Category: Riot Rundown

Sponsored by What’s Mine and Yours, the new novel from Naima Coster

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

From the author of Halsey Street, a sweeping novel of legacy, identity, the American family—and the ways that race affects even our most intimate relationships.
A North Carolina community rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west. For two students, Gee and Noelle, the integration sets off a chain of events that will tie their two families together in unexpected ways over the next twenty years.

Sponsored by Wicked All Night by Jeaniene Frost

Veritas and Ian have finally defeated their worst enemy, but their work isn’t done yet. An escape from the netherworld pits them against supernatural beings seeking to rule over mortals once again. Even as a wedge is driven between them, Veritas and Ian must rally friends and foes alike – while avoiding a death sentence from the vampire council. Can they stand together against the unearthly powers about to be unleashed? Or does their love—and humanity—not stand a chance?

Sponsored by House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas.

Sarah J. Maas’s #1 New York Times bestselling Crescent City series begins with House of Earth and Blood, introducing half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a modern fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance. With unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and page-turning suspense, this richly inventive new fantasy series delves into the heartache of loss, the price of freedom—and the power of love.

Sponsored by The Conductors by Nicole Glover, published by Mariner Books, an imprint of HMH Books & Media

In this vibrant and original novel, Hetty Rhodes, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, helped usher dozens of people north with her wits and magic. Now that the Civil War is over, Hetty and her husband have settled in Philadelphia, solving murders and mysteries together. When they find one of their friends slain in an alley, they set off to find answers. But the secrets and intricate lies of the elites of Black Philadelphia only serve to dredge up questions. To solve this mystery, they will have to face ugly truths all around them, including the ones about each other.

Sponsored by Simon & Schuster

What do Sylvia Plath, Joan Didion, Grace Kelly, and Rita Hayworth have in common? All of them were former residents of the Barbizon Hotel. Intended as a safe haven for the “Modern Woman” seeking a career in the arts, it became the place to stay for any ambitious young woman hoping for fame and fortune. This is the first history of New York’s most famous residential hotel, and the remarkable women who lived there.

Sponsored by Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley with Fierce Reads

This groundbreaking thriller centers on Daunis, a biracial unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal who’s never quite fit in. After Daunis witnesses a shocking murder that thrusts her into a criminal investigation, she agrees to go undercover with the FBI. But the deceptions—and deaths—keep piling up and soon the threat strikes too close to home. How far will she go to protect her community if it means tearing apart the only world she’s ever known? Don’t miss the novel Courtney Summers calls “gripping and unforgettable.”

Sponsored by Amazon Original Stories

Success, sacrifice, and the bottom line. From eight of today’s most scintillating writers come a collection of short stories about battles over currency, class, privilege—and social distance. Authors include Kiley Reid, Jia Tolentino, Emma Cline, Justin Torres, Curtis Sittenfeld, Yiyun Li, Tom Perrotta, and Christina Henriquez. Prime member? Read or listen to the Currency Collection for free.

Sponsored by Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson (House of Anansi)

After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned.

November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son’s future.

Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Ridgerunner is the follow-up to Gil Adamson’s award-winning and critically acclaimed novel The Outlander.

Sponsored by Saga Press, publisher of THE RUSSIAN CAGE

Charlaine Harris, the New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, is back with an all-new alternate history thriller, The Russian Cage. This new book in her Gunnie Rose series gives readers everything they adore from Charlaine Harris—romance, thrills, supernatural—and takes Lizbeth Rose, her “sharp-as-nails, can-do heroine,” on a new adventure from the American west to the Holy Russian Empire.

Sponsored by Mad Cave Studios, publisher of Becstar by Joe Corallo

Becstar is a star hopping mercenary-gone-full time-gambler light years away from earth. Leaving her old life behind, Becstar ekes out a living under the nefarious Shadow Syndicate’s radar with the help of her magical lucky dagger and friend Sally Soolin.

But when a mysterious girl appears with grim news and an urgent quest where the fate of the universe hangs in the balance, Becstar has no choice but to join… and regret it immediately.