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3 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz
Though I am famously a fall girl, this year, I welcome the dawn of spring in all its symbolic glory. The flowers are flowering, the sun is breaking through the clouds, and Cadbury Cream Eggs abound at my local CVS. Maybe I’ll finally hang up the art in my apartment that’s been piled up on an armchair for six months, or read the books I’ve sworn were up next on my TBR. Will I actually do these things? Hell if I know! But spring means it all feels just slightly more possible.
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1 month ago | 
bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Latine Lit, a celebration of all things Latine literature. I’m Book Riot’s Managing Editor, Vanessa Diaz, and I am so excited to be at the helm of our newest newsletter, exploring a subject that’s so deeply personal to me.
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1 month ago | 
bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I’m a firm believer in having something to read on my person at all times. You must never know when you’re going to be at the DMV for half a day, or waiting for your friend who is perpetually late for dinner plans.
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1 month ago | 
bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher RSS This week, Vanessa recommends two books by authors with new books out this week: a delightful caper involving a mysterious wooden duck, and a genre-bending nonfiction read for fans of true crime and beautiful prose.
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1 month ago | 
bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I have been obsessed with Dorothy Zbornak, Blanche Devereaux, Rose Nyland, and Sophia Petrillo since I was a kid watching The Golden Girls with my mom.
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2 months ago | 
bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Today's Featured Book DealsIn Case You Missed Yesterday's Most Popular Book DealsPrevious Daily Deals
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2 months ago | 
bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz |CJ Connor
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Task #3 of the 2025 Read Harder Challenge is “read a queer mystery” and I am happy to report that I had to work to narrow this list down. Finding LGBTQ rep in mystery—or any other genre—shouldn’t require intense sleuthing, but it wasn’t that long ago that the mystery genre lacked diversity on every level.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s still solidly winter as I write this post, but I’m also in Southern California. The even warmer-than-usual temperatures (hello, climate change!) mean the clothes I packed for the trip from Portland to San Diego mostly missed the mark.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz
Today’s recommendation is a book I picked for Book Riot’s Best Books of 2024, one that I’m this close to handing out on street corners like a weirdo. From the author of Five Midnights and The Storyteller’s Death, this novel explores loss, grief, love, and how the world treats women of a certain age through magical realism and a life-changing sojourn in Spain. Tere Sanchez is a 60-year-old professor in Vermont who’s been grieving the death of her beloved husband.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz
Bloom BooksHe's a ruthless, battle-scarred warrior with a dark past, and she's stuck pretending to be his wife to save a fantasy kingdom. From New York Times bestselling author Kristin Cast comes a new tarot-inspired fantasy series. Scarlett St. Clair meets Outlander in the seductive and spellbinding world of Towerfall, starting with The Empress, a high-heat, fake marriage romantasy with a swoon-worthy, morally-gray love interest.
