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What’s also concerning is how many lawmakers and board officials desire to make–or have made–these “tools” necessary ones for professionals to use to do their jobs. York County Library in South Carolina, for example, cites RatedBooks as one of the reputable sources library workers should use to make collection decisions (something that the partisan-designed site

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By the time this post is out in the world, I will have seen Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey at least two times. There are a few minor things I might change were it up to me, but overall it blew me away; for a nerd who loves Greek mythology, an epic journey, lots of juicy

Since 2006, the Center for Fiction has been highlighting the best debut novels of the year through its First Novel Prize. This year’s 180 eligible titles were published in the US between January 1st and December 31st, and were narrowed down to 19 books by more than 500 writers, librarians, booksellers, and others. The shortlist

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A comprehensive education on American culinary traditions has to include African American foodways. Needless to say, there is no one culture that defines American cuisine. From the crops grown by Indigenous peoples to the ingredients brought to the U.S. by immigrants seeking a taste of home, the library of American recipes is contained in a

Rebecca is channeling a bard, Jeff’s referencing multiple epics, Vanessa’s making noises about the score. The nerd factor is turned all the way up today, because we’ve all officially seen The Odyssey. We always do the homework here at Book Riot, and we won’t even try to pretend that we don’t love it when the

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Every month, Our Queerest Shelves has a roundup of the best queer books out that month. Now that we’re halfway through the year, I’ve combined all of those picks into a collection: The Best Queer Books Out in 2026. There are currently just over 100 books on the list, and I will be updating it

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Every month, Book Riot does a round-up of the most exciting new sci-fi and fantasy releases of the year. But let’s be honest, science fiction is often drowned out by fantasy in the SFF space. So, we’ve gone through all those new releases round-ups to highlight just the science fiction titles in this collection: The

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Book censorship and attacks on LGBTQ+ people from the right have been nonstop since 2021. Thanks to far-right social media that thrives off picking a victim of the day and going all in on harassment and stochastic terrorism, as well as legislators who spend more time thinking about what’s happening in the underpants of children

Rebecca Yarros has announced the fourth addition to the mega-bestselling Empyrean series on Instagram. The book is titled Threshing Day and will be available on September 29th this year. Threshing Day is a little different from the other books in the series, though. It is not a sequel to the third book, Onyx Storm. Instead,

One of the great pleasures of being human is finding out what things bring us joy, and the pursuit of those things. For instance, perhaps you love to read, but you haven’t picked up anything in the science fiction or fantasy genres yet. If that’s the case—welcome! Come on in, the water’s fine. For readers

The Odyssey opens in theaters tomorrow, and the reviews of Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation are almost as rosy as the fingers of Homer’s beloved dawn. Here’s a look at the reviews: A genuinely grand, gutsy vision, “The Odyssey” thrills generously for the bulk of its near three-hour running time: Every few minutes, it seems, it

Christopher Nolan’s 2026 film The Odyssey comes out in theaters on July 17th, and the hype for this movie has been a long time building. The film adapts to screen the epic poem of the ancient Greek writer Homer, following King Odysseus’s arduous journey home to reunite with his family at the end of the

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It is an especially challenging time to work in libraries. The needs continue to grow; the budgets are flat, if not shrinking; and the assault by outside parties to destabilize and defund the institutions continues. Library workers are finding their mental health impacted, even–and sometimes especially!–if they love the job dearly. Though it might not

What goes into creating a Literary Activism story? A lot of time, energy, and effort. Not every story about book censorship or library challenges makes the weekly link roundup cut, as each story is vetted for as much context and insight as possible. For news stories that are reported, time and energy goes into doing

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At the midpoint of the year, we here at Book Riot like to review the many (many, many) great new titles we’ve read so far and determine which ones are the absolute best. It’s not easy narrowing that list down to a few choice representatives, but as you’ll see below, we’ve managed to select five

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A couple weeks ago, I shared a list of 650+ new queer books out in the first half of 2026. Now, I’m back with a spreadsheet of 250+ queer books coming out in the second half of the year. You might notice that those are pretty different numbers, and that’s because I usually learn about

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