Jessica Pryde

2 months ago | bookriot.com | TJ Alexander |Erica Ezeifedi |Jessica Pryde

Somehow, we are already in the third month of the year. February both felt like it dragged and went by too quickly. What is time, amirite? Temporal musings aside, March has so many books to be excited about. While the featured books have been picked out of this month’s many great releases by our writers—and include everything from the fifth Hunger Games novel to a trans-Regency romance—I also want to highlight a few titles out this week in particular.

Feb 13, 2025 | bookriot.com | Jessica Pryde

Sometimes I hate superlatives. The word “best” really carries a lot of weight, and there’s a difference between “best” and “favorite”—one is supposed to be more objective than the other. And with fiction, you can’t really be objective about what really counts as the best of something. Is it the best, technically speaking? Is it perfectly put together, down to sentence structure and word choice? Does it cause the best emotional reaction, the best reader satisfaction?

Feb 7, 2025 | bookriot.com | Adriana Herrera |Erica Ezeifedi |Jessica Pryde

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. A new month has brought a new list of the most read books on Goodreads. Kind of. You see, a few of the top 5 are new compared to the last time we did a weekly roundup (January 24th), but they’re going to mostly be familiar to you if you’ve been following these roundups for awhile.

Feb 3, 2025 | bookriot.com | Jessica Pryde

How’s 2025 treating you, romance readers? We’ve had quite the first month (at least in the US)! Record-breaking weather, devastating fires, the continuing downward turn into fascism—we could all use a break. Here’s hoping we’re all taking care of ourselves and using romance as our necessary balm. Once again, I had a lot of trouble culling this list down to the recommended length for this sort of thing, so sorry to my editors (insert Keke Palmer voice).

Jan 20, 2025 | audible.com | Jessica Pryde

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