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gingerhaze.bsky.social
Scarlet Morning has been named one of NPR’s Best Books of the Year! AND the New York Public Library! AND Bookriot! AND Amazon! AND a Booklist Editor’s Choice! AND an Indigo Heather’s Pick! My book is good, is what I’m saying, and you should read it
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
anickto.bsky.social
Changing #publishingindustry, #costoflivingcrisis, slow #wagegrowth, and fewer format options, affording #books we love is an issue. R. Nassor gives in-depth view of how things have changed. bookriot.com/were-in-a-bo... Are Too Expensive #BookRiot #reading #bookformats
We're in a Book Affordability Crisis
The death of the mass market paperback means the cheapest book options are now 50% more expensive. Welcome to the book affordability crisis.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
scribnerbooks.bsky.social
Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Time Magazine, BookRiot, and Amazon!

Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy is up for the Goodreads choice award in Memoir! Vote here: https://bit.ly/43Noljo
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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So happy to see @khanwong.bsky.social’s DOWN IN THE SEA OF ANGELS named one of the best books of 2025 by BookRiot! 🎉

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November 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
theladyred.bsky.social
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@bookriot AS BEING AMONG THE VERY BEST OF THE BEST
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
kamielke.bsky.social
briefly mentioned in a BookRiot listicle, can i use this to get an agent
The bottom of the article on BookRiot talking about D&D in YA, under This is How We Roll edited by Rosiee Thor I get a shoutout for Losing Hit Points alongside Real Authors Whitney Gardner and Victoria Koops
November 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
therightsfactory.bsky.social
Big congratulations to #MollyRodenWinter! 💫 Her #memoir #MORE has been featured by #BookRiot in “Altar or Alter: Six Memoirs at the Intersection of Marriage, Divorce, Gender, and Sexuality.”

Read the full feature here: bookriot.com/memoirs-at-t...
November 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
michaeldiaz101.bsky.social
Books should be affordable to everyone...

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#Books #Education #BookRiot #OurGeekThisWeek
The Daily: We’re in a Book Affordability Crisis - Our Geek This Week
We’re in a Book Affordability CrisisBooks should be affordable to everyone, but factors like the increasing price of paper and rising publishing
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November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
finavon.bsky.social
The Most Interesting November Historical Fiction Releases bookriot.com/the-most-int... from @bookriot #historicalfiction #tbr #newbooks
The Most Interesting New November Historical Fiction Releases
From a tortoise who witnesses history to a sapphic Victorian romp, these are the month's best historical releases.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
bookish-notes.bsky.social
same publisher picked up a regency romance and it’ll be interesting how well their promo and book positioning in stores will sell it. they’re promoting it as a histrom for Emily Henry fans and if Carrie Bradshaw wrote a regency romance.

so. they’re throwing things at the ideas wall for sure.
From the Marking Plans tab on Edelweiss for the book The Very Definition of Love by Sophia Benoit: Marketing: • Influencer campaign with focus on historical romance and rom-com creators • Goodreads Campaign from early giveaways to on-sale ads focused on comp titles and romance authors • Consumer preorder campaign featuring book themed merch • Social media campaign featuring fun and engaging video based on book, tropes favorite gossip, and historical rom-com reads • Book club outreach highlighting cross-market appeal • Digital Advertising across TikTok, Meta, Amazon, BookRiot, and Goodreads • Influencer Launch Event in Los Angeles Publicity: • Dedicated media outreach timed to new season of Bridgerton (slated for early 2026) • Print and online features and review pitching to pop culture, entertainment, romance, and general interest media, including those who have covered comp authors such as Ali Hazelwood, Emily Henry, Lyla Sage, Julia Quinn, and Evie Dunmore • National radio and podcast interviews with NPR programs and pop culture and romance podcasts From the Summary tab: A plucky yet innocent wallflower writing a dictionary of bawdy slang arranges her own marriage to the ultimate instructor: the town rake. As sexy as it is witty and as charming as it is irreverent, The Very Definition of Love is Emily Henry for the regency era. 1816-Harriet Bancroft may be on her fifth season with no marriage prospects, but she's fine with that. It gives her more time to write her dictionary of modern slang. Words are her passion, especially the exciting, filthy ones men have kept hidden from women for far too long. While researching late in the library during a party, Harriet accidentally finds herself in a compromising Situation with notorious rake, Lord Alexander. To save her reputation and her younger sisters from ruin, Harriet has no choice but to slightly kidnap Alexander and strong-arm him into an elopement. This arranged marriage has a very particular condition—it will be in-name-only, leaving each of them to follow their own interests. For Harriet that's her work; for Alexander, that's women. But soon Alexander's rakish existence is not nearly as fun as spending time with Harriet, and Harriet's beginning to worry about how much she actually likes her husband. Behind the closed doors of their respectable home, things become a little ... complicated. After all, who better to teach her the very thorough meaning of these indecent words than the renowned lover, Lord Alexander Stirling? Perhaps this marriage will teach them both a little more about that word they've been avoiding-love. If Carrie Bradshaw wrote a Regency romance.... Meet an irresistible new voice in romance: sex and relationships columnist and lifelong romance fan, Sophia Benoit. Tropes: Enemies-to-lovers / Marriage of convenience / There's only one bed / Yearning / A misunderstanding / He teaches her / Regency era / Rake x wallflower Story Locale:Regency Era England From the Key Selling Points: • TIMELESS ROMANCE: While this is set in the Regency era, readers of contemporary romance will also love this voice. It feels like historical Emily Henry. Historical romance readers will love it, but it's also accessible for readers beyond the historical landscape. • IRRESISTIBLE VOICE: This truly feels like what Bridgerton lovers are looking for in the book world. The voice is modern, fresh, and wildly witty. Picture all the glitz of the Regency era with an accessible writing style of a contemporary novel. • PROMOTABLE AUTHOR WITH MEDIA POTENTIAL: Sophia is a sex and relationships columnist who writes for GQ, Bustle, and NPR. She is young, funny, and on-trend. She also has a new podcast on dating and relationships launching with the Ringer in 2025! • THE TROPES READERS LOVE: Fake dating meets marriage of convenience, there's only one bed, grumpy x sunshine, experienced x naive, he teaches her. • HUMOR WITH HEAT: The spice level is sizzling! Sexy and funny at the same time! The rake, Alexander, teaches the endlessly curious Harriet the ways of the bedroom.
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
meganlee.bsky.social
I don’t think they’re on here, but #bookriot has a great podcast called ‘Zero to Well-Read’ & the latest episode is about The Secret History & it’s a JOY
How quickly he fell, how soon it was over #ogdarkacademia
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Introducing the Zero to Well-Read Podcast
Everything you need to know about the books you wish you'd read, from classics to contemporary hits to social media sensations.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
mstevensonbooks.bsky.social
BEHOOVED: adult fantasy rom com with chronic illness rep. It was an Indie Next pick, received critical acclaim from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly, and was a Lit Hub, BookRiot, Goodreads, Audible, and Autostraddle most anticipated book of May 2025. Eligible for novel categories!
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
judyedits.bsky.social
"Book censorship is much more than filtering information; it’s the silencing of voices and the erasure of stories." Excellent story from Bookriot on student activists facing down a book ban.
heykellyjensen.bsky.social kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 25d
Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions.

