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A Supernatural Suspense Reading List

This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by The Reckoning by Alma Katsu. Alma Katsu delivers the highly anticipated follow-up to ...

Gatsby in Real Life: Nonfiction About Fitzgerald and His Time (Part I)

As an avid reader of nonfiction, my first impulse after finishing a book like The Great Gatsby, a classic American novel ...

Ode to Enthusiasm

This will come as no shock to the people who know me — people who have seen me dance for ...

The Perfect Book, The Perfect Soundtrack

As a general rule, people are slightly embarrassed by who they were as teenagers. For most of us, it was ...

Everything’s Coming Up Comics!

This is a guest post by Ali Colluccio. Ali enjoys comics, cocktails, and curling. She lives in Brooklyn with her ...

Who Said It: Christian Grey or Pepé Le Pew?

Through a series of happy accidents (read: awesome internet rabbit holes), we here at Book Riot* noticed recently that Christian ...

What Makes a Beautiful Sentence?

Earlier this week, Publisher’s Weekly posted a short list of five “perfect” sentences on its blog. The post says, “To get ...

Margaret Atwood’s IndieGoGo Campaign for Fanado Gains Steam

A month ago, I covered the launch of Margaret Atwood’s Fanado on IndieGoGo. The project, which is an interactive  online video ...

What Would Gatsby Text? (Phone Case Giveaway)

This summer has brought a spate of “Texts from [notable character goes here]” memes, not to mention the ever-popular Text ...

Recommending Books for the Characters of BREAKING BAD

Frequently grim, but just as often daffy, each season of AMC’s Breaking Bad crystalizes into pure, novelistic TV drama. Like ...