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The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week

The most read books on Goodreads this week include popular book club picks, historical fiction, a tradwife thriller, and more.

What to know about the forthcoming Martin Scorsese adaptation of What Happens at Night.

From AI invading HEATED RIVALRY fanfiction to the growth of mysteries in Christian fiction, catch up with the latest news for libraries.

Travel the World With These Comics in Translation

Read your way into excellent comics from across the globe with these comics in translation.

I just wanted to see if anyone else wants to talk about this. I got a kindle unlimited subscription for the first time a couple months ago and have been astounded at the amount of Ai books on there and how many are being…

Usually when I travel to a country, I like to simultaneously read something by an author native to the place I'm visiting, so for my Japan trip this year I chose the aforementioned Mishima book because of it being lightw…

Author interview for Just A Cozy Little Murder: Everyone in Driftwood Cove is Lying

I'm a big fan of fantasy; I love a long book, I love a long series. I'm also a longtime fan of Stephen King, having read and loved a bunch of his horror novels. So I was really sure I would enjoy the Dark Tower. I starte…

Author interview for The Superman Wars: A Battle for Truth, Justice, and an American Icon

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for August 13, 2026

Genre-bending near-future tech horror, rural noir in a small Michigan town, the woman who kicked off the Harlem Renaissance, and more of today's best book deals

I've been a passive lurker on here for a long time and I feel like the quality of posts on this subreddit have gone downhill. Half of anything that trends are people piling on popular series and denigrating their audien…

Hold on to the edge of your seat as we hunt for clues and solve the case with these exciting new mystery and thriller books for the week! There are so many bestselling authors with new novels for you to dive into this we…

Looking to fall in love with some new romance reads? You’ll adore these exciting new novels! This week you can get your hands on books by bestselling authors R.L. Merrill, Siera London, Daphne Willows, Alina Jacobs, Tric…

Literary fiction readers are in for a treat. This week’s latest releases list is full of intriguing reads you won’t want to miss! The new releases list includes so many bestselling authors like Marilee Dahlman, Madeleine…

Set off on an adventure to new worlds this week! This selection of new science fiction and fantasy books will surely please! Science Fiction fans should be excited about the latest from bestselling authors M.R. Forbes, J…

Hello readers and welcome to our Weekly FAQ thread! Our topic this week: How to find the best version/translation of a book? You can view previous FAQ threads here in our wiki. Thank you and enjoy! submitted by …

Book of the month: Ryan Falzon

As the heatwaves rippled across Europe, one summer novel held me gripped. It comes from Foundry Editions, an indie publisher set up in 2023 to champion literature from around the Mediterranean and notable, like fellow le…

Hello everyone and welcome to our newest weekly thread: FAQ! Since these questions are so popular with our readership we've decided to create this new post in order to better promote these discussions. Every Sunday we wi…

It’s been my pleasure to be involved with a number of podcasts focusing on reading and/or translation in recent months in various capacities – as a guest, interviewer and producer. As such, I thought I’d give a roundup o…

Free Virtual Incomprehension Workshop

For anyone who’s interested, there’s a rare opportunity to join one of my Incomprehension Workshops online next week. Hosted by the Interfaith Center in Oxford, Ohio, US, this virtual, 90-minute workshop is open to anyon…

Book of the month: Jeyamohan

If you’ve never heard of Jeyamohan, I wouldn’t be surprised. Until recently, his work wasn’t widely available in English outside India. That is starting to change: next month Hachette in the UK (and FSG Originals in the …

Book of the month: Iris Wolff

Last month I had the honour of introducing the Indie Press Network’s spring showcases, two virtual events presenting some of the key titles coming out from small presses in the UK and Ireland in the next few months. As i…

Relearning to Read ebook now available

Eight months after the launch of the paperback of Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-knowing, the ebook edition has hit the virtual shelves. It’s been lovely and humbling to see responses to the book so far. Prospect …

Special Edition: Why Do We Love Mystery Novels?

Vanessa Zoltan is joined by friend and mentor Dr. Stephanie Paulsell to discuss the appeal of mystery novels and their relationship to religion. If you're interested in joining Stephanie and Casper on the Agatha Christ…

Commitment: The Boy Who Lived (Book 1, Chapter 1)

In the very final episode of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile, and Matt Potts revisit Book 1, Chapter 1 through our very first theme of commitment. They discuss why the Dursleys love nor…

Special Edition: Lectio Divina with Vanessa and Ariana

A new Lectio Divina every week with Vanessa and Ariana. Sign-up on Patreon at www.patreon.com/harrypottersacredtext Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Whole Series Wrap-Up: Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

Vanessa and Casper look back at the past ten years of making Harry Potter and the Sacred Text and their experience reading Harry Potter. What have they learned along the way? What characters, themes, and questions are st…