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Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025
A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
bluesky.awakari.com
The New York Times & New York Public Library’s 2025 Best Illustrated Children’s Books https:// bookriot.com/nyt-nypl-2025-bes t-illustrated-childrens-books/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Book News @ book-news-BookRiot

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November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
elephant-with-pen.bsky.social
Nikki DeMarco wrote an article on BookRiot about the challenges neurodivergent individuals face in maintaining focus to finish books. While I am not sure that the idea of a "real reader" is as prevalent as suggested, the contrast is still a very interesting observation.
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Reading While Neurodivergent: A Librarian’s Guide to Loving Books on Your Own Terms
The model we call “good reading” is neurotypical reading. It assumes a brain that can sustain focus in long, quiet stretches.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
kma500.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy
More on school book bans from Kelly Jensen for BookRiot:

"There are now 19 books prohibited in any Utah public school. Of them, 16 are written by women, and their average publication date is 2011. This means that most of these books have been on shelves and available for many years and caused […]
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October 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
haileypiperfights.bsky.social
Grateful for the mention of my recent queer cosmic horror novel A GAME IN YELLOW in BookRiot article "All the Queer Horror Books I Read During a 24 Hour Readathon" 💛

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All the Queer Horror Books I Read During a 24 Hour Readathon
I spent 24 hours reading queer horror books. Here's what I read and what I thought of them.
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October 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
meerkatpress.bsky.social
#didyouknow @KatheKoja's #TheCipher was on @bookriot's 50 Scariest Books Of All Time list!

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#kathekoja #bookriot #50scariestbooks #scarybooks #halloweenreads #funhole #bookstagram #booktok #horror #horrorclassics
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
mikedmystery.bsky.social
BookRiot has Libby's most popular books from September. Interesting list of newish and...other. I feel like it's a lagging indicator of something.
Libby's 20 Most Popular Books of September
There's a friendship with a giant octopus, a midwife mystery in 1789 Maine, Percival Everett's 2024 multi-award-winning satire, and more.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
suzbrockmann.bsky.social
I'm using this great guide from BookRiot bookriot.com/library-elec... to assist my research, and it includes this important info, and at around 15:15 he mentions parents "having their needs met."
A screenshot from the linked article reads: "Go individual by individual on those sample ballots and look up the candidates. Some may have no web presence at all, which might be a red flag, but most will have at bare minimum a Facebook page. Your local newspaper, if you have one, may have interviews with each of the candidates (and if you're paywalled from this, after you cuss a bit, see if you can access the unpaywalled version via your library). Red flags in candidates for school or library board will include language like "parental rights" or "school choice." Red flags will be clear, too, if you are voting in nonpartisan board elections and you see clear partisanship in the candidate's affiliations or endorsements."
October 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
authorsabb.bsky.social
Research is a skill! Here is a great guide from Bookriot on how to become well informed about your local elections. Maybe the way you help protect the right to read is by taking these skills & making a voting guide or candidate scorecards to distribute to your neighbors.
Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025
Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
pageonem.bsky.social
A HUGE week for our authors! Starting with the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize! 🎉

The news was everywhere: @PublishersWkly, @Kirkus, @washingtonpost, @BookRiot, and more. Scroll for the full list of critical acclaim, interviews, and features they picked up! #DLPP #LiteraryAwards #BookNews
October 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
tguzman.bsky.social
Bookriot and Electric Lit.
October 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
didididit.bsky.social
💙📚🪐 #SFF I loved seeing this in an email today from BookRiot. @bookriot.bsky.social "🚀 Science Fiction leads the market with the fastest sales increases versus prior year. Growth accelerated in early July..." I didn't find much SF last year that I loved so I hope it means lots of new great SF.
October 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
andreasomberg.bsky.social
Happy pub date @franwilde.bsky.social! A Bookbub and BookRiot Must Read, A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES -- Robin Hood meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist -- has hit shelves! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781353...
A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde: 9781645661948 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Robin Hood meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist wrapped in a futuristic fantasy where thieves are entertainment for the...
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September 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM