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Book Riot Launches New Release Index for Mystery & Thriller Fans
Book Riot’s New Release Index is a searchable database that lists upcoming mystery and thriller titles by release date, letting readers filter by genre and save favorites to a personal Watchlist. The tool is bundled with the All Access membership, which costs $6 per month and also unlocks premium articles.
Rachel Hochhauser's memoir "Lady Tremaine" has been announced as the next pick for a high‑profile celebrity book club, curated by influencers Colleen Kehoe Powell and Laura Tremaine. The post emphasizes the club’s reputation for surfacing breakout titles before they hit mainstream bestseller lists. By positioning the selection as the "first to choose" the next hot read, the organizers aim to drive early buzz and pre‑order volume. The announcement also signals a broader trend of influencer‑led literary curation shaping publishing sales pipelines.
Books that aren’t about entrepreneurship that’ve helped me: The Warmth of Other Suns In the early 1900s around six million Southern black Americans migrated up north and out west to California. Even though slavery ended in the 1800s, in the...
Michael Pollan has released "A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness," the product of a four‑year investigation into the nature of consciousness. The book tackles the so‑called hard problem and positions itself at the crossroads of neuroscience, philosophy and spiritual...
Adam Smith’s *The Wealth of Nations* is being re‑examined as a work of English literature, not merely an economic treatise. The Liberty Fund essay highlights Smith’s literary influences—Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison, and Samuel Johnson—and his humanist style that blends moral...
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Frankfurter Buchmesse, Book World Prague and the Moravian Library in Brno, backed by the PPF Foundation, launched the Book‑to‑Screen at KVIFF initiative. The program aims to create a market for film and TV rights...
Renowned visual artists Nadia Lee Cohen and Scarlett Carlos Clarke have launched "Podunk," a collaborative photo‑book that delves into the mythos of America’s forgotten towns. The title borrows from an old slang term for an insignificant, isolated place, setting a...
Stephen Policoff’s new memoir, A Ribbon For Your Hair, chronicles the harrowing loss of his wife to lung cancer and his adopted daughter Anna to the rare Niemann‑Pick type C disease. The narrative intertwines personal grief with the bureaucratic nightmare...
Caroline Bicks, holder of the Stephen E. King Chair at the University of Maine, spent a year examining Stephen King’s personal archives—the first scholarly access ever granted. Her new book, *Monsters in the Archives*, dissects drafts of five early King...
The latest children’s and teens’ roundup spotlights a vibrant mix of picture books and young‑adult novels released this spring. Highlights include Poonam Mistry’s environmentally hopeful "The Bear and the Seed" and Corinne Bailey Rae’s music‑infused "Put Your Records On," both priced...
Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” draws a mixed reaction from a seasoned writer‑reviewer. The prose feels choppy—potentially a translation artifact—and the mystical town setting comes across as oppressive rather than enchanting. Character interactions are flat...
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers released *Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria* on March 17, 2026, a lower‑middle‑grade fantasy aimed at ages 7‑10. Written by L. M. Wilkinson and illustrated by Lavanya Naidu, the 190‑page hardcover retails for $13.99....
Viking Books for Young Readers has released *Goldfinches*, a new hardcover picture book that pairs Pulitzer‑winning poet Mary Oliver’s verse with Caldecott‑honored illustrator Melissa Sweet. Priced at $18.99, the volume adapts Oliver’s poem for children ages 4‑8, using mixed‑media artwork...
Spring’s book‑fair circuit kicked off with a bustling London Book Fair, where U.S. publishers poured unprecedented cash into rights and inventory, favoring solutions‑based nonfiction and escapist fiction. The fair’s optimism foreshadowed a near‑term dollar rally that boosted buying power. Rights...
Han Kang’s novel “We Do Not Part,” translated from Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, captured the National Book Critics Circle’s fiction award, marking only the third time a translated work has won in the prize’s 51‑year history....
State legislators in Florida, Idaho and other states are drafting bills that undermine the Supreme Court's Miller test for obscenity and invoke a stretched government‑speech doctrine to justify book bans in public schools and libraries. Florida's Senate Bill 1692 and...
The Walter siblings’ monthly reading series, Essays, has evolved from a modest backyard gathering in March 2024 to a flagship event at Echo Park’s Hunt Vintage, regularly attracting over 150 attendees. The show emphasizes personal storytelling over punchy jokes, tapping into...
Researchers at MostRecommendedBooks.com compiled public recommendations from hundreds of billionaires and identified the ten titles they cite most often. The list is dominated by works on mental models, leadership, disruptive innovation and big‑picture history, with Ray Dalio’s *Principles* and Yuval...
New Scientist’s Book Club features an opening excerpt from Kim Stanley Robinson’s sci‑fi classic Red Mars, framing humanity’s transition from mythic fascination to actual settlement of the Red Planet. The passage juxtaposes ancient cultural reverence for Mars with modern scientific breakthroughs...
Elizabeth Beller’s biography "Once Upon a Time" offers an intimate portrait of Carolyn Bessette, the late wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., and serves as the foundation for the hit TV series "Love Story." The book, published by Simon &...
Kenan Orhan’s latest novel, “The Renovation,” follows Dilara, a Turkish exile in Italy, whose bathroom remodel morphs into Istanbul’s Silivri Prison. The surreal premise serves as a conduit for exploring exile, political repression, and her father’s Alzheimer’s decline. The Book...
The New York Times Book Review highlights two standout historical‑fiction releases. Devon Jersick’s debut, Luminous Bodies, dramatizes Marie Curie’s scientific triumphs and turbulent love affairs through a bold first‑person voice. Eleanor Shearer’s Fireflies in Winter transports readers to late‑18th‑century Nova...
