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Organize Against Censorship and for Strong Schools with H.E.A.L. Together

H.E.A.L. Together (Honest Education Action & Leadership) is an event organized by Race Forward to “bring together a multiracial movement of students, parents, and educators to demand honest, accurate, and fully funded public education — not book bans, censorship, and whitewashing of history.” The guests are Congressman Jamaal Bowman, Emmy-winning social justice storyteller Sarah Eagle Heart, President of Race Forward Glenn Harris, and President of The National Education Association Becky Pringle. The event discusses how the increase in book bans and challenges, as well as opposition to “Critical Race Theory,” is...
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 27, 2022

Today's Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday's Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram for $2.99 The Wife by Alafair Burke for $2.99 The Royal We by Heather Cocks, Jessica Morgan for $2.99 See Jane Snap by Bethany Crandell for $1.99 Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin for $2.99 How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow for $1.99 Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie for $2.99 Out of Character by Annabeth Albert for $1.99 Florida...
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 26, 2022

Today's Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday's Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Florida by Lauren Groff for $2.99 Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams for $1.99 More Happy That Not by Adam Silvera for $2.99 The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren for $1.99 Carefree Black Girls by Zeba Blay for $2.99 The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery for $2.99 A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark for $1.99 Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson for $2.99 The Turnout by Megan Abbott for $1.99...
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is Being Made Into a Netflix Movie

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid was published in 2018, but it has found new popularity through word of mouth and on TikTok, driving it to 54 weeks on the New York Times Paperback Bestseller list. It’s the story of Evelyn Hugo, an aging movie star who has tapped Monique Grant, a fairly unknown journalist, to write her memoirs. Evelyn is almost as famous for her tumultuous love life and string of ex-husbands as she is for her acting, and throughout the novel, two questions keep recurring: who...
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 24, 2022

Today's Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday's Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo for $2.99 Prince Charming by Rachel Hawkins for $2.99 Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials by Ovidia Yu for $1.99 He Started It by Samantha Downing for $1.99 Transgender History, 2nd ed. by Susan Stryker for 3.99 All the Feels by Olivia Dade for $2.99 Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote for $4.99 She Come By It Natural by Sarah Smarsh for...
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 23, 2022

Today's Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday's Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals All the Feels by Olivia Dade for $2.99 Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote for $4.99 She Come By It Natural by Sarah Smarsh for $1.99 Love in Color by Bolu Babalola for $1.99 This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron for $3.99 The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova for $3.99 Dear Justyce by Nic Stone for $2.99 The Good Lord Bird by James McBride for $1.99 Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko...
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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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