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The groundbreaking thriller that Courtney Summers calls “gripping and unforgettable” centers on Daunis, a biracial unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal who’s never quite fit in. After Daunis witnesses a shocking murder that thrusts her into a criminal investigation, she agrees to go undercover with the FBI. But the deceptions—and deaths—keep piling up and soon the threat strikes too close to home. How far will she go to protect her community if it means tearing apart the only world she’s ever known?...

Book Riot is teaming up with Penguin Random House Audio to give away an audiobook bundle to one lucky winner! This bundle includes the following titles: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead, The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki, Monster in the Middle by Tiphanie Yanique, and Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout. To enter, simply fill out the form and subscribe to the Penguin Random House Audio newsletter for a chance to win!...

DonorsChoose is a powerful non-profit program that allows teachers to request funds for classroom needs. Anyone who has ever known a teacher knows that the budgets they receive from schools is small, and so many put a significant part of their insignificant salaries right back into their students. DonorsChoose gives teachers a platform to ask for money, and the organization acts as intermediary in acquiring and sending those items to the teachers....

“Caveman” as a term is a little too broad to be helpful. I’m sure you can picture one if I asked you to: a hunched, hirsute, humanoid figure who wears fur, wields a club, and sells car insurance. We now know this depiction may be inaccurate and is based on outdated reconstructions of Neanderthal skeletons, though there is certainly still plenty of debate on the topic. In any case, it’s an image that continues to resonate, including in comic books....

While it makes sense that these heroes would want to keep their real names out of the papers (in theory, anyway: in practice, their stated purpose of protecting their loved ones never seems to pan out), the lengths they were willing to go to protect themselves are astounding and frankly a little creepy. So if you’re looking for some, uh, “creative” ways to hide your secret true identity from the world, here are a few ideas....

Allow me to regale you with some useless facts about blankets. First, did you know that our modern blankets were pioneered by Thomas Blanquette? Blanquette was a Flemish weaver who lived in England in the 14th century. (Of course, humans had covered themselves with skins and other fabrics throughout human history.) Allegedly, Shakespeare is the first person to use ‘blanket’ as a verb; the word appeared as such in King Lear....

The House in the Cerulean Sea left me speechless. I wish I could tell you how much I love it, but there are no words. This book is about Linus Baker, a caseworker who goes to government-sanctioned orphanages to oversee the well-being of the children. His life isn’t that exciting, so when the big bosses assign him a classified job, he takes that chance to see the world. These books like The House in the Cerulean Sea share similar themes: I really think all of these feel-good books fit some way or another with The House in the Cerulean Sea....

10 Amazing Queer Retellings You Need to Read Watch out for Darling by K. Ancrum (a Peter Pan retelling), and Where the Rhythm Takes You by Sarah Dass (a Persuasion retelling). Two promising retellings that come out in summer 2021! CW: suicide Violet comes from a family of wrecks. Her ancestors survived a shipwreck and established a small town in Maine. Now Violet’s life is a wreck; she parties too hard and her brother tried to take his own life....

I’ll be honest: I have not traditionally been much of a mystery reader. I read Gone Girl during its heyday and have enjoyed a few others like The Guest List and the delightful Flavia de Luce children’s series, sure, but it’s not one of my go-to genres. Knives Out got me to thinking about funny murder mysteries, though, and I learned about the cozy mystery genre, and I realized there might be something to this that I had been missing....

“In his 1919 paper on the uncanny, Freud reckoned ‘the frightening element is something that has been repressed and now returns’. As a nation whose traumatic past is still coming to light – through victims’ previously untold stories or even the discovery of their unburied bones – it is safe to say Ireland remains a haunted place. The landscape isn’t short on haunted vibes, either – between the ravaged fields and the dilapidated houses; the bogs bloated fat with the mulch of history....

Once you’ve browsed through, you can find recommendations for the best gaming gear for D&D. Or if you’re new to the game and interested in learning more, learn about the books you’ll need (or are at least helpful to have around) for playing D&D. Looking to start up a new group? Use these tips for starting a Dungeons & Dragons club at your local library. The very first time I played D&D was at a library club, and I recommend it for beginners and more experienced players alike....

Let me be clear: if you don’t read poetry and don’t want to, that’s fine! I don’t think it has to be for everyone. But I also think there are a lot of people out there who are open to the idea but just haven’t begun yet. If it’s crossed your mind that you might like reading poetry, but you need a little encouragement to begin, this post is for you....

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From books like 2021’s adorable The Love Hypothesis to anything that the amazing writing duo Christina Lauren whips up, like their amazing and touching The Soulmate Equation, I myself found some sort of way of digging into these stories when I needed a pick-me-up, a smile or even just a tale full of heart and realistic elements, all while adding the elements of a romcom to the mix. Now, in the start of 2022, there are some promising books being released that will surely bring a pep to your step and a leave a positive note in your day when it comes to new adult romances....

World War II has been a popular topic in books for decades. Historians and novelists alike started writing about the people and places shortly after the United States entered the war (just like all those movies), and haven’t really let up, even as the U.S. entered more and more conflicts and brought us into an era of constant war — even if we’re not technically calling it World War Three....

But looking past Stieg Laarson, what Swedish books available in English translation should you read? Please don’t assume that all Swedish literature is cold crime investigation and psychological thrillers — you should know that childhood classic Pippi Longstocking, about the antics of a wild, strong, mischievous red-pigtailed girl, came from Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, translated by Florence Lamborn. So in order to give you this list of grim dystopias and creative speculative fiction, of stark realist literary fiction and emotional contemporary literature, I drew from a variety of genres and authors....

You can’t NOT love Southern food. I don’t care where you’re from or what you grew up eating; if you pretend you can resist the butter- and meat-decked beans and greens, the fried vegetables of every variety, the Cajun spices and meaty, rich soups, the BBQed bits dripping with sauces and love: I’m calling nonsense. When I crave my occasional home now (far away, where no one seems to appreciate okra properly), it’s for the friendships I maintain in the South, my distant spiritual community, and, yes, dishes like fried green tomatoes....

Tarot cards began their lives akin to playing cards, and few historical decks still remain. Many were hand painted, and it was through the development of the printing press that they were able to be mass produced. Somewhere in the late 1700s, the first tarot deck was produced for the purposes of divination (AKA using the cards intuitively to find meaning). Tarot cards today have the same setup as did those early decks....

Those are my most anticipated queer women, bisexual, and lesbian books coming out in early 2021. Did I miss any books you’re looking forward to? Want more queer book recommendations from Book Riot? Check out these audiobook memoirs by bi+ women of color, these awesome 2020 LGBTQ fantasy or science fiction titles, or these LGBTQ history books.

“Whether you’re a horror fanatic or a hardened skeptic, it’s hard to resist a good fright fest—and it turns out you don’t have to go very far to find one. The U.S. was built on a pretty macabre foundation and is home to hundreds of the most chilling places on Earth. We picked a dozen destinations that will give you goosebumps, from demonic dungeons and mansions of murder to haunted hotels and a forest believed to be inhabited by the devil himself....