Erica Ezeifedi

New York

Associate Editor at Book Riot

Associate Editor @BookRiot

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The Best New Book Releases Out May 13, 2025

1 day ago | bookriot.com | Erica Ezeifedi

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. In case you haven’t heard, the current administration is barreling forward with its assault on intellectualism, books, and libraries. Their latest notable offense is the firing of Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, abruptly, with no reason other than her being Black, if we’re being honest.
3 Indie Books I'm Reading Right Now

2 days ago | bookriot.com | Erica Ezeifedi

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Haymarket recently had a sale on poetry books in celebration of National Poetry Month that coincided with a sale on a few of their other titles.
Keep Your Book Club Fresh With These Book Club Accessories

2 days ago | bookriot.com | Erica Ezeifedi

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. My time spent writing book club recommendation newsletters every week and being a part of two separate book clubs has me consistently grounded in all things bookish and clubby. It’s given me actual books to recommend and a practical perspective for writing.
Introducing: Reading and Resistance-And How Literature Has Always Been Tied to American Freedom

6 days ago | bookriot.com | Erica Ezeifedi

My colleague Kelly Jensen, a champion of book-banning documentation, connected me with the publicist of a librarian a few weeks back. The librarian’s name was Rodney Freeman, and he was doing interviews and various other publicity for his documentary on Black American librarianship.
Introducing: Reading and Resistance—And How Literature Has Always Been Tied to American Freedom | Flipboard

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Erica Ezeifedi

10 hours agoNEW YORK − Police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who took over part of Columbia University's main library on May 7. Ahead of finals week at the Ivy League campus, student activists clashed with campus public safety officials and contracted security guards inside and outside Butler …
Books to Read If You Loved the Movie Sinners

1 week ago | bookriot.com | Erica Ezeifedi

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. By the time I saw Ryan Coogler’s Sinners last week, it felt like I was already behind. The movie seemed to take hold of moviegoers’ attention as soon as it was released—though this didn’t come without a bit of oddly disparaging framing by certain outlets.
May's Best New Books

1 week ago | bookriot.com | Erica Ezeifedi

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The best releases for each month have been hard to narrow down this year, and May is no different. This month, as with other, recent months, I’ve gathered a list of highly recommended books by Book Riot writers who regularly cover the genres they’re recommending books for.
A Reading List to Understand the Movie Sinners-Plus More BIPOC Lit News

1 week ago | bookriot.com | Erica Ezeifedi

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s been a little while since I did a compilation of interesting BIPOC lit and lit adjacent news.
The Best Book Club Books of April

2 weeks ago | bookriot.com | Erica Ezeifedi

This is the second month in a row that I’ve opted to look back at the most book club-friendly books that came out in the current month. I think switching over to this method, as opposed to making a roundup at the very beginning of the month allows me to let some books marinate for a minute and see what people thought of them. It’s also better if you’d like to make one of these books the next read for your book club since they should all be out by the time this new list comes out.
The Best Book Club Books of April

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Erica Ezeifedi

NowThe Best New Book Releases Out April 29, 2023It seems like it’s rare for the intended audience of an open letter to actually read it and comment, but that’s exactly what happened with the one …1 day ago15 Fascinating Facts About John Kennedy Toole’s ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’If it wasn’t for John Kennedy Toole’s mom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel would likely have been lost to time.