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Lambda Literary, an organization supporting LGBTQ+ writers and championing LGBTQ+ literature, announced today the winners of the 32nd Lambda Literary Awards. These awards are given every year to outstanding books in over 20 categories across a broad range of genres. The 2020 winners represent the wide diversity of LGBTQ+ books being published today, and the

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Jewish American writer and LGBTQ+ activist Larry Kramer died today in New York City at the age of 84. The cause of death was pneumonia; Kramer had been HIV+ since 1988.  Kramer’s debut novel came in 1978 with Faggots. This well-researched but controversial portrayal of gay life in Manhattan and Fire Island went on to

As we reported late last month, the Mat-Su School District in Alaska voted to remove five classic books from curriculum and classroom use:  Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. All were pulled due to their

Just a quick note to all you Book Riot readers out there that we’re taking the day off for Memorial Day. Hope you all have an excellent, bookish Monday, and we’ll be back tomorrow with our regularly scheduled programming. In the meantime, here are recommendations for books about military service and a history of the

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Starting today, you can watch Taika Waititi and a star-studded cast of supporting actors read Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach on YouTube. The Oscar-winning writer and director has teamed up with the Roald Dahl Story Company to present a reading of the children’s classic in ten episodes, all benefitting Partners In Health, a

As tempting as it is to dress in head to toe book gear, Ms. Frizzle style, it may not always be the most practical approach. If you’re looking for ways to add a more subtle bit of bookish flair, treat yourself to some of the book themed jewelry below. All these pieces are a small

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Even after COVID-19 earned declaration as a pandemic and public health emergency, libraries made preparations for what that would mean. Many closed, shifting to digital work. One notable exception was Chicago Public Library, which kept their libraries open far past a point where staff felt safe, implementing no new safety measures to protect them. Now,

Over the past few months our world has changed in ways most of us could never have anticipated. During the Covid-19 pandemic readers might fall in two categories. There are those who gravitate towards books about disasters and dystopian worlds, and those who avoid them like… well… the plague! I fall into the second category

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Books with a deaf protagonist are pretty unusual. Two recent ones include Dark Pines by Will Dean and The Silent House by Nell Pattison. Now we’ve got Shh by Jocelyn Dexter – a police procedural and psychological thriller rolled into one neat package. And it’s gory stuff, with the author setting out her bloodstained stall

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The Best Translated Book Award 2020 shortlists for both the fiction and poetry awards have been announced at The Millions. Founded in 2007, the Best Translated Book Award brings attention to the best works of translated literature published in the previous year. The winning author and translator each receive a cash prize for both the fiction

Translated by Victoria Cribb — The Mist completes – or starts, depending on how you read it – Ragnar Jonasson’s Hidden Iceland series. The first in the series, The Darkness, introduced us to Hulda Hermansdottir, a police detective on the verge of retiring from the Reykjavik police force. It provided the background and revealed large

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Steph Cha has created a timely and unforgettable story about crime, injustice and the collision of two Los Angeles cultures, not written in abstract terms, but in the painful impact the conflict has on multiple generations of two families – one black and one Korean. Although most of the story takes place in 2019, it

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From the moment you are captive in the cockpit with pilot Vee Katchatourian as she makes an emergency landing in fog in 1943, you will be pulled in to the drama of this World War II thriller. Within seconds she meets Polish-born RAF flier Stefan Bergel. It’s chocks away for a tale of love, loyalty,

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