Author: Jeff O'Neal

Last week, Book Riot launched a new podcast series called Annotated, a documentary podcast series about books, reading, and language (if you like This American Life, Planet Money, or Invisibilia, you’ll be familiar with the format).

Hachette is the exclusive sponsor of all six episodes of this first season, and they are giving away prize packs of all twelve books sponsoring the podcast this season to three winners.

The prize pack includes:

• Al Franken: Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
• Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
• The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
• Devastation Road by Jason Hewitt
• Seeing Red by Sandra Brown
• Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
• The Lost Woman by Sara Blaedel
• Blame by Jeff Abbott
• Careers for Women by Joanna Scott
• Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed

Ok, ready? Go here to enter Hachette’s giveaway.

And we hope you’ll check out the first episode of Annotated: “Is It 1984 Yet?” It’s about the resurgence of interest in George Orwell’s 1984 and the story of how 1984 came to be in the first place.

The next five episodes in the series will come out every other week, and you can subscribe to Annotated in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or in your podcast player of choice.

Find out more about Annotated here, or just click our fancy logo for the show below:

We have a Serafina series prize pack to give away to one Riot reader! One (1) winner receives:

• the complete Serafina series;
• a cloud light and colorful umbrella;
• plus custom Serafina and the Splintered Heart earrings!

The third installment in Robert Beatty’s #1 New York Times bestselling middle-grade series hits shelves on July 3rd!

The storms are coming….

Something has happened to Serafina. She has awoken into a darkness she does not understand, scarred from a terrible battle, only to find that life at Biltmore Estate has changed in unimaginable ways. Old friends do unthinkable things and enemies seem all around.

A mysterious threat moves towards Biltmore, a force without a name, bringing with it violent storms and flooding that stands to uproot everything in its path. Serafina must uncover the truth about what has happened to her and find a way to harness her strange new powers before it’s too late.

With only days to achieve the impossible, Serafina fights to reclaim herself as the Guardian of Biltmore, friend of Braeden, daughter of her Pa, and heroine of the Blue Ridge Mountains and all the folk and creatures that call it home.

In the epic third installment of Robert Beatty’s #1 bestselling series, Serafina takes her rightful place among literary champions as she battles fiercely to defend all she loves and become everything that she is meant to be.

Go here to enter the giveaway, or just click the image of the prize pack below:

Nonfiction readers, this giveaway’s for you! We’ve picked 10 exciting new nonfiction books from our book mail to give to one lucky Riot reader.

(If you like nonfiction, or really just books in general, you might also like our new podcast series, Annotated. It’s an audio-documentary series telling stories about books, reading, and language. The first episode, “Is It 1984 Yet?” on George Orwell’s 1984, just launched today and you can listen to it here).

Ok, now go here to enter the nonfiction giveaway, or just click the image of the prize below!

We have 10 copies of The Sisters Chase by Sarah Healy to give away to 10 Riot readers!

Here’s what it’s all about:

A gripping novel about two sisters who are left homeless by their mother’s death and the lengths the fierce older sister will go to protect her beloved young charge.

“A deliciously compulsive read. . . . It lingers like a summer dream after the last page is turned.” —Amy Gentry, author of Good as Gone

“Part mystery, part road novel, part family saga, The Sisters Chase had me riveted from the first secret to the last revelation.” —Lisa Lutz, author of The Passenger and How to Start a Fire

“Captivating . . . a fierce and unstoppable force of nature.” —Publishers Weekly

Go here to enter the giveaway, or just click the cover image below:

We are continuing our celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone with a giveaway of five copies of the beautiful illustration edition.

These full color editions started coming out every year in 2015 with more than a 100 illustrations by Jim Kay in each volume.

Go here to enter the giveaway, or just click the illustration from the book below. Good luck!

We have 5 Chronicle Books Book Lovers prize packs to give away to 5 Riot readers! The prize pack includes:

• There’s No Place Like Home literary tattoos
• Card Catalog
• Literary Notes
• Literary Journeys: A Reader’s Journal

Celebrate your love for all things literally with these items inspired by books: Show off your favorite quotes from beloved classics with There Is No Place Like Home: Literary Tattoos from Classic Children’s Literature; keep in touch with fellow bibliophiles with these whimsical and inspiring Literary Notes: 20 Notecards & Envelopes; discover the history of the catalog card with a book from The Library of Congress, The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures; and take notes and keep track of what you want to read next with Literary Journeys: A Reader’s Journal.

Ready to take your shot? Go here to enter, or just click the cover image below:

We have 5 copies of Warren Adler’s Heart of Gold to give away to 5 Riot readers! One lucky grand prize winner will receive a $25 Amazon gift card in addition to the book.

Here’s what Heart of Gold is all about:

1970s, NYC: When Karla Smith approaches hustling lawyer Milton Gold with the urgent task of finding her inheritance, he is skeptical. But this is no ordinary inheritance: her father has left her gold coins that he kept hidden from the Nazis during WWII, now worth millions. Their lives are turned inside out when they set off on a trek through Communist-dominated Europe to Auschwitz where the treasure has been hidden in an unsuspecting place.

Go here to enter the giveaway, or just click the image below. Good luck!

We have a $100 gift card for Half Price Books burning a whole in our digital pocket. Let’s give this sucker away.

(By the way, did you know that Half Price books is the largest family-owned bookstore chain in the U.S.? With more than 120 stores? I didn’t.)

Half Price books specializes in great deals on new books, from discounted new releases to unbelievable deals on recent remainders. This gift card is good either in person or on the web, where you can troll for steals from the comfort of…well wherever you’d like.

Go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click the image below. Good luck!

We have 10 copies of CONFESSIONS OF A DOMESTIC FAILURE by Bunmi Laditan to give away!

Here’s what it’s all about:

From the creator of The Honest Toddler comes a fiction debut sure to be a must-read for moms everywhere.

There are good moms and bad moms—and then there are hot-mess moms. Introducing Ashley Keller, career girl turned stay-at-home mom who’s trying to navigate the world of Pinterest-perfect, Facebook-fantastic and Instagram-impressive mommies but failing miserably.With her razor-sharp wit and knack for finding the funny in everything, Bunmi Laditan creates a character as flawed and lovable as Bridget Jones or Becky Bloomwood while hilariously lambasting the societal pressures placed upon every new mother.

Go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click the cover image below!

We have 10 copies of The People We Hate at the Wedding by Grant Ginder to give away to 10 Riot readers!

Here’s what it’s all about:

A bitingly funny, hugely entertaining novel in which a fractured family from the Chicago suburbs must gather in London for their eldest daughter’s marriage to an upper-crust Englishman, proving that the harder we strain against the ties that bind, the tighter they hold us close.

Go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click the cover image below: