Chilling Mystery & Thriller Reads for Your Summer TBR
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Plan Your Summer 2025 Reading With These Upcoming Mysteries & Thrillers
Did your winter winter too hard this year? Maybe you just always look forward to summer? Even if you’re an “I hate summer, bring me the cold!” person, these mysteries publishing June through August 2025 will make you at least wish for their pub dates to arrive sooner, regardless of the weather.
New YA Book Releases This Week
And just like that, we’re in the final full week of the third month of this year. Perhaps you, like me, think it’s been both the longest and quickest first quarter of the year simultaneously. Whatever the case may be, here’s your final roundup of new YA releases for March 2025.
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The Relationship Dynamic Between These Women is Giving White Lotus, Season 3
Season three of HBO’s The White Lotus includes an achingly familiar friendship dynamic between three women. Three adult women have known each other since childhood and are on a girls’ trip to reconnect, but whenever one leaves the room, the other two inevitably gossip about the other. Their long-standing connection is clear, as is their eagerness to air distaste for each other’s life decisions. A column from The Toast called “Hey Ladies,” started more than a decade ago, explores a similar phenomenon through one year of bachelorette event planning.
20 Years of Banning Looking for Alaska
While Looking for Alaska was growing in popularity, it also had another claim to fame, one unrelated to its themes or literary merit. Ten years after publication, in 2015, it had become the most banned book in the United States, according to the American Library Association.
One interesting aspect to the bans of John Green’s books is that he is someone who has consistently made videos on YouTube for the past 18 years. Not only is his book one of the most frequently banned titles of the past 20 years, he’s also spoken about the challenges throughout that time, and we can see how his approach his changed over the years.
5 Fascinating Stats About Modern Reading Habits
Author, literary historian, and data scientist Laura McGrath visits the Book Riot podcast to share some of the most interesting, surprising, and curious statistics about modern reading habits.
