#Genre

Cover Image for Salman Rushdie’s Memoir, JOSEPH ANTON

On Twitter yesterday, Salman Rushdie showed off the US cover for his memoir, Joseph Anton, which will be released  September ...

My YA Film Adaptation Wish List

Harry Potter. Twilight. Now, The Hunger Games. Apart from being the last three huge YA hits, they were also the ...

The Loneliness of Being a Non-Hunger Games Reader

I have not read The Hunger Games. I haven’t read any of the Harry Potter books, either. I’m completely okay ...

Rue, Race, and The Hunger Games

Rue is not white. In the novel The Hunger Games, Katniss describes Rue as “a twelve-year-old girl from District 11. ...

A Dude’s Guide to The Hunger Games

If you’ve been avoiding The Hunger Games novels — because they’re YA, because the protagonist is a teenage girl, because ...

The Hunger Games: Is the Book Better Than the Movie?

You can always spot a bookish person by the speed with which they say, “the book is better” when you ...

I Like Twilight. Deal With It.

People often assume that because I’m an avid reader, whose favorite authors include the likes of David McCullough, Elizabeth Gaskell, ...

The Sweet Spot: Middle Grade Fiction

There’s no denying that one of the biggest and most prestigious literary awards for children’s books out there is the ...

Nonfiction for the Life and Times of MAD MEN

Sometime today, my fellow Book Riot contributors will be posting their book recommendations for the characters of Mad Men. Although ...

Five Titles for Fall: Sci-Fi/Fantasy

…/Horror/Thriller/Speculative Fiction. As I perused the fall catalogs, I started to notice that these genres have the potential to overlap. ...