CJ Connor
6 hours agoSign up for our Books newsletter for the latest reviews, author interviews, industry news and more. Bestsellers Lists for March 22, 2025 📚 Hardcover Fiction 📚 Hardcover Non-Fiction 📚 Paperback Fiction 📚 Canadian Fiction 📚 Canadian Non-Fiction 📚 Juvenile 📚 Self-improvement 📚 Biography 📚 Previous …
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2 months ago | 
bookriot.com | CJ Connor
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I have read countless memoirs about the books that changed a reader’s life for the better. They are fun to read but, on the whole, predictable.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | CJ Connor
Peter Wolf, has always been one of the great rock & roll raconteurs, ever since his days as the loudmouth singer of the J. Geils Band. But the Boston …
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | CJ Connor
Wattpad BooksParker, a bold fashionista, and Lizzie, a shy musician, have little in common except a shared best friend, Camille—and their mutual disdain. When one argument goes too far, Camille dares them to date for a month. As Parker and Lizzie navigate forced dates and unexpected vulnerability, their lives unravel in ways they didn’t expect. Can they overcome their old habits and discover if love can truly blossom in 30 days?
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | CJ Connor
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I never expected to fall in love with romantic suspense until I found Prophet. I came across it by chance at San Diego’s Mysterious Galaxy bookstore while on vacation and was soon captivated by how its intricate, danger-filled plot heightened the tension between its two leads.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz |CJ Connor
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Task #3 of the 2025 Read Harder Challenge is “read a queer mystery” and I am happy to report that I had to work to narrow this list down. Finding LGBTQ rep in mystery—or any other genre—shouldn’t require intense sleuthing, but it wasn’t that long ago that the mystery genre lacked diversity on every level.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | CJ Connor
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I never expected to fall in love with romantic suspense until I found Prophet. I came across it by chance at San Diego’s Mysterious Galaxy bookstore while on vacation and was soon captivated by how its intricate, danger-filled plot heightened the tension between its two leads.
