Goodreads has announced its list of the top 36 most popular historical fiction books of 2022 (so far), according to users' interest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-07-11 14:45:32 UTC ]
The best nonfiction book deals in cooking, lifestyle, and more, all hand picked by Book Riot. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-07-08 16:52:56 UTC ]
Yep, as the guy in your MFA already knows, turns out reading literary fiction is better for you than reading other kinds of fiction—especially if you grew up doing it. In a new paper published this week in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, scholars Nicholas Buttrick, Erin C.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-07-08 16:16:52 UTC ]
Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing—has just become, at 45, the youngest ever winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. The prize, which was established in 2008 as a lifetime achievement award, honors “an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-07-01 17:08:35 UTC ]
When it comes to writing historical fiction, one author finds that it’s the very human details that resonate with the reader. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2022-07-01 15:38:42 UTC ]
The best nonfiction book deals in cooking, lifestyle, and more, all hand picked by Book Riot. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-06-24 10:39:00 UTC ]
From a look at fonts to mental illness and understanding sexuality, these nonfiction manga titles are must-reads. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-06-24 10:35:00 UTC ]
Mat Johnson’s latest book delivers a biting satire of American politics and class issues — from the vantage point of outer space. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-06-22 13:00:32 UTC ]
Kathryn Harlan, author of the new story collection 'Fruiting Bodies,' picks 10 books that represent fabulism at its best. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
This year, a Neon Hemlock Press novella won a Nebula. But what is this publisher, where did it come from, and what does it put out? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-06-21 10:36:00 UTC ]
New and upcoming books by Rhys Bowen, Kate Forsyth and others imagine the heroic efforts of everyday people during World War II Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-06-20 14:33:02 UTC ]
Forefront Books and the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives are teaming up to form Frederick Douglass Books, a publishing imprint meant to “establish a pathway for Black and Brown authors” into the publishing industry, the two organizations announced in a press release last week. The imprint... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-06-16 13:04:40 UTC ]
Ruth Ozeki has won the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel 'The Book of Form and Emptiness' (Penguin), which comes with a £30,000 ($36,500) cash award. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
These hidden gems are all great works of imagination set near and far that you need to add to your TBR ASAP. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-06-15 10:36:00 UTC ]
A recent report from NPD BookScan found that U.S. print book sales of LGBTQ fiction reached nearly 5 million units in 2021, doubling 2020 sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Two previously unseen short stories by Jackson, rated by Stephen King as one of the great horror fiction writers, are to appear in US magazine the StrandTwo previously unpublished short stories by Shirley Jackson, the queen of gothic fiction, have been released.Charlie Roberts and Only Stand and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-06-09 14:05:30 UTC ]
Do you want a historical fiction book club but you don't know where to start? Read inside for some tips and ideas. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-06-08 10:33:00 UTC ]
In 2014, book critic Dwight Garner published a lament in the New York Times for a seemingly forgotten literary masterpiece, the oral history All God’s Dangers. Published in 1974 by then-Harvard doctoral candidate Theodore Rosengarten, the autobiography was narrated by Nate Shaw, an illiterate... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-06-06 08:51:52 UTC ]
These novels remind us that people have made horrible mistakes since the beginning of time. (They also contain love, joy and triumph!) Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-05-27 20:30:21 UTC ]
Rethinking old myths and accepted narratives comes with risks, but the results can be thrilling. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-05-27 20:30:15 UTC ]