Author: Rebecca Joines Schinsky

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. Here are the biggest headlines from last week. The Surprising OG of Hockey Smut Heated Rivalry is a gift that keeps on giving for so many reasons, and the endless side-quests for content creators are not least among them. There’s something validating about realizing that not even The Gray Lady is immune to the gravitational pull of hockey smut’s big pop culture moment. To…

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. 📌 Book Riot is hiring a digital content specialist. If you love books and have video editing skills and demonstrated experience growing and managing social platforms, we’d love to hear from you. The Indies Choice Book Awards Are Back The American Booksellers Association has revived the Indies Choice Book Awards, last seen at BookExpo in 2019, to “celebrate the best Adult Fiction, Adult…

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. Obsessed with Audiobooks? Win 12 Credits to Libro.fm and upgrade your 2026 commute! To Read: January’s Best New Mysteries Maybe it’s the long, dark nights, but there’s just something about winter that makes it the best season for reading mysteries, IMHO. The New York Times rounds up four of the month’s best new mysteries, in which “evil lurks in unexpected places.” Here are…

Welcome to your weekend edition of Today in Books. Grab your coffee and catch up on all the must-read books of January. The It Books of January [Book Riot Podcast] The January 2026 Indie Next List 25 Books Coming in January [New York Times] Books Books of January 2026, as chosen by Amazon editors 10 Books to Read in January [L.A. Times] 20 Books to Read in January [Kirkus] Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of January 12 Must-Read Books of January [Chicago Review of Books] 6 Noteworthy Books of January [Washington Post] All the Big Book Club Picks of January…

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. How Would You Describe Your Year in Reading? I’ve missed The Millions as they’ve been on hiatus this year, so I’m delighted to see their annual Year in Reading tradition continue, even if in abbreviated form. If you don’t find something new to read among the highlights from 18 contributors, I don’t know what to do for you. In a year defined by…

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. 5 Things to Read Today As the publishing industry prepares to close for the rest of the year, the news cycle and my inbox are colder than Ebenezer Scrooge’s office. Here’s a snack-sized sampler of bookish content for the day. What If Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction?: Vauhini Vara, whose book Searches recounts her experiment writing about AI in collaboration with AI, explores an existential question. Why Romance Fiction is Booming: The Guardian‘s Ella Risbridger delves into one of the book…

Today in Books Let the Best of 2025 come to you. Rebecca Joines Schinsky Nov 30, 2025 This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Grab your coffee, settle into Sunday, and let the lists come to you. Here’s a holiday buffet of Best Books round-ups.

Welcome to your Saturday edition of Today in Books. Here’s the highlight reel from the week that was. The Biggest Best-Of-2025 List Has Landed NPR’s annual “Books We Love” feature is the antithesis of the hyper-curated top-ten. “More is more” readers, rejoice: the crew at NPR—hosts, producers, editors, everybody—has rounded up more than 380 books to celebrate. The gloriously massive list is filterable by all the usual genres, along with gift-assistance categories (art lovers, history lovers, etc), staff picks, book club recommendations, options for readers who prefer the “rather long” or “rather short” read, and, my favorite, “seriously great writing.”…

It has become my Thanksgiving custom to revisit this lovely piece of Jeff’s, originally from 2014. I hope it will give you pause to reflect on the gifts of reading in your own life. There’s a lot I love about reading. Here are a few things for which I am especially grateful: deckled edges finishing a book just as the train pulls into the station seeing someone reading a favorite book in public a good beginning a better ending a mysterious, wistful inscription in a used book re-reading a favorite and still agreeing with the notes you made in the…

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. The Biggest Best-Of-2025 List Has Landed NPR’s annual “Books We Love” feature is the antithesis of the hyper-curated top-ten. “More is more” readers, rejoice: the crew at NPR—hosts, producers, editors, everybody—has rounded up more than 380 books to celebrate. The gloriously massive list is filterable by all the usual genres, along with gift-assistance categories (art lovers, history lovers, etc), staff picks, book club…