Sona Charaipotra

New York

Writer, Editor and Author at Freelance

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Articles

Jason Mott Is Living the Dream

4 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Sona Charaipotra

Ask any aspiring author, and they’ll tell you Jason Mott is living the dream. He was working as a customer service rep at Verizon—“getting yelled at on the phone, all day, every day,” he says—when he sold his debut novel, The Returned, in 2012. It was then adapted for television as Resurrection, which ran for two seasons on ABC.
16 Best Kindle Unlimited Books to Download Today

2 months ago | rd.com | Sona Charaipotra

The best books on Kindle UnlimitedBook nerds know that buying books, even online, can add up fast when you’re a voracious reader. A cost-saving way to get more books for less is the Amazon Kindle Unlimited plan, which lets you borrow from a catalog of more than 4 million titles—up to 20 at a time—to upload to your Kindle or tablet for a set cost each month.
16 Best Kindle Unlimited Books to Download Today

2 months ago | rd.com | Sona Charaipotra

Reader's Digest, Via Merchant (7) Reader's Digest, Via Merchant (7) Amazon's epic free catalog is a treasure trove of amazing reads for book lovers. Here are our picks for the best Kindle Unlimited books to get you started. Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature.
11 Great Books for Mothers and Daughters to Read Together

Feb 28, 2025 | rd.com | Sona Charaipotra

These books for mothers and daughters are all about the relationship that defines us—and all the trauma (and drama!) that comes with it.
24 Best Romance Novels, According to Bookstore Owners

Jan 15, 2025 | rd.com | Sona Charaipotra

We asked the owners of our favorite romance bookstores to share their must-read romance novels—happy endings nonnegotiable.
10 Banned Books Your Kids Should Be Reading

Nov 26, 2024 | msn.com | Sona Charaipotra

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10 Banned Books Your Kids Should Be Reading

Nov 26, 2024 | huffpost.com | Sona Charaipotra

Author Samira Ahmed’s latest young-adult novel, “This Book Won’t Burn,” is nothing if not timely. The book, which hit shelves in May, centers on Noor Khan, a high school senior who discovers that the library at her new school is being ravaged by book banners who have been slowly (but legally) swiping books right off the shelves — and most of the books are by writers of color or queer authors. It’s a page torn right out of her own real-life experience.
10 Banned Books Your Kids Should Be Reading

Nov 26, 2024 | flipboard.com | Sona Charaipotra

1 day agoLong before Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were holding space for the lyrics of “Defying Gravity,” there was “Wicked” the Broadway musical. And before that, there was “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” by Gregory Maguire, based on L. Frank Baum’s characters in “The …
Nnedi Okorafor Did It Her Way

Nov 15, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Sona Charaipotra

While 2024 has been perhaps the busiest and most hectic year of her career, Nnedi Okorafor wouldn’t have it any other way. She was inducted into the Science Fiction & Fantasy Hall of Fame in July. She published the novella She Who Knows: Firespitter in August. She’s currently promoting her new autobiographical novel, Death of the Author,out in January from Morrow. That will be followed by a second novella, One Way Witch, and a graphic novel, The Space Cat, both due in 2025.
Samrat Upadhyay Wants You to Expect the Unexpected

Oct 25, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Sona Charaipotra

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