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).
My choice not to review comfort books has nothing to do with their "literary merit." It has everything to do with setting boundaries.
Take a dive into the Weird Queer genre, where traditional genres and binaries of all kinds disappear, merge, and mutate delightfully.
Nonfiction lovers, you're in luck, because there's so much great new nonfiction and poetry by AAPI authors to pick up right now, including Horse Barbie by Geena Rocero.
Here are eight fabulous award-winning fantasy books you might not have heard of, including The House of Rust by Khadijah Abdalla Bajaber.
Over the past few years, I've been thinking a lot about how to shift some of my bookish energy toward slower, more deliberate reading.
These books celebrate the mundane, the everyday, and the ordinary all around us.
Readers, we need to be better with how we talk about books. Here are just a few terms to banish from our collective vocabulary.
Are you ready to add a whole lot of excellent nonfiction to your spring TBR? Here are 8 of the best nonfiction books out April 2023!
From new releases to books to read for National Poetry month to award nominees like How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler and more, here are the queer books you need to read in April!
If you're looking for beautiful and atmospheric writing about place, make some room on your TBR for these books with setting as a character, starting with Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson.