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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 22, 2022

Today's Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday's Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson for $2.99 Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko for $2.99 Small Gods by Terry Pratchett for $2.99 A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight for $2.99 Sea Witch by Sarah Henning for $1.99 Zodiac by Neal Stephenson for $1.99 Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain for $2.99 I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson for $2.99 Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon for $2.99 Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore...
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J.R.R. Tolkien Estate Releases Rarely-Seen Illustrations From the Author

The estate for J.R.R. Tolkien has released a new website that includes paintings and illustrations from Tolkien not previously available to the public. They can be browsed for free, including paintings, maps, and calligraphy. The website also includes letters, video clips, photographs, and more. The estate explains that maps were an “integral part of Tolkien’s world-building” and that he drew them as he wrote his novels. The maps included range from broad maps of the world to ones with a more narrow focus, like the Shire. Audiences can now view...
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 20, 2022

Today's Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday's Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Hall of Smoke by H.M. Long for $1.99 Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for $1.99 I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson for $2.99 Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen for $2.99 Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon for $2.99 Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore for $2.99 Sunshine by Robin McKinley for $1.99 Rabbits For Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum for $1.99 The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory for $1.99 The Echo...
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 19, 2022

Today's Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday's Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory for $1.99 The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey for $2.99 An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen for $2.99 How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi for $4.99 Legend by Marie Lu for $2.99 That Summer by Jennifer Weiner for $2.99 A Rogue of One's Own by Evie Dunmore for $2.99 Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch for $3.99 All This...
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced

The winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards for the 2021 publishing year were announced on March 17th in a virtual ceremony. The National Book Critics Circle consists of nearly 800 members and was established in 1974 in New York with the goal to honor outstanding writing and foster “… a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature.” The distinguished award is the only in the United States with a deciding committee made of book critics. Awards are granted in six categories to books published in English in the...
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 17, 2022

ThriftBooksToday's edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Thriftbooks. Discover your next favorite read among TikTok Favorites on ThriftBooks! Today's Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday's Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Hold Still by Nina LaCour for $2.99 On the Come Up by Angie Thomas for $1.99 Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee for $1.99 Eloquent Rage by Brittney C. Cooper for $2.99 Diary of a Drag Queen by Crystal Rasmussen for $2.99 The Tiger Came to the Mountains by Silvia-Moreno Garcia for $0.99 One Life by Megan Rapinoe...
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Netflix Releases HEARTSTOPPER Trailer

Originally a webcomic, the Heartstopper graphic novels by Alice Oseman have been a huge success, including having a strong TikTok fanbase. They’ve has been adapted into an eight part Netflix series starring Joe Locke as Charlie and Kit Connor as his love interest, Nick. The trailer promises an adorable and awkward love story between the two, with Netflix describing it as “chock-full of bedroom dancing, awkward flirting, rugby shenanigans and a whole lot of yearning.” The series drops on Netflix April 18th. The graphic novel series is still ongoing, with...
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Let’s Talk Ms. Marvel: New Trailer and More

The first trailer for the new Ms. Marvel Disney+ show dropped today, and it looks to be epic. The show stars Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan, the eponymous superhero, who gains stretching powers and becomes Jersey City’s newest hero. And based on how well Disney+ has done with their streaming series so far, from WandaVision to Hawkeye, I’m pretty confident Ms. Marvel is going to be another home run. Who is Ms. Marvel? The title of Ms. Marvel has belonged to a number of superheroes throughout the years, most notably...
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 14, 2022

Today's Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday's Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals The Golden Cage by Camilla Läckberg for $1.99 The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls for $2.99 What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo for $2.99 Anna K Away by Jenny Lee for $2.99 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong for $1.99 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson for $2.99 K-pop Confidential by Stephan Lee for $1.99 The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin for $2.99 The 2000s Made Me Gay by Grace Perry for $2.99 Behold The...
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Assistant Principal Fired After Reading Kids a Silly Book

Despite the fact Captain Underpants and similarly funny books remain perennially popular with young readers, a Mississippi educator was fired this week for selecting a humorous, age-appropriate book to read to second graders. Toby Price, an assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in Byram, Mississippi–just outside Jackson–was asked to set up a class via Zoom. When his boss, the principal, didn’t show up to the class as was planned, Price was told to read them a book. He picked I Need a New Butt by Dawn McMillan. The book,...
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 10, 2022

Today's Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday's Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Unmentionable by Therese Oneill for $3.99 Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall for $2.99 A Spindle Splintered by Alix Harrow for $2.99 The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory for $1.99 From Scratch by Tembi Locke for $2.99 How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams for $1.99 Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang for $1.99 Black Flags, Blue Waters by Eric Jay Dolin for $2.99 The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict for $1.99 You're Not Listening by...
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 9, 2022

Today's Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday's Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict for $1.99 You're Not Listening by Kate Murphy for $2.99 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (translator) for $1.99 In the Country We Love by Diane Guerrero for $2.99 Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera for $2.99 A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers for $2.99 All About Love by bell hooks for $2.99 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel for $2.99 Love in Color by...
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Audie Awards Announces 2022 Winners, Among Them Barack Obama and Lin-Manuel Miranda

The winners for the 2022’s annual Audie Awards were announced March 4th by the Audio Publishers Association. Actor and author Kal Penn hosted the 27th Audie gala, which you can watch here. The awards set out to recognize exceptional audiobook and spoken word performances, and count a variety of performers— from politicians to actors— among their 25 award winners. This year’s winners included Barack Obama for the Narration by the Author award and Lin-Manuel Miranda for the Best Male Narrator Award. Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish of Outlander fame also...
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 6, 2022

Today's Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday's Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney for $1.99 The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid for $1.99 Interpreter Of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri for $1.99 Hold Still by Nina LaCour for $1.99 Sistersong by Lucy Holland for $1.99 Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay for $1.99 The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa, trans. by Louise Heal Kawai for $1.99 Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters” by Kim...
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