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Read These: Book Riot Live Speakers Recommend

Because our TBR piles can never be high enough, we asked our speakers: What book do you wish more people had read? Their suggestions await you!

You can also check out full individual interviews here (we’re adding more all the time), then get your Book Riot Live tickets for $20 off with code BOOKNERD.

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Librarians and Lightsabers at Book Riot Live

I spy some additions to the Book Riot Live programming! If:

– you’re a librarian or just in love with your library;
– you’ve read and/or watched Orange is the New Black and now have some serious questions for the judicial system;
– you’ve always wondered what a Wookiee might sound like in iambic pentameter;

Then you will want to get yourself to the Schedule page and scroll on down, and get your tickets for $20 off with code BOOKNERD!

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Unveiling the Book Riot Live Interview

We invited our speakers to tell us a little bit more about themselves in a brief interview, and the answers have started coming in. We can now report that of responding speakers, the majority are very open in their peanut butter preferences, but split down the middle on writing style. Who is the peanut butter hater? Find out here. Don’t have your tickets yet? Get them for $20 off!

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First Look at the Schedule, Last Chance for VIP Tickets

This week is full of Book Riot Live action. We’ve revealed our first batch of panels, and what a fine bunch they are! We’ve got live podcasts and discussions about humor, writing craft, making change, and more. And today is your last shot at VIP tickets. If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, GO FORTH — you have through midnight tonight, August 31, to grab the VIP passes with all their lovely perks (including first crack at RSVPs to limited-seating panels), and you can get $20 off on top of that using code BOOKNERD.

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Book Riot Live Prep: Rabbit-Holes and Nightmares

Rioter Wallace is reading ahead for Book Riot Live 2016, and documenting the experience! One of her first picks is Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina:

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Get more recs for reading ahead right here, and get your VIP tickets for $20 off through August 31.

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Book Riot Live: The Podcast Edition

A few of our podcasts will be returning to Book Riot Live 2016; while you wait to find out which, why not revisit the delightful antics of last year’s live recordings? Listen along below, and register here with code BOOKNERD for $20 off!

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9 Books and a Video for Book Riot Live

Ready to find out more about our speakers?

  • Kelly recommends 5 books from Meg Medina’s oeuvre.
  • Troy recommends 4 books to get you started with Walter Mosley’s work.
  • Jenn picks her favorite of Moth GrandSlam winner Tara Clancy’s storytelling performances.

Get your tickets for $20 off your weekend pass with code BOOKNERD!

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Last Month for VIP Perks at Book Riot Live

VIP perks are disappearing soon — don’t throw away your shot! Register by August 31 and get these bonuses:

– First notice on additions to the event, new programming, etc.
– Early access to RSVP for limited-seating panels
– A special discount on pre-ordered books from our con bookstore

Go get ’em, and use code BOOKNERD during check-out to get $20 off your weekend pass!

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Award-Winners All Over the Place at Book Riot Live

Two of our speakers will be included in this year’s Best American Science-Fiction and Fantasy; one of them helped her library win a 2016 NYC Neighborhood Library Award; one of them won the 2016 RT Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Futuristic Romance; and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Keep an eye on the line-up here!

More VIP perks are coming soon, so if you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, go go go.

Use code BOOKNERD to get $20 off your weekend pass, or $10 off your single-day pass

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Your Summer Reading: The Book Riot Live Edition

Trying to pick the next book for your summer reading? We have recommendations for you, Post-It style!

You can still grab your ticket for $20 off with code BOOKNERD, good through July 31. And while you’re at it you can grab tickets to our Books & Booze Pairing with Diane McMartin, a Book Riot Live water bottle, and other awesome extras.

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