BOOK RIOT

Seemingly out of nowhere, a bill drafted last January–House Resolution 2616 (HR 2616)–has not only been revived, but it’s also swiftly made its way to the United States House floor and passed in a vote of 217 to 198, with 15 abstentions. Eight Democrats crossed the aisle to align with their Republican colleagues, supporting a bill that would revoke students’ ...

As usual with bestseller lists, the weeks close to each other resemble each other, though there are some key differences. For one, Caro Claire Burke’s tradwife thriller

Hello, mammals! Let’s talk about talking animals. They’re always a big hit, but they seem to be having a big moment in popular culture right now. There’s a new film adaptation of George Orwell’s

If you like romance novels and audiobooks, you probably have your favorite voices–the ones that move you emotionally, that carry you along in the story, and, for some, that turn you on just the right way. We all know narrator preference is incredibly subjective, based on all the different synapses shooting off in your head any time of day. So this list is going to be complete...

Maybe we’ll see a colossal change when fall rolls around, or maybe we’ll need to accept that 2026 is not the year where YA nonfiction thrives. While it is likely I’ve missed a title or two in my thorough searching of publisher catalogs, there appear to be virtually no new works of YA nonfiction published by major or large publishers for May. There is one work of comic nonfict...