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Book to the Future: 10 Authors We’ll Still Read and Revere in 100 Years

Book Riot contributors pick the 10 authors most likely to be read and revered 100 years from now.

Reading List for the Dog Days of Summer

Here we are, the dog days. Doesn’t August just seem interminable? If it were up to me, we’d all count ...

5 Celebrities Who Love Books

James Franco — he of the published volume of short stories and the candidacy for a PhD in comparative lit ...

What Your Brain Sounds Like On Books

Everyone has synaesthesia. Thankfully, this is not some terrible equine-meat borne virus. It is when our synapses put their keys ...

Top 10 Best Books Serial Book-Abandoners May Have Missed

“If a book doesn’t grab me in the first 50 (100? 150?) pages, I quit. I don’t have the time ...

Oh, My Souls!: Two Rioters Read Cloud Atlas

If all you know about David Mitchell and Cloud Atlas is what you’ve seen in the epically long trailers for ...

Top 12 Fall Movies Based on Books

Even with the sad (or happy, depending on your Tobey Maguire-ness) news that The Great Gatsby movie’s been delayed until ...

The CLOUD ATLAS Trailer Rundown

In Which the CLOUD ATLAS Trailer Exceeds Expectations

This winter, my Confidence Index on the film of Cloud Atlas was skeptical. OK, OK, I put on my Doubting ...

The Confidence Index: Tykwer and Wachowskis’ CLOUD ATLAS

  David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas is one of those books you love all the more because the worlds it ...