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Every month, Our Queerest Shelves has a roundup of the best queer books out that month. Now that we’re halfway through the year, I’ve combined all of those picks into a collection: The Best Queer Books Out in 2026. There are currently just over 100 books on the list, and I will be updating it

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Every month, Book Riot does a round-up of the most exciting new sci-fi and fantasy releases of the year. But let’s be honest, science fiction is often drowned out by fantasy in the SFF space. So, we’ve gone through all those new releases round-ups to highlight just the science fiction titles in this collection: The

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Book censorship and attacks on LGBTQ+ people from the right have been nonstop since 2021. Thanks to far-right social media that thrives off picking a victim of the day and going all in on harassment and stochastic terrorism, as well as legislators who spend more time thinking about what’s happening in the underpants of children

Rebecca Yarros has announced the fourth addition to the mega-bestselling Empyrean series on Instagram. The book is titled Threshing Day and will be available on September 29th this year. Threshing Day is a little different from the other books in the series, though. It is not a sequel to the third book, Onyx Storm. Instead,

One of the great pleasures of being human is finding out what things bring us joy, and the pursuit of those things. For instance, perhaps you love to read, but you haven’t picked up anything in the science fiction or fantasy genres yet. If that’s the case—welcome! Come on in, the water’s fine. For readers

The Odyssey opens in theaters tomorrow, and the reviews of Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation are almost as rosy as the fingers of Homer’s beloved dawn. Here’s a look at the reviews: A genuinely grand, gutsy vision, “The Odyssey” thrills generously for the bulk of its near three-hour running time: Every few minutes, it seems, it

There are currently three bills in Congress that would permit widespread book censorship nationwide. All three originated from the House of Representatives. They are as follows: HR 7661, also known as the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act.” This would modify the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 by prohibiting the use of funds

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It is an especially challenging time to work in libraries. The needs continue to grow; the budgets are flat, if not shrinking; and the assault by outside parties to destabilize and defund the institutions continues. Library workers are finding their mental health impacted, even–and sometimes especially!–if they love the job dearly. Though it might not

What goes into creating a Literary Activism story? A lot of time, energy, and effort. Not every story about book censorship or library challenges makes the weekly link roundup cut, as each story is vetted for as much context and insight as possible. For news stories that are reported, time and energy goes into doing

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At the midpoint of the year, we here at Book Riot like to review the many (many, many) great new titles we’ve read so far and determine which ones are the absolute best. It’s not easy narrowing that list down to a few choice representatives, but as you’ll see below, we’ve managed to select five

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A couple weeks ago, I shared a list of 650+ new queer books out in the first half of 2026. Now, I’m back with a spreadsheet of 250+ queer books coming out in the second half of the year. You might notice that those are pretty different numbers, and that’s because I usually learn about

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