the book slut

*Introducing* The Book Slut’s newest column, where we recommend books to you in what I believe is the most reliable and efficient way...

Sam George-Allen, Lynn Steger Strong, Heike Geissler, Sabaa Tahir, Lewis Carroll, Donna Tartt, Maria Hinojosa, Jamel Brinkley & more.

Amanda Eyre Ward and Jardine Libaire, the charming authors of Sober Lush, would do no such thing as tell you what to do.

Although, I am a big fan of true crime and murder mystery TV (Murder She Wrote, Quincy, Jonathan Creek, all that 90s jazz) I have never...

Daughters of Night, the second novel by Laura Sheperd-Robinson, starts with a murder and develops into a dynamic and thrilling story of...

Ahhh, love. We all want it. We all become better for it. We have all (probably) suffered for it. Our ideas of love are complex,...

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...

Tender Is The Flesh gives us our society reimagined where instead of animals, humans are factory farmed for consumption. Animals are now...

Schweblin’s first book, Fever Dream, had me, well, feverish when I first read it a couple of years back. It sits unabashedly as one of my...

Social justice advocate Monique W. Morris has written a phenomenal book, Pushout, which examines the criminalization of Black girls in...

This week; Wendy Liu, Alexis Daria, Tom Perrotta, Dulce Maria Cardoso & Bryan Washington

It’s not every day that I read a book and then, less than a few pages in, put it down to Google who has the film rights. This isn’t...

Taylor Jenkins Reid is best known for her most recent novel, Daisy Jones and the Six, which has collected a string of impressive...

As a Robari, a memory thief, Renata is the most powerful strain of Moria magic. She was only a child when she was kidnapped and used as a...

At first I thought I didn’t have very much to say about this book, which is a problem when I’m meant to be reviewing it. It’s just about...

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...

While reading, I now think about where a book stands morally. This is a new phenomenon for me. Previously, I'd inhale a book, think about...

Public intellectual, sociologist, and National Book Award finalist Tressie McMillan Cottom has written a superb book Thick and Other...

Moshfegh has perfected what she does, and the curse of becoming a novelist people revere is that they think they understand you.

While 2020 has brought its challenges, it has also brought me the best reading year I’ve had in a long time. Like you, I’ve been inside...

Jacob Tobia, Hanya Yanagihara, Jennifer Weiner, Emily St. John Mandel, Hernán Diaz, Hilary Mantel, Tomi Adeyemi, Bethany C. Morrow & more.

“...men are as the time is: to be tender-minded does not become a sword.” - Shakespeare, King Lear For an episodic novel, selectively...

When reading this review, you might find that I come off a bit angry. I want to make it clear that I’m not mad at Leigh Stein or her...

I can vividly recall the first time I stood up for myself to my mother. It was an inconsequential thing, for most of my childhood my...