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Recommending Books for the Characters of BREAKING BAD

Frequently grim, but just as often daffy, each season of AMC’s Breaking Bad crystalizes into pure, novelistic TV drama. Like ...

Genre Kryptonite: Numerical Biographies

This is a guest post from Christina Oppold. Christina believes the best reading lives are lived off the couch by turning books ...

The Well-Readheads: Book Recs Are for Lovers

RJS: We just passed the halfway mark on 2012 and did our massive “best of the year so far” round-up, ...

Sixteen MORE Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else

It seems a lot of people have a lot of love for Calvin and Hobbes. When I compiled the first ...

Are You Sure You Read That Right?

Everyone’s favorite, non-grumpy grammarian Mignon Fogarty had another post this week about words that even the most well-spoken among us ...

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Most Watched Book Trailers, July 7 -13, 2012

Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!  

Are Authors Really Behaving Badly?

The literary interwebs seems to have lit up in recent weeks with posts about jerk-ass authors. Earlier this week, a ...

Should You Feel Bad About Reading Stephen King?

Sometimes it’s interesting to watch a fight. That’s even more likely to be true if the fight is a literary ...

Neil Gaiman Announces SANDMAN Prequel

This evening, in conjunction with San Diego Comic Con programming, Neil Gaiman announced that he will celebrate the 25th anniversary ...

A Brief History of American Bookmobiles…in Pictures

For book lovers, bookmobiles are oddly romantic. They seem like dream-machines, very real automobiles rolling through our lives in an ...