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Your 2024 Guide to (Mostly) Bookish Holiday Gifts

Welcome to our 2024 Holiday Gift Guide, where you'll find stocking stuffers, gifting deals, and (mostly) bookish gifts for every reader in your life.

Book Riot’s 2025 Read Harder Challenge

Join Book Riot's 2025 Read Harder Challenge to diversify your reading and discover your next new favorite book!

Under the Radar BIPOC Books You May Have Missed

Under the radar BIPOC releases include a darkly funny thriller out of Hong Kong, a genre-bending memoir, and even a middle grade comic.

Best New Cozy Books to Snuggle Up With This Winter

These 7 books—from short stories of BookTok superstar Olivie Blake to nostalgic new manga translations—will make your winter perfectly cozy.

The Best Books of 2024

Hear ye! Hear ye! We’re announcing the Best Books of 2024! We’ve assembled our favorite reads of the year across ...

5 Cozy and Comforting Queer Books, Because We Need That Right Now

Here are five gentle, comforting queer books to fortify you in these trying times, from cozy fantasy to a nonbinary FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF.

The Best Thrillers of The Past 10 Years

Strap in and prepare for suspense. These are the best thrillers of the past ten years, from a juicy revenge story to a tense heist novel.

7 Queer Ghost Stories to Read This Fall

Ghosts in queer books can be sympathetic, horrific, comic relief, or even the main character, as these queer ghost stories prove.

Vampires Take Historical Fiction

Dracula and Carmilla aren't the only vampires you should fear in these vampire historical fiction books about fighting and becoming monsters.

5 “Classic” Comics You Can Skip (and What to Read Instead)

We can acknowledge the impact of the classic comics and also critique them. So skip these classics, if you want, and read these instead.