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Read Harder 2026 Halfway Check-In Survey

Love in Bloom: Romances for Plant and Garden Lovers

Fantastic, Middle Grade Books about Dragons

Eccentric Investigators: Unlikely Detectives in Asian American and Asian Cozy Mysteries

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 28, 2026

The Book News We Covered This Week

Barnes & Noble’s Buzziest Books to Look for This Fall

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 27, 2026

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 26, 2026

Essential American Literature, According to PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

The Best Debut Novel of 2026

“Won’t Someone Think of the Children?”–Youth Library Cards and Privacy Q+A: Book Censorship News, June 26, 2026

The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week

New Horror Books Creeping On To Your Shelves in July 2026

Libraries Tackle Ebook Pricing, and More Updates

How Did Our Heroes Spend America’s Bicentennial?

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 25, 2026

Smells Like Queer Literary Spirit

📚 The damage is done

The Must-Watch SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Trailer

Watch the New Trailer for SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

Commonwealth Foundation Clears Writers Accused of Using AI

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

650+ New Queer Books Out in 2026 (So Far)

It’s Later Than You Think: 5 Excellent Near-Future Sci-Fi Novels

Books by Latine Authors to Preorder Now (and Other Ways to Support Books and Authors)

LeVar Burton, Mychal Threets, and Obama Walk Into a Library

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 24, 2026

Historical Fiction Set in the Middle East

Pride and Protest: 6 Books About Queer Liberation and Activists

Summer Thrillers For A Reading Escape

Comics to Keep Your Brain From Melting Over the Summer

High Stakes Competitions, A Terrifying Deer, and More New YA Books for June 24, 2026

The Books Colleges Are Choosing for Common Reads in 2026

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 23, 2026

Who Are Public Libraries For in Our Censorship Era?

Gimme, Gimme: My 5 Most Anticipated Fantasy Books of the Summer

New and Delightful Regency Romance Books

The Best BookTok, Bookstagram, and Bookish Newsletter Creators Across the Globe

Manga Brings the Cool Kids to the Library and More Library Updates

🍿 The exception to the slowdown

Books That Will Have You Asking, “Where are the Parents?”

6 of the Best New Books Out June 23, 2026

The Biggest Books of Fall, According to Barnes & Noble

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 22, 2026

Scooby-Doo as a Puppy!

Never Too Late: Queer Romance Novels with Later-in-Life Coming Out Plots

Picture Books Set at the Beach

Fully Paneled: Compelling and Engaging Nonfiction Comics

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 21, 2026

The Book News We Covered This Week

This Summer’s Buzziest Books

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 20, 2026

Reading Makes You More Attractive—and Americans are Doing Less Of It

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 19, 2026

Library Cards–The New Landscape of Public Library Censorship: Book Censorship News, June 19, 2026

The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week

How One Media Company Is Fighting Manga’s Major Piracy Problem

Summer Reading Challenges for Adults Who Still Miss Getting Personal Pan Pizza Prizes

What Is Femgore? An Introduction to the Feminist Horror Subgenre

Here’s the Trailer for SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 18, 2026

The Best Book of the 21st Century So Far?

The Books That Almost Made The “Best of the Century: YA” Cut

Fall in Love with the Baes of Juneteenth

Them’s the Stakes, Kid: Quiet Fantasy Books for Children

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

Best New and Recent Memoirs on Audio

📚 Every good nerd

What’s Trending in LGBTQ+ Content On Wattpad

Do You Want an AI Chatbot in Your Book? Google is Betting On “Yes”

Kazuo Ishiguro Wrote a WWII Spy Novel!

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 17, 2027

Celebrate Pride With 2026 LGBTQ+ Historical Fiction

Queer Chaos: Mystery & Thriller Edition

Nonfiction Books for Caribbean Heritage Month

An Indigenous Murder Mystery, A Psychic Shop, and More New YA Book Releases for June 17, 2026

Happy Ghibli Fest! Read This Graphic Novel If You Love This Studio Ghibli Movie

Scream Again: 6 Horror Retellings of Well-Known Stories

55% of Travelers Said They’d Consider Going Somewhere Because of a Book

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 16, 2026

The Buzziest Book Club Read of 2026 So Far

Step Right Up: The Fantasy Backlist Titles at the Top of My TBR

University of Nebraska Bans Textbook on Human Sexuality, and More Library Updates

Dragon My Heart Around: 8 of the Best New Cozy Fantasy Romance Books

Sadie Sink to Star in A24 THE MARRIAGE PLOT Adaptation and More Book News!

📚 Hollywood’s calling for the movie rights

Join the 500 Billion Page Challenge

6 of the Best New Book Releases Out June 16, 2026

Why I Set My New Novel On a Weed Farm

The Buzziest Summer Reading Books of 2026

Simon & Schuster and The Black List Partner to Get Books Discovered for Adaptation

The Best Books Deals of the Day for June 15, 2026

Read Harder This Pride Month

What are Xianxia Comics? A Primer and Reading Guide

The Best Recent Romances to Read in the Heat

Why Children’s Summer Reading Challenges Are Important

Be Gay, Solve Crimes: 7 Quozy Mystery Books

The Book News We Covered This Week

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 14, 2026