There is such a breadth of queer life being covered by the books. We meet diverse families and children coming out as trans or gender-diverse, and other topics include first crushes, being yourself, the meaning of Pride, and the fabulousness of drag. As someone who didn’t grow up with any of this in childhood pop culture, these books have me warm, fuzzy, and occasionally teary. Regardless of whether you have family or friends who are LGBTQ+, take it from this librarian that it’s essential to show children various ways to be happy and true to themselves....

at Brightly: The Ultimate YA Summer Reading List at Bustle: 30 LGBTQIA+ Sci-Fi And Fantasy Books You Should Read This Pride Month at BuzzFeed: 16 Queer Love Stories To Read This Pride Month at Crime Reads: Five Great Thrillers Set in Isolated Places at Electric Lit: 8 Poetry Collections on Blackness at Elite Daily: 18 Books Featuring Interracial Relationships You Should Read In 2020 at Epic Reads: 20 Standalone Fantasy Novels for When You Can’t Commit at Get Literary: The Past Is Killer: 7 Grisly Reads for Alienist Fans at POPSUGAR: These Books Will Put Even a Heat Wave to Shame at Riveted: 15 Must-Read Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books with LGBTQIA+ Characters at SYFY Wire: 7 Queer Comics by Nonbinary Writers to Read This Pride Month at Tor....

Take the Thanksgiving Book Quiz What book did you get? Be sure to share your post-Thanksgiving book recommendation in the comments. And check out more bookish Thanksgiving content from Book Riot: 30 Thanksgiving Books for the Little Ones in Your Life 21 Fall Book Crafts for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Beyond Foodie Books to Pair with Holiday Meal Prep

If you’re single… Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë All you care about right now is your own well-being. You know there’s someone right for you just around the corner, or you simply just not that worried about that. Therefore, you need a leading female character to remind you that you’re also strong and determined, and nothing’s impossible when you put your mind to it. Jane Eyre is a fair choice....

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TBR is Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes. Been dreaming of a “Stitch Fix for books?” Now it’s here! Tell TBR about your reading preferences and what you’re looking for, and sit back while your Bibliologist handpicks recommendations just for you. TBR offers plans to receive hardcover books in the mail or recommendations by email, so there’s an option for every budget. TBR is also available as a gift to give to the readers in your life!...

at Autostraddle: Eight Trans-Inclusive Fantasy Books for Harry Potter Fans at Brightly: 11 Legitimately Funny Books to Read Aloud with Your Kids at Bustle: 13 Witchy Books To Read With Your Coven This Fall at BuzzFeed: 20 Disturbing Nonfiction Books You Won’t Be Able To Put Down — Even If You Want To at Crime Reads: The Unlikely Detectives: Unlicensed, Unqualified, and Fully Invested at Electric Lit: 7 Books About the Making and Unmaking of Women Politicians at Epic Reads: 24 Young Adult Mystery Books That Will Keep You Guessing Until the Very End at Nerdist: Getting to Know the Radical Romance of Jasmine Guillory at POPSUGAR: These 17 Books Will Give You the Same Romantic Thriller Vibes as Rebecca at Riveted Lit: Books to Read if You Love The Craft at Shondaland: The Five Best Books for October at Tor....

I have taught my students how to critically read and analyze graphic novels, and how to incorporate unique elements and devices to tell their own compelling stories in graphic form, so I was particularly excited to check out New Kid for its potential as a classroom mentor text. And, having been witness to the experiences of students like Jordan as a classroom teacher, I imagined that reading New Kid would open students’ eyes to the possibilities of stories they could narrate in graphic form....

Bryson’s books can be categorised into four broad categories: travel, history, language, and science. If you haven’t read any of his books and are looking for recommendations on which ones to read, this is my suggestion: all of them (a list of his books can be found here). If you are after a perhaps slightly more helpful suggestion, well…okay. Travel I still think of Bill Bryson as primarily a travel writer, despite almost half of his published works being of the non-travel variety (especially the more recent books)....

