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2 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | Susie Dumond
Once a month or so, I’ll be scrolling away on the ol’ interwebs, minding my own business, when BAM, some random bookish account chooses violence by posting something along the lines of, “It’s not that I’m homophobic, it’s just that there are no good sapphic romances.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Susie Dumond
1 hour agoBrittany Romano, 32, was not looking to start her own long-distance rom-com last September when she showed up to JetBlue’s lounge at Kennedy International Airport 10 minutes before her flight was set to board — but she did. That’s where she met Matt Harrington, 35, a schoolteacher from Pasadena, …
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1 month ago | 
bookriot.com | Susie Dumond
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. In the early hours of April 30, 1975, American troops rushed to evacuate Saigon, along with thousands of Vietnamese civilian allies fighting for limited space aboard U.S. planes and helicopters.
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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Susie Dumond |Elif Shafak |Gina Balibrera |Kira Jane Buxton
Few literary devices intrigue and engage quite like a unique narrative perspective. Even if an arc feels familiar, the introduction of a new lens can shift the story's impact entirely. If you're looking for stories that can help you look at the world in a new way, tune into one of these audiobooks with nonhuman narrators and protagonists. We've got stories written from the perspectives of animals, plants, robots, inanimate objects, and even former humans.
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1 month ago | 
bookriot.com | Susie Dumond
Women and girls frequently find themselves on the victim side of a horror narrative. But the scary stories I simply can’t get enough of put women in a very different position: the monster, the thing that goes bump in the night, the source of bone-chilling fear. These kinds of horror novels imagine women not as powerless, but as powerful and terrifying in how they choose to wield that power.
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2 months ago | 
bookriot.com | Susie Dumond
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. There’s something special about starting a new book: finding your footing in a fresh setting, gathering first impressions of characters, getting a glimpse of what adventures the author has in store for you. The best short story collections allow you to do this over and over again.
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2 months ago | 
bookriot.com | Susie Dumond
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. An enduring love of food has a way of seeping into every corner of your life. As a foodie and a bibliophile, I personally can’t get enough books centered around bold flavors and the culinary world. Books with food themes are as irresistible as candy at the grocery checkout counter for me.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | Susie Dumond
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Those who fight hardest against LGBTQ+ rights would have us believe that queerness is a modern phenomenon. In truth, queer people have always existed and will continue to exist, regardless of what laws or executive orders are used to limit our freedoms and visibility.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | Susie Dumond
Celadon Books, publishers of Cleavage, from bestselling author of She’s Not There by Jennifer Finney Bolyan. What is the difference between men and women? Jennifer Finney Boylan examines the divisions—as well as the command ground—between the genders. Boylan’s She’s Not There was the first bestselling work written by a transgender American and she has become the go-to person for insight into the impact of gender on our lives.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | Susie Dumond
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Reading is a radical act. Books help us see the world through someone else’s eyes, understand different perspectives on difficult topics, and get a fuller picture of our past, present, and future. And many readers love books because they’re inherently political.
