the book slut

In our first Secret Life Of 2020 we live vicariously through the very vivid, colourful and highly fashionable life of a Parisian in London.

It may come as no surprise but one of my wheelhouse subject areas is Chicanx/Latinx literature and history books. I am a Chicanx feminist...

In this first year at The Book Slut, we wanted to commemorate the last ten years of our reading. We are but a few excited...

These books nearly made the cut into the top of our list, but failed by one vote. Good thing each book had a pair of champions voting for...

We culled over 180 books amongst our writers as their best of the decade. There were quite a few that only had one passionate vote, so we...

One of the best books I read this year had a line in it that stopped me, took me right out of the story. It was not a bad jarring...

This is an impossible task. Tortured with the personality of liking most things, I greatly enjoyed 97% of the masterful one hundred books...

This year was a great reading year. Even though I didn’t meet the goal I had set for myself at the start of the year, the books I did get...

Literature may not be amongst the first things that comes to mind when one thinks of the Caribbean but our writers are the pearls of the...

The funny thing about this Best Books of 2019 list is that apparently my year consisted of reading very few books actually published in...

I had a Top 8 friends on MySpace and now I have a top 8 books of the year. If the generational shoe fits, as they say… The Book That Made...

When I sat down to make my list of favorite books from this year, I came up with 28. Fortunately and unfortunately for you, those numbers...

As we come to the close of the year and start to reflect on the months gone by the important questions looms: what were my favourite...

Let’s be honest, 2019 went way too quickly, and regretfully, I didn’t manage to get as far through my TBR list as I’d hoped. Whereas in...

“And whereas the man’s throttle died in the closing salvo of the orgasm, I found that the woman’s was often must beginning. There was...

Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading.

A moving memoir that explores the intersections of race, misogyny, violence, sexuality, and identity.

I love love, in all its diverse forms! Speaking of diversity, my top five romance debuts this year are diverse in race, age and sexuality.

Dance, Racial Identity, and Cultural Appropriation in Zadie Smith’s Swing Time

A short and sweet look into what some of our writers have been reading this week.

There are few people who believe their body is perfect. Self-image doesn’t always have to do with how healthy a person is or how they’re...

Empty-headed panic is pretty much what it feels like to whittle down a lifetime of reading into five favorites.

Circe, the daughter of Helios, the God of the Sun and Mightiest of Titans, is not a daughter fit for a god.

"A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul." – Richard Flanagan