Author: Community

If your TBR keeps growing but your budget refuses to cooperate, you’re not alone—but you don’t have to choose between the two. ThriftBooks has become a go-to for readers who want to stretch every dollar and still fill their shelves with books. With their expansive inventory, everyday low prices, and ReadingRewards program, you can read more and spend less at ThriftBooks. What is ThriftBooks? When ThriftBooks got started in 2003, their operation consisted of a pickup truck of used books stashed in a storage unit that they sold on Amazon. Today, ThriftBooks is the world’s largest online independent used book…

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Tomorrow, Saturday, April 25th, is Independent Bookstore Day, and book lovers across the country are preparing for a day of celebration. Libro.fm has some extra ways to get in on the fun for audiobook lovers, including the chance to win free audiobooks, a sale on bestselling titles, and a sweet offer for new members to get started. Golden Tickets More than 1,500 Golden Tickets—each good for 12 free Libro.fm audiobooks—will be hidden in participating bookstores for customers to find on April 25th.

The Women’s Prize for Fiction was established in 1996 to highlight and celebrate exceptional fiction by women, which was often overlooked in favor of fiction by men. It has since become one of the most influential and popular literary prizes in the English-speaking world. Each year, it awards £30,000 (about $40,511) to “the author of the best full-length novel of the year written in English and published in the UK.” Award-winners also receive the “Bessie,” a bronze statuette designed by the artist Grizel Niven. This year’s shortlist is full of debuts, independently published works, and books by publishers that have…

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. Nigerian Erotica Writers Bypass Morality Police With Women’s-Only WhatsApp Groups Listen, if I know anything about humanity, it’s that where there’s a (horny) will, there’s a way. The latest example of such is shared through one New York Times writer’s experience with being let into a WhatsApp group, called Oum Hairan World, by an erotica author. Erotica written by Muslim women in Northern…

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Every month, there’s a flood of new mystery and thriller books coming out clamoring for a spot on your TBR. But with so many competing for your attention, it’s easy to lose track of the ones you’re most excited about. And often, you just end up hearing about the titles with the biggest marketing budgets.So, how do you keep up with new releases without it spiraling into a part-time job of catalog reviews and spreadsheets? That’s where the New Release Index comes in. The New Release Index is a database of upcoming books, curated by Book Riot. It’s organized by…

Heated Rivalry—a M/M queer and steamy hockey romance adapted from a book of the same name by Rachel Reid—has taken hold of the collective consciousness and not let go. Its season finale garnered 10.6 million US viewers, and its production has even brought talks of republishing a secretly published predecessor written in the ’80s by Don DeLillo. It has also, unsurprisingly, increased interest in other queer sports romances. We asked our partners at Libby to share with us the most popular queer sports romances that have been checked on the app, which we’ve included below. Looking at the list, it…