October 21 – 25, 2024 ‹

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TODAY: In 1922, Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf is published.  “I looked for my novel on the screen. I found the skeleton of it intact. Its revolutionary content was missing.” Sol Yurick, author of The Warriors, remembers searching for a trace of his book on the big screen. | Lit Hub Film Nguyễn Bình on […]


Book Riot’s Most Popular Posts of the Week

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Welcome to The Best of Book Riot, our round-up of what’s on offer across our site, newsletters, podcasts, and social channels. Not everything is for everyone, but there is something for everyone. Here is what readers were most interested in the week that was. Kiss Me, Wait: 5 of the Most Anticipated Romance Novels of […]


Bernardine Evaristo is letting writers crash at her house for free. ‹

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October 25, 2024, 2:25pm Bernardine Evaristo, president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) and author of the polyphonic, Booker-Prize-winning Girl, Woman, Other, is paying it forward. And the “it” in question is some primo Kentish real estate. As part and parcel of the RSL’s newly inaugurated “Scriptorium” awards, Evaristo will be gifting her English cottage […]


GOOD OMENS Series To End with a Final 90-Minute Episode…and No Neil Gaiman

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. ‘Good Omens’ Season 3 to Consist of One 90-Minute Episode, Neil Gaiman Not Involved in Production Season Three […]


“Remembrances”

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One day he came, handed me a little box, and said look, look inside. Oh God, what a husband, I was afraid maybe he was losing it, another day it had been look, open this package, and there were more than half a dozen bras with ruffles. I opened the little box and was practically […]


What Next?: Recent Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

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Susie (she/her) is a queer writer originally from Little Rock, now living in Washington, DC. She is the author of QUEERLY BELOVED and the forthcoming LOOKING FOR A SIGN from Dial Press/Random House. You can find her on Instagram @susiedoom. View All posts by Susie Dumond W. W. Norton Acid rainstorms have transformed New York […]


Watch the first trailer for the upcoming adaptation of Interior Chinatown. ‹

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October 22, 2024, 2:32pm Today Hulu released a trailer for the forthcoming Interior Chinatown, a limited series adapted from Charles Yu’s National Book Award-winning novel of the same name. The show—like the book—will follow Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called “Black and White.” The world unravels around our hero as […]


The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Yen Press, your favorite publisher of Japanese manga, comics, and novels. From the renowned science fiction author Cixin Liu comes a mind-bending comic adaptation of The Three-Body Problem! A series of mysterious suicides leads a detective and group […]


Bob the Drag Queen has written the world’s first Harriet Tubman hip-hop novel. ‹

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October 18, 2024, 1:27pm Bob the Drag Queen has written a book, y’all. And this is not the standard tell-all memoir announcement now standard practice for the cross-over artist with a brand to build. Luckily for the world, the Drag Race winning superstar has written a novel. And one that looks to be, um, delightfully […]


All the News Book Riot Reported This Week

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🏆 The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists 🍿 Watching the New Trailer for Like Water for Chocolate 💘 Taylor Swift is Publishing a Book! 🌈 Amazon Announces the First Color-Screen Kindle Today In Books Newsletter Sign up to Today In Books to receive daily news and miscellany from the world […]