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There is no doubt that Japanese literature has been one of the outstanding successes for British bookshops in recent years: almost half of the best-selling translated fiction titles in 2024 were from Japan. Most Japanese fiction translated into English fits into broad categories – cats, crime, coffee shops – but one surprising bestseller stands alone.
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Every month, The Fright Stuff has a roundup of that month’s best horror books. Now that we’re halfway through the year, I’ve combined all those picks into one collection: The Best Horror Books of 2026. Anyone can browse the Book Riot collection and click on the cover to find the publisher’s description, a Book Riot
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Image copyright © Phoebe Wahl 2026 / Courtesy of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers There is a braiding craze in the second grade class. They’ll knit anything: shoelaces, hair, friendship bracelets, the tails of their toy ponies. But Noah has nothing to braid. So his teacher takes a whiteboard cloth and tears it into
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The oft-told origin story of Hobby Lobby is that one day in 1970, twenty-eight-year-old David Greene was sitting at a lunch counter in Oklahoma City and sharing frustrations with fellow managers. When they imagined what kind of enterprise they could create on their own, one suggested they make watches. David said, “I have a better