the book slut

What is one person supposed to do when the world is falling apart?

A sexual memoir of sorts but also part handbook, part exploration of female sexuality, part social commentary, and part so much more.

In our first-ever instalment of the secret life of, we follow an Australian student navigating the streets of London.

When I finished the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, it’s like I shivered off a weight that had been pressing down on...

Half of this list consists of books I read in middle school and high school, that shaped me as the reader and writer I am today.

November is here. The seasons differ around the world but a month without men sounds great to me, (not really, we love men here).

I hold many vices, devout Christian or Catholic I am not. Although I do hold testament to the 10 commandments in some ways, that being I...

Being snobby about books might be my fatal flaw but if I’m going to spend so much time committed to reading, then I want it to be...

The books you love that no one else seems to know or care about are equal parts maddening and invigorating. On one side, you’re shaking...

The best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books of the last year were honored at the 31st annual Lambda Literary Awards on Monday...

American novelist Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage has won the Women’s prize for fiction. Less than two months after Tayari Jones won...

I’m a serial re-reader, which is why I’m so bad at reading new releases. But sometimes, I just like a book and never come back to it...

British magazine The Bookseller announced the 2019 British Book Award winners on Monday night, with Sally Rooney’s Normal People taking...

There are so many books in the world, it would be impossible for one person to be able to read them all. And yet, here I am, trying. My...

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced its shortlists for the best science fiction and fantasy works of 2018. The Locus has...

Choosing my all-time favourite books was much harder than I thought it would be. There are so many books that I adore, and my favourites...

2018 was a great reading year for me! While I read a lot of memoirs and poetry, fiction definitely dominates my top 7 picks for last...

We meet at Paddington Station in London, which feels appropriate. There’s a juxtaposition at play, to congregate where people go to...

Think back to your first loss. Perhaps it was a plastic shovel thrown out the window of a moving car, the skin on your knee to a...

For someone that loves literary fiction novels, I was surprised to find that of all these books I’m hotly anticipating, none are straight...

There are many descriptors one could use for this expansive novel; not all of them would entice a reader, but Castillo's debut was so...

This year’s Jhalak Prize was awarded to Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City. Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army...

This year’s Wellcome Book Prize was awarded to Will Eaves’ Murmur, a fictional novel based on the arrest and enforced castration of...

Alas, The Overstory can’t win them all. On Monday, the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction was bestowed upon Azareen Van der Vliet...