#Riot Recommendation

In Riot Recommendation, we take a request for a recommendation and turn it over to the Book Riot community to help them with ideas.

Riot Recommendation: “Back to the Future” Edition

This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.  It’s the year 2044, and-like most ...

Feed Me, Seymour: A Round-Up of Recommended Food Writing

Last week, I asked for book recommendations to feed my need to read about food, cooking, and the eating life. ...

Riot Recommendation: Roadtrip Audiobooks

Riot reader Margot Wood is in search of audiobook recommendations for an upcoming roadtrip. She posted on our Facebook page: ...

Riot Recommendation: Food Writing

On the short list of Things I Love As Much as I Love Books, food takes one of the top ...

Riot Recommendation: A Round-Up of Stories that Illuminate Life in Other Countries

This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by All Woman and Springtime by Brandon W. Jones. Before she met Il-sun in an ...

Riot Recommendation: Daily Life in Other Countries

This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by All Woman and Springtime by Brandon W. Jones. Before she met Il-sun ...

Riot Recommendation: Contemporary Literature for High School Students

This latest request for recommendations was sent to us on Facebook. Here’s the question: One of my fellow English teachers ...

Riot Recommendation: Nonfiction with a Side of Self-Help?

I recently fell ass-over-teakettle in love with Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit, which combines social history with a research-based ...

Riot Recommendation: Contemporary Epistolary Novels

I’ve always loved fiction that plays with structure or narrative style to tell the story. I love jumping from past ...

Riot Recommendation: A Round-Up of Apocalyptic Stories

This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by After the Snow by S.D. Crockett.  The oceans stopped working before Willo was born, ...