Her young adult Daughter of Smoke & Bone series is celebrating its ten-year anniversary now, so what better way to celebrate than by introducing yourself to Laini’s tales? When recently asked how she feels about the novels celebrating an anniversary, Laini Taylor said: “The publishing journey with this trilogy…has been extraordinary, and has lived up to and exceeded all my wildest writerly dreams, with the many wonderful forms that reader engagement has taken, and the opportunities I’ve gotten to travel and meet fans around the country and the world....

Just how does a treasure end up “lost,” anyway? As these books show, it isn’t all about buried chests or weird holes in the ground. Most lost treasures were victims of the elements — an ill-timed storm, perhaps, or the inevitable ravages of time — or the whims of greedy humans who thought they had the right to take what they wanted from others. In the latter case, a “lost” treasure may not be entirely lost, just inaccessible to the rightful owners....

Why do some fictional worlds grab our attention in this way, while others never gain the same level of engagement? In many cases, it can just be a matter of luck and timing (I will always hold that the world of Jill Murphy’s The Worst Witch series was years ahead of its time, and in a parallel universe, Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches has its deserved place as everyone’s go-to magical school)....

I attended writing workshops with Emergence Magazine listening to writers worldwide read aloud from prompts and memoirist. From the comfort of my desk chair (which I now have overpriced cushions for), I watched nature writer Robert Macfarlane, poet Ross Gay, and my former teacher John Calderazzo read from their work. Events happened across oceans and mountains, often taking place thousands of miles away from my studio apartment. I even dragged a class full of students to a conversation between Eula Biss and Claudia Rankine at the Chicago Humanity Festival....

Show us your backlist! Submit a photo of your Toni Morrison collection–the more creative, the better–and enter to win a signed, first edition of Home, provided by Random House. Submission details and deadline to be announced Monday, May 7. Get your shop on. If you’re gonna take the day off to read, you’ve gotta have the book, right? When you send us a photo of yourself with your new copy of Home, you’ll be entered to win one of three full sets of Morrison’s fiction backlist in paperback, also from Random House....

All That Is by James Salter It has been more than 30 years since Salter last published a novel. He’s granite. He’s damp skin. He’s an unflinching eye. I don’t know anything about the gestation of this novel, and in a way I’m glad because it nearly doesn’t feel like fiction. It feels like a life: the trajectory, in some ways enviable, of Philip Bowman, a young WWII soldier who becomes a New York book editor....

ISTJ (Introversion + Sensing + Thinking + Judging): The Logistician Personality The Vow by Kim Carpenter, Krickitt Carpenter, John R. Perry ISTJs need pragmatism in their lives. They take their tasks very seriously and inevitably roll their eyes at clichés or any other thing that is not facts or figures. The Vow is a nonfiction book about two married people who had to start their lives all over again. After a car accident, Krickitt has a massive head injury that puts her in a coma for two months....

I appreciate it so much, in fact, that I decided to outline some of the most common tropes that superhero-themed songs (as opposed to superhero theme songs, which is what we’ll talk about first) fall into. This isn’t meant to be a comprehensive list, but rather a brief introduction to the topic based on my personal observations. Like with many superhero-related things, this topic is pretty homogeneous: most of the artists and the heroes they choose to sing about are white men....

Muns first took her complaint to administrators, who found that Farah had not broken any regulations and found no reason to discipline her. The school board, though, went against this decision, voting 3-2 to reprimand her. One of the board members to vote against this decision said, Teachers were, in fact, worried. Soon after, teachers in the district were told to close off their classroom libraries until each of the books could be vetted to ensure that none could offend a parent....

How to build my confidence? How to overcome impostor syndrome? Sign me up. Most of the time as I read these books, I find myself thinking the book could be a TED Talk or an article. But in thinking that, I’m able to also acknowledge that I’m not — nor have I ever been — the actual audience for these books. I’m instead an interloper, someone toward whom the writers and publishers of these books doesn’t target them, despite being an avid reader of the category....