This Week’s Bestselling Books + More News

Welcome to the Saturday edition of Today in Books, where it’s all Book Riot, all the time. Here are the biggest news stories we covered this week.

The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists

New to the bestseller lists this week are a couple of dark new releases. First up, there’s Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab, a vampire gothic from the author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, the Shades of Magic series, and many other fan-favorite novels. The other title debuting on this list is Caught Up by Navessa Allen, the second book in the dark romance series that started with Lights Out.

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A Toolkit for the Next Generation of Intellectual Freedom Advocates

Meet The Freedom to Read Teen Advocacy Toolkit , a robust program and toolkit built for library workers, educators, and community organizations working with today’s young people to support and bolster teen advocacy and activism.

While intellectual freedom and library support are the focus of The Freedom to Read Teen Advocacy Toolkit, it is adaptable and flexible to meet the interests and concerns in any community.

The 2025 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Are Here

Presented annually since 1967, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious given to books for young readers. They are given every year in June in three categories–picture book, fiction, and nonfiction–to books published in the United States between June 2024 and May 2025. Three judges, selected by the editor in chief of The Boston Globe, choose the slate of winners and honorees in each category.

The 2025 awards were announced on June 23.

Read the Best of SFF with the 2025 Locus Award Winners

Love speculative fiction? Then you’re going to want to get your paws on the winners of this year’s Locus Awards. These books represent the best of the best as voted on by readers in science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and they’re given by Locus Magazine, which allows any reader to vote on the winners of the awards.

The awards were present at the Locus Awards Weekend on June 21, 2025. Here are the winners in 17 categories, ranging from best in genre to excellence in editing.