Laura Sackton is a queer book nerd and freelance writer, known on the internet for loving winter, despising summer, and going overboard with extravagant baking projects. In addition to her work at Book Riot, she reviews for BookPage and AudioFile, and writes a weekly newsletter, Books & Bakes, celebrating queer lit and tasty treats. You can catch her on Instagram shouting about the queer books she loves and sharing photos of the walks she takes in the hills of Western Mass (while listening to audiobooks, of course).
Here are a few of the audiobooks we've enjoyed while cleaning, driving, knitting, or walking the dog. Anything but eating (consider yourself warned).
A reader asks what it takes to get her to actually buy a book, and discovers exactly five reasons she purchases new reads.
The year is coming to a close, but there's still time to read these 17 comic books under 130 pages. Let the comics reading marathon begin!
50 ideas for trackable, DIY reading challenges. From the serious to the silly, these challenges are sure to enrich your reading life.
For our spreadsheet nerds out there: here are the most interesting stats one reader tracked this year.
Reading challenges that won't stress you out, and that you can take as long to finish as you want!
Easy instructions for how to gift a kindle book, some great tips for how to creatively wrap ebooks, and a few other great ideas for digital book gifts.
How Upper Story Books became one reader's haven, where she was not labeled other, weird, "the poet, or "the lonely writer."
Looking to weave racial justice into your reading life? Here are ten tips to help you become a more actively anti-racist reader.