Patrick Gale’s latest novel "Love Lane" weaves a multigenerational saga that begins with a clandestine same‑sex relationship between two English emigrants in early‑20th‑century Saskatchewan and follows their descendants back to post‑war England. The story is rich in period detail, from...
Richard Holmes’s *The Boundless Deep* argues that mid‑19th‑century scientific breakthroughs shattered Victorian optimism and the Whig belief in linear progress. Lord Kelvin’s heat‑death theory and Darwin’s evolution introduced cosmic entropy and challenged divine creation, fostering a pervasive cultural pessimism. The...
A new Princeton University Press volume, Troubled Lands, finally gathers Langston Hughes’s translations of Mexican and Cuban short fiction he completed in 1934‑35. The anthology, edited by Ricardo Wilson II, showcases stories by Rafael Felipe Muñoz, Nellie Campobello, and others,...
Yann Martel explains how he deliberately reshapes narrative form to serve each story’s purpose, using unconventional structures across his works. He details five examples: a historical‑fact framework in "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios," a two‑column emotional layout in "Self,"...
Rachel Reid’s second installment, *Heated Rivalry*, from the *Game Changers* series, has exploded from a modest Canadian release into a global meme‑driven phenomenon. The novel’s “cottage” setting—an imagined lakeside haven for queer love—has resonated with readers in the US, Canada,...
Finished watching Vladimir on Netflix, and only at end realized Vladimir refers to Nabokov, and that the whole book is some weird take on his Lolita, but coming from the feminine side. Just started reading the book, but Lolita is a...
Kathryn Paige Harden’s new book, Original Sin, blends memoir, history, and behavioral genetics to ask whether DNA predisposes people toward vice and how that shapes blame. Drawing on two decades of research, she shows that genes modestly raise risk for...
Adele Bertei’s memoir offers a gritty, first‑person chronicle of New York’s 1977 no‑wave explosion, tracing her rise from a troubled childhood to the Contortions’ keyboardist. The book captures the era’s creative ferocity, the gender and queer barriers that persisted, and the eventual...
Alexander Hoare, an 11th‑generation partner at the 350‑year‑old private bank C. Hoare & Co, released *Impact Banker*, a memoir that blends business lessons with family‑wealth wisdom. He advises avoiding high‑profile, potentially volatile clients and focusing on long‑term bank health rather than flashy short‑term...
Joel Miller, author of *The Idea Machine*, discusses how books function as a unique, immersive technology that shapes thought far longer than movies or other media. He explains that his Eastern Orthodox faith acts as a moral lens through which...
Marie Benedict’s *Daughter of Egypt* weaves two parallel narratives—1920s England‑Egypt archaeology and the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut in 1473 BC—to spotlight women erased from history. The novel follows Lady Evelyn Herbert, who out‑matches male scholars in deciphering artifacts, and juxtaposes her...
Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, on hope: “Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
Jami Attenberg announced a May 9 Zoom workshop on why writers write, positioning it as a primer for her 1000 Words of Summer program, which runs May 30 through June 12. She also promoted an in‑person event in Atlanta on April 30 with author Matthew...
So far I am enjoying the audiobook of "The Psychology of Money" its always a plus when the narrator is really good.
The challenge of remaining away from the spotlight - and the corrresponding temptation to reenter the arena - is discussed with characteristic insight and candor by @JeffreyPfeffer in at least one of his books about power - all are essential...
Han Kang received the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for her novel “We Do Not Part,” a translation about the Jeju uprising’s trauma. This marks only the third time a translated work has won the fiction prize in...
Congrats to our bestie Pilar Queen, newly made partner at United Talent Agency @unitedtalent —the best agent hands down in Publishing... https://t.co/8CrAHDcCBj
Brendan Colley’s second novel, *The Season for Flying Saucers*, follows the Grey family in present‑day Tasmania after the patriarch’s literal UFO abduction thirteen years earlier. The story uses the alien premise as a metaphor for loss, autonomy and the search...
The March 27, 2026 "Books in Brief" column spotlights four new titles: Asha de Vos’s *Whale* chronicles the dramatic decline of right whales to fewer than 400 individuals; Rahul Rao’s *Nanotechnology* explains carbon nanotubes’ extraordinary strength, flexibility and conductivity, hinting at...
The post reviews Robert Greene’s bestseller *The 48 Laws of Power*, outlining its amoral approach to gaining and preserving influence through historical case studies. It highlights several flagship laws—such as guarding reputation, acting with boldness, creating dependency, and mastering timing—while...
Stacy Hackney’s new cosy mystery, *The Primrose Murder Society*, follows Lila Shaw, a recently divorced mother, and her ten‑year‑old true‑crime fan daughter Bea as they move into the Primrose, a senior‑focused residential hotel in Richmond, Virginia. A $2 million reward for...
Andy Weir, the author of The Martian, Artemis and Project Hail Mary, told PEOPLE he is currently drafting a new standalone science‑fiction novel. The announcement came during an exclusive interview at the New York premiere of Project Hail Mary on...
Marked safe from believing that sapphic relationships “didn’t exist yet” during the Regency period. 🩵🐝💜 Can’t wait for Bridgerton Season 5.
Where are my Chicago peeps who love to read, connect, and discuss books? I would love to invite you out to my author talk @dabookjoint 4/4 in conversation with @ocartman1 dear algo do your thing and connect me with people...
Caroline Golum’s sophomore feature, *Revelations of Divine Love*, dramatizes the 14th‑century mystic Julian of Norwich, the presumed author of the earliest English‑language book by a woman. The film blends handcrafted medieval‑inspired sets with vivid, psychedelic vision sequences that echo both...
Might as well post this thing I wrote 2+ years ago. "It’s become routine for publishers to warn authors that Goodreads is a site meant for readers, not for writers — which is to say, what was intended to be...
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