Wrap-Up: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Vanessa and Casper wrap up their discussion of The Deathly Hallows with a look back on the entire book! They discuss Grindelwald's end, Harry's clarity, and the bravery and sacrifice of so many 'side' characters. Next we…

Love: Nineteen Years Later (Book 7, Epilogue)

This week, Casper and Vanessa explore the theme of Love in the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! They discuss 'all was well,' Ron as a husband and father, and the power of privacy. Throughout the episode …

Letter from Aestas

After a decade of reading and reviewing books, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to take a step back from blogging. Running this book blog has been such a huge and wonderful part of my life. I’ve written over 600 book r…

Latest Book News — January 10, 2022

BOOKWORM NEWS: Juniper Hill by Devney Perry is now live!! — “Memphis Ward arrives in Quincy, Montana, on the fifth worst day of her life. She needs a shower. She needs a snack. She needs some sanity. Because moving acros…

Latest Book News — December 14, 2021

BOOKWORM NEWS: Shelter by Kristen Proby is now live!! — “Remi Carter has survived her fifteen minutes of fame and is putting LA in her rearview mirror. As a former reality show contestant, she’s trading staged expedition…

Latest Book News — November 30, 2021

BOOKWORM NEWS: Dream Keeper by Kristen Ashley (Dream Team series) is now live!! — “Pepper Hannigan is determined to keep any romance off the table while her daughter Juno is still young. Sure, a certain handsome commando…

LATEST BOOK NEWS — November 16, 2021

BOOKWORM NEWS: The Wolf by JR Ward (Black Dagger Brotherhood Series, Prison Camp spinoff) is now live!! — “Return to the sizzling glymera’s prison camp in this dark and sexy second novel in the new Black Dagger Brotherho…

Latest Book News — November 9, 2021

BOOKWORM NEWS: Heard It in a Love Song by Tracey Garvis Graves is now live!! — “Love doesn’t always wait until you’re ready. Layla Hilding is thirty-five and recently divorced. Struggling to break free from the past—her …

Where the Crawdads Sing

Book Review Author :Delia Owens Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher : GP Putnam’s Sons Year of Publication: 2019 Number of Pages: 368 My Rating : 4 out of 5 I picked this up with a bit of hesitation. In spite of the grea…

North and South

Classics Book Review Author : Elizabeth Gaskell Genre : Literary Classic Fiction Original Publisher : Chapman and Hall Year of Publication : 1854 Number of Pages : 396 My Rating : 5 out of 5 My most recent read is this g…

Grown Ups

Author : Marian Keyes Genre : Family Drama Publisher : Michael Joseph -an imprint of Penguin Year of Publication : 2020 Number of Pages : 633 My Rating : 4 out of 5 I totally fell in love with Marian Keyes after reading …

It Ends With Us

Book Review Author : Colleen Hoover Genre : Romance Publisher : Simon & Schuster Year of Publication : 2016 Number of Pages : 384 My Rating : 5 out of 5 Lily Bloom is upset following her father’s very emotionally drainin…

The Woman in the Window

Book Review Author : A. J. Finn Genre : Psychological Thriller Publisher : Harper Collins Published : January 2018 Number of Pages : 390 My Rating : 5 out of 5 The Woman in the Window is a psychological thriller by A. J.…

The Testaments

Book Review Author : Margaret Atwood Genre : Literary Fiction/Science Fiction and Fantasy Publisher : Penguin Random House Year of Publication : 2019 Number of Pages : 401 My Rating : 5 out of 5 This book is a sequel to …

BETWEEN ONE THING AND ITS OTHER

Contogenis explores themes of family, trauma, and death in these bittersweet poems. In “Giddy Green,” the speaker reflects on the effort to capture fleeting sensations and the ordinariness of daily survival. “In Tandem” …

A TEHRAN SO QUIET AND OTHER STORIES

In the opening story, “Bazaar Bozorg,” a woman living in Toronto returns to Tehran to help the sister who betrayed her trust. “The Late Bloomer” explores the nuances of sex and power, while “Kafkaesque” shows a father wo…

AND SLAVERY NO MORE

It’s July of 1862, and Montgomery “Monty” Tolliver, one of the beleaguered president’s most trusted advisers, is sitting in Lincoln’s office. Today, Lincoln wants to hear Monty’s thoughts about how his Proclamation shoul…

A KILLER PLOT

Despite her brief moment of internet fame after catching a killer at a crime writing festival in A Novel Murder (2025), Jane is without an agent or publisher, and suffering from writer’s block. Still, she has journeyed f…

STORYKNIFE

Introducing the main characters of “The Axe,” the narrator—omniscient, omnipotent, and jaded—suddenly pauses: “But none of that matters, because these aren’t real people, and it’s hard enough to hold onto your own memori…

ALIVE

British academic/researcher Challenger (How To Be Animal, 2017) takes off from, and frequently returns to, Aristotle’s thinking in this wide-ranging, sometimes confounding meditation on theories of what distinguishes lif…