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Riot Readers Respond: The Fat Girls in Literature

Not long ago, Mariko Tamaki, writer/co-creator of graphic novel This One Summer, wrote an editorial on Huff Post Books titled ...

Five Books to Read When Life Feels Like it Sucks

Sometimes life can get you down. You ran out of your anti-depressants, your partner broke up with you, the job ...

Parabolas, Colors, and Tattered Pages: Creative Ways to Organize Your Bookshelves

A couple of years ago, Rioter Liberty gave you some fresh ideas for how to creatively organize your bookshelves. Because ...

Books Are Not Data

You might have come across a recent article by Joshua Rothman in The New Yorker entitled “An Attempt to Discover ...

10 Recent Google Trends in the World of Books and Reading

Popularity is a fickle thing, and not to be trusted. Lucky for us, Google knows what’s hot and what’s not. ...

How To Deal With the Book Buzz Blues

Welcome to Episode 2 of the Dear Book Nerd podcast! My guest host this week is once again the great Rebecca Schinsky. In this show, we answer two reader-submitted questions and discuss topics such as what makes a book a bestseller, how to choose what to read, and how to get back into the reading groove. This episode is sponsored by Audible.com.

2014: The Year of the Reader

It has never been a better time to be a reader! It’s a brand new year, and already articles declaring ...

A Book-Binge Survival Guide

Close your eyes and imagine. Oh wait, you need your eyes to read this- scratch that. Anyway, the holidays have ...

The Well-Readheads Talk Books in Books

LH: Last post, crumpet, you mentioned Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley, in which the main character owns a bookstore. ...

Show and Tell: Rioter Reading Places

The staff here at Book Riot love to talk about books – but we wouldn’t know so much about them ...