the book slut

This story is a book about unbreakable resolve and the narrator’s fight to reclaim her identity in the face of devastating circumstances.

This post is late. I’m sorry. But that’s because 2020 was a bit of a shit year for lots of reasons. And do you know what must have been...

The Book Slut contributors voted for their favorite releases of 2020...

These books will remain special because they managed to keep my attention in a year of a pandemic...

I simply cannot put them in a numbered order as they all exist in my brain and heart with different and at times fluctuating levels of...

2020 might’ve been garbage, but at least the books I managed to read over the past 12 months weren’t. Here are my top 10 reads from this...

In my reading life this year: I finally embraced revisiting my favorite genre of my youth: contemporary romance— and have gone out of my...

My list of favorite books from this year looks different from years past and shows the shift my taste has taken, both deliberately and...

2020 was a strange year for reading, at least in my case. Pre-lockdown, I was reading books like crazy—around two per week! Once we hit...

We are so lucky that we had our books to comfort us in a time of strain and tragedy...

MILK FED. OH MY GOD. I LOVED THIS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY BOOK. This is one of my favorite books I have read this year. I almost DNF'd in the...

Alice Oseman writes the type of books I one day hope to write. I can’t even be jealous because her work brings me so much comfort and I...

It has been a rough eight months in some shape or form for everybody. In the summer as the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement experienced...

I once had a professor come up to me at a coffee shop, tap me on the shoulder, and ask when I was going to finally, finally give up...

In March, shortly after sharing a brief review on Instagram of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, I got an alert that Alexander Chee...

I first encountered Alexander Chee’s writing in 2018 when I took an afternoon master class with Catapult’s writing program in Manhattan....

This week; James Baldwin, Rachel Cusk, Kate Weinberg, Lindy West, Esmeralda Sanatiago, & Dorothy Allison.

While I and many people I know, in recent literature and in real life, still refer to the presidential election of 2016 as The Election™,...

I have this shirt (thank you, Out of Print) that says “Let’s Get Political” on the front with the “lit” in political emphasized, and on...

This week; Emma Jane Unsworth, Rumaan Alam, Marina Tsvetaeva & Angela Livingstone, Melissa Grace, Maria Semple, and James McBride.

I know jackshit about the Brontë family. I was an angsty teen who hated being told what to do, and reading old classics in Humanities and...

Written by MacArthur Foundation fellow Cristina Rivera Garza, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country is an astute compendium of...

Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...

A modern gothic novel for the current generation of readers who are always looking for another queer icon. Full of spooky sapphic...