Book Riot Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is a writer and former bookseller from San Diego, CA whose Spanish is even faster than her English. When not reading or writing, she enjoys dreaming up travel itineraries and drinking entirely too much tea. She is a regular co-host on the All the Books podcast who especially loves mysteries, gothic lit, mythology/folklore, and all things witchy. Vanessa can be found on Instagram at @BuenosDiazSD or taking pictures of pretty trees in Portland, OR, where she now resides.
As part of it's 50th anniversary celebration, the Booker Prize Foundation has announced the launch of the Golden Man Booker Award. The prize will crown one book out of 51 past Man Booker Prize winners as the best book published in the last 50 years.
Representation matters, but only if it's done accurately. It isn't enough to include diverse characters if they aren't portrayed authentically.
Angie Thomas' award winning novel The Hate U Give has been banned by a Katy, Texas school district without the usual review process.
A trip to the book town of Hay-on-Wye.
How Reading Dan Brown's Origin while in Barcelona reminded me of ways in which reading while traveling enriches the reading experience.
Let me have these essential and protective tools as I find the courage to tackle beautiful, terrible, soul-shaking works of art.
One reader on finding herself in a book about magical Latinx teens in New York.