Erica Ezeifedi

2 days ago | bookriot.com | Erica Ezeifedi

For the past few months, we’ve been looking at checkout statistics for Libby—the app that patrons can use to check out ebooks, audiobooks, and emagazines. For May, we’re switching things up a bit. This time, we’re looking at the check-ourt numbers for ebooks as well as audiobooks. Both sets of statistics offer some interesting insight into library patron interests throughout the country. The books span from a very recent mega-bestselling thriller to a book by a certain Georgian-era fave.

2 days ago | flipboard.com | Erica Ezeifedi

4 hours agoWe’ve reached the point where just about everything you’ve ever done in bed now has an official name. The latest addition to the ever-expanding sex dictionary? “Shallowing”— a subtle move that plenty of people were already doing, but probably didn’t know they were “doing it” in any codified …

4 days ago | bookriot.com | Erica Ezeifedi

It’s always exciting to step into a new month and see what book publishers have in store for us. June has the added bonus of being the first month of summer, and so all the books coming out around this time also have the luxury of being associated with summer reading. And let me just say that we have all the summer reading recs. In addition to our list of the Best Beach Reads of All Time, there is this list, a compilation of the most noteworthy books coming out in June, according to our writers.

4 days ago | bookriot.com | Erica Ezeifedi

With May having just ended, we can now look back at all the bookish things the month brought. There were lists upon lists of excellent summer reading—from The New York Times’ fiction and nonfiction lists to a general list by The LA Times’. Esquire got a bit of a jump on us with their list of the best books of the year so far, an we even released our list of the Best Beach Reads of All Time, just ahead of the sunny season.

5 days ago | bookriot.com | Erica Ezeifedi

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Just before the beginning of a new season is always exciting for a seasonal reader. Bookish publications release big lists of the books their editors are most looking forward to, and there’s a general excitement surrounding the new wave of releases.