"These are comics ongoing or releasing this year by either Black creative teams, or starring Black superheroes in a prominent light!" -Terrence Sage
Win free copies of new and upcoming books! We’ve got over 3,400 copies of 99 titles up for grabs this month in Early Reviewers.
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower, steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Celebrating the greatest love of all today (and every day)—reading! What are your favorite quotes about reading?
Books + Secret Santa = SantaThing!
Pay into the system, select your favorite bookstore, and your Secret Santa will pick books for your in secret, while you pick for another Santa. You’ll receive the amount you pay in, in books! SantaThing brings book-lovers the world over together in the joy of giving and receiving bookish surprises.
In our 100+ Frightful Friday selections there has been one notable author missing—Oliver Onions, one of the true grandmaster of the English ghost story. Onions wrote five volumes of ghost stories throughout his life that included such classics as “The Rosewood Door”, “The Beckoning Fair One”, and today’s chilling tale, “The Cigarette Case”, in which the titular object leads the story’s narrator to recount an eerie evening spent in the French countryside.
Looking for something to read in the new year? See LibraryThing staff’s top five reads for the year, and add yours to the list!
Happy Friday!
LT Staffer Mike is working on The Likeness by Tana French.
What are you reading this week?
Win free books! Our December batch of Early Reviewers titles is live and ready for requests. We’re giving away over 2,200 copies of 98 titles this month. Check it out!
Which books are you hoping to snag this month?
Happy Friday!
LT Staffer Loranne is finishing up In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard.
What are you reading?
SantaThing is coming to town: LibraryThing’s bookish Secret Santa is underway!
What books are you hoping for this year?
This month’s Firsts on the 1st pick is from the inimitable Terry Pratchett’s Death-takes-a-holiday (literally) tale, Hogfather. Welcome to December!
What are your favorite holiday reads?
It’s SantaThing time!
“What’s SantaThing?” you ask? It’s like “Secret Santa,” but with a bookish twist.
You sign up, pick your price point and bookseller. Then, we match you with a Secret Santa with similar reading tastes, and you pick books for them, in secret.
At the same time, another Santa is picking books, just for you. LibraryThing staff elves order the books and send them off, and you receive surprise books!
Join us, and give and receive some great reading.
Our latest One LIbraryThing, One Book group read kicks off in a couple weeks. Our pick for November is David Mitchell’s upcoming spooky take on the haunted house story, Slade House.
We’re giving away 50 ARCs to our US members. Check it out!
The official LibraryThing iPhone App has arrived!
To celebrate, we’re giving away lifetime memberships. Sign in to your account (or sign up for a new one) via the app, and you’ll be automatically upgraded!