Jeff and Rebecca consider a loaded roster of June books to pick the It Book of the month.
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Deals Deals Deals for May 2025 [Teaser]
Time again to look at interesting, lucrative, exciting, strange, or otherwise notable book deal announcements. Always a good time.
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Power Ranking the Books of 2005
Jeff and Rebecca look back a couple of decades to power-rank the books of 2005.
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The Latest BookTok Conspiracy, What the Library of Congress Actually Does, and More Book News
Book Riot's managing editor Vanessa Diaz joins Rebecca for a conversation about the latest romantasy BookTok conspiracy, what's going on with the Trump administration firing the Librarian of Congress, the NYT's best books of the year so far, recent reading, and more.
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Trump administration abruptly fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
What is the Library of Congress, and What Does the Librarian of Congress Do?
Firing comes on the heals of major report about AI and copyright
Trump names his former defense attorney as acting Librarian of Congress
Massive victory in lawsuit against Trump’s dismantling of IMLS
The NYT’s best books of the year so far
Romantasy BookTok’s latest conspiracy
Edinburgh-based tour company to replace Harry Potter tours w/ LGBTQ+ history walks for Pride Month
The Dry Season by Melissa Febos
So Many Stars by Caro de Robertis
Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin
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The 2025 Book Riot Fantasy League Book Draft
Jeff and Rebecca are joined by Sharifah Williams and Prof. Laura McGrath to conduct the first ever Book Riot fantasy book draft. We explain the rules, talk about strategy, and then engage in some fairly chaotic literary team building.
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