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Aries (March 21–April 19) Happy Birthday, Aries! This is a great month for you to start a new venture. Whether it’s travel, a new job, or a big project, try something out of your comfort zone. The stars show great health and strong finances for you in April, so take advantage of this moment. This month also promises great opportunities for romance, especially if you take the lead. You might enjoy When We Left Cuba (April 9, Berkley Books) by Chanel Cleeton....

It got me thinking about my own experiences with assigned reading and the books that have made an impact on me over the years. For a long time, until I became more independent and adventurous at libraries and bookstores, assigned reading was actually the only way I knew what kinds of books were out there at all. As the child of parents who were immigrants and also very much not readers in the first place, my exposure to the vast selection of books that existed was limited to school reading lists and whatever my bookish classmates happened to be reading....

Not only is Bitter Root a boon for comic readers, it will shut those jerks right the hell up. Even they won’t be able to deny this book is something special. Walker and Brow were kind enough to take some time to answer some questions about Bitter Root and their writing process for us here at Book Riot: Book Riot: David, you worked with Sanford on Power Man and Iron Fist and reunited for Bitter Root, which is creator owned and publishing through Image....

I suspect, though, once you get a look at these classic and modernized/reinterpreted book cover posters, you’ll be wanting to add so many to your life, whether or not you’ve read the book. Get ready to bookify your spaces, as there’s something here for everyone, whether you love children’s literature, classics, or contemporary literature. Note: some of these book cover posters are instant downloads, which are noted below where applicable....

If you purchased an audiobook on CD and you want to listen to it on your phone, you may rip the CD’s content and transfer the file to your device. But make sure to check your country’s laws regarding the ethics of CD ripping first. Whether CD or digital, it feels liberating to have the files of the audiobooks you purchased. The money that you paid for that expensive subscription is not for naught....

Meet your new reading buddy: an all-in-one spot to record everything and anything book related. Inspired by bullet journaling, Book Marks offers ideas for setting up a multitude of book tracking pages with a mix of fill-in prompts, charts, lists, and plenty of dot-grid pages to customize. To help expand your literary horizons, the journal also includes a section of recommended reading lists compiled by Book Riot. Use Book Marks to jot down what you’re currently reading, what’s on your nightstand, your favorite quotes, new vocabulary words, memorable characters, your reviews of recent reads, and more....

Millennium Falcon Cutting Board: Make your kitchen extra nerdy with this amazing cutting board! Imagine serving your next cheese plate on this beauty! Book Club Jigsaw Puzzle: Since you can’t meet your book club face-to-face yet, pair this bookish puzzle with an audiobook and some wine! Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site Matching Game: Have a kiddo that loves Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site? Get them this fun matching card game! It Was Always Wise to be Polite to Books T-Shirt: This is good advice on a T-shirt, from the novel Sorcery of Thorns!...

Book Riot is teaming up with Macmillan eDeals to giveaway one Kindle Paperwhite. Enter the form and sign-up for the Macmillan eDeals newsletter for a chance to win! Here’s a little more about the Macmillan eDeals newsletter: Be the first to hear about our down-priced eBooks across a variety of genres from your favorite authors, starting at $2.99! Author Clock: If you value unique ways to tell time, and you like quotes from literature, then back this clock!...

Today’s edition of kids’ book deals is sponsored by Oni Press

Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett for $4.00 We Were Liars by E. Lockhart for $4.50 A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn for $1.50 Madame Fourcade’s Secret War by Lynne Olson for $2.99 The Sirens of Mars by Sarah Stewart Johnson for $2.99 From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty for $1.99 My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee for $4....

Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo with Fierce Reads The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd for $2.99 Wisdom from a Humble Jellyfish: And Other Self-Care Rituals from Nature by Rani Shah for $1.99 Pines by Blake Crouch for $1.99 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs for $2.99 The Dinosaur Artist by Paige Williams for $2....

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear for $2.99 Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann for $2.99 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead for $3.99 An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir for $2.99 Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly for $3.99 In the Woods by Tana French for $2.99 The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern for $4.99 Bad Blood by John Carreyrou for $3.99 The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally & Nick Offerman for $1....

Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan for $0.99 The Poison Thread by Laura Purcell for $1.99 Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan for $2.99 Happily Ever Afters by Eise Bryant for $1.99 The Burning God by R. F. Kuang for $1.99 Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson for $1.99 How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry for $1.99 All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness for $1....

Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell for $1.99 Real Life by Brandon Taylor for $4.99 The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Oetrus Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen for $1.99 The Initial Insult by Mindy McGinnis for $1.99 Float Plan by Trish Dollar for $1.99 From a Certain Point of View by 40 Diverse Authors for $1.99 Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly for $3.99 Edinburgh by Alexander Chee Alif the Unseen by G....

Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by HarperVia Books. Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli for $1.99 The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea for $3.99 In The Distance by Hernan Diaz for $1.99 The Wild Woman’s Guide to Traveling the World by Kristin Rockaway for $2.99 Code Girls (Young Readers Edition) by Liza Mundy for $2.99 The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum for $2....

Thorn by Intisar Khanani for $2.99 The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray for $1.99 Incendiary by Zoraida Cordova for $2.99 Burial Rites by Hannah Kent for $4.99 Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco for $2.99 Edinburgh by Alexander Chee for $2.99 Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron for $1.99 The Only Girl in the World by Maude Julien for $2.99 The A....

Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Hachette Audio, and Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, read by Jason Reynolds. The Beauty That Remains by Ashley Woodfolk for $1.99 Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond for $1.99 Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice for $2.99 Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes for $1.99 Exit West by Mohsin Hamid for $1.99 The Light Over London by Julia Kelly for $1....

Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Macmillan eDeals. Love in Color by Bolu Babalola for $1.99 The Radium Girls by Kate Moore for $1.99 Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes for $2.99 I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara for $2.99 Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City by Kate Winkler Dawson for $1....

Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai with Macmillan Children’s. Dirt by Bill Buford for $3.99 Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel for $2.99 Frankly in Love by David Yoon for $1.99 Dear Martin by Nic Stone for $1.99 We Are Okay by Nina LaCour for $2.99 Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones for $3.99 The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz for $3....