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10 Tasty Book + Wine Pairings

Rebecca Joines Schinsky

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Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the executive director of product and ecommerce at Riot New Media Group. She co-hosts All the Books! and the Book Riot Podcast. Follow her on Twitter: @rebeccaschinsky.

We’ve teamed up with the awesome folks at Second Glass to celebrate the happy marriage of books and wine. Last week, we asked you to share your best book + wine pairings and offered a pair of tickets to Second Glass’s NYC Wine Riot to a randomly-selected winner.

Congratulations to our winner, Haley! She recommends The Sun Also Rises and a good Spanish tempranillo.

If you didn’t win, don’t despair! You can save $5 on your Wine Riot tickets TODAY ONLY when you use the code “bookriot” at checkout.

Here are 9 more pairings to delight your palate.

Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being with Roy Estate’s 2007 Cabernet.

The Red and the Black, with a white

Atonement and Pinot Noir

East of Eden with a Malbec

A Greek red and Mary Renault’s The Lion in the Gateway

Elizabeth Bishop’s complete poems and a Shiraz

Apothic Red with John Saturnall’s Feast

Eat, Pray, Love with a bold red from Lazio (Rome)

The Neverending Story with a glass of Hopewell Valley Vineyards’ Spuma Rossa, a sparkling red as fizzy and magical as the book.