There's a fresh episode of Hey YA today. @erica-eze.bsky.social and I talk about some of the most exciting new young adult books hitting shelves in the month of August: bookriot.com/listen/new-y...

Just got this. So excited to start it 🙂‍↕️

Did you know that since 2024, the AALBC has kept a monthly list of the bestselling books by Black authors? April's list includes James, Happy Land, and Seven Days in June. #BlackBookSky #BookSky #BlackSky #PublishingWatch

This is the future of book recommendations when libraries are defunded and dismantled. Trained professionals are removed in exchange for this made up, inaccurate garbage. Are you fighting yet?

Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

Excited for this new series I spearheaded that looks at how resistance has run alongside literature and libraries, now and throughout American history. #Booksky 💙📚 bookriot.com/introducing-...

House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.

“I don’t think enough people recognize how the normalization of human suffering and disposability happen. When you stop caring about any group of people and their suffering…you also become more vulnerable to the violence they’re experiencing.” organizingmythoughts.org/sarah-kendzi...

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for banning books and curricula about race and gender at schools on military bases around the world. This is a violation of students’ First Amendment rights.

Tomorrow night! @erikatwurth.bsky.social. Yours truly. At @bookpeople.bsky.social. If you’re anywhere near Austin, I hope you come hang out and talk spooky things with us. Register for free here: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople...

Happening this Saturday in Altadena, California:

Now see, this is my kind of carrying on

Tune into this week's episode of Hey YA, where @erica-eze.bsky.social and I talk about some of the most interesting new releases of March, this year's Summer Scares Selections, the FOREVER . . . adaptation, and more: bookriot.com/listen/ya-bo...

“Don’t obey in advance, and don’t obey later” is a bar 🗣️ 🔥

Tune in to this week's episode of Hey YA, where @erica-eze.bsky.social and I highlight some of the best YA books hitting shelves this month. bookriot.com/listen/febru...

Surprised Beyoncé actually won album of the a year. It make sense—it’s her best, most ambitious album—but I’m surprised. It also seems like they were low-key shading the CMAs with that best country album award 😂

This is why it's so important to learn history. It's EMPOWERING, not just instructive.

Catch up on the best new YA books to hit shelves in January and get the info on joining @erica-eze.bsky.social and I for a Sweet Valley High book club next month: bookriot.com/listen/best-...

Fresh words ✨ allyfromnola.medium.com/how-popular-...

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground." — Fredrick Douglass

Look at that horse Look at that horse Look at that horse #beyonce @krileytips.bsky.social

On this week's episode of Hey YA, @erica-eze.bsky.social and I talk about our favorite YA reads of the year, as well as trends we noticed throughout the year. For me, it was reading a lot more historical fiction than usual & being okay with far LESS reading. bookriot.com/listen/favor...

Stand with the workers. Here's also a reminder that most book stores don't pay a living wage and that distinction between minimum and living wage really matters. bookriot.com/indie-bookst...

400+ ✨ #BlackBooks ✨ Coming Out in 2025

Jfc

Tune in to this week's episode of Hey YA, where @erica-eze.bsky.social and I highlight some of the best YA books hitting shelves in December: bookriot.com/listen/decem...

Saw Wicked, and honestly was a little disappointed 😅 It was entertaining enough, but too long and it was lacking…something

Are you looking for queer comic creators now that you've joined Bluesky? Here's a good starting place. Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/M8FuKUZ

One of my all time faves

"MUSTARD!" 🗣️ #kendricklamar #gnx #djmustard

📚 Bookish Checkpoint 📚 •last book you read: Morgana and Oz by Miyuli • current read: Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin •last book you added to your tbr: All the Black Girls Are Activists by EbonyJanice Moore •next anticipated read: James by Percival Everett #booksky #blacksky #blackbooksky

I don't remember if it was Tananarive Due or Nisi Shawl who said Octavia wouldn't have wanted us to be afraid of these Parable times... it was during one of those pandemic seminars. What they said comforted me. The protagonist Lauren, a young disabled Black woman, takes action. So should we.

Post a pic you took (no description) to bring some zen

I’m making a starter pack of 2025 debuts! If you’re a trad pub author whose debut comes out next year, @ me here to join. 🤩

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

So bizarre that this isn't considered a national crisis, especially by politicians on the left. We're sleepwalking into an environment where like 80% of available information is right-wing propaganda and the rest is behind a paywall.

A new report from PEN America explores trends in book banning over the last 2 years: bookriot.com/book-bans-en...

Proud of our own @erica-eze.bsky.social for this one.