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Six Books to Reach Your Reading Goal

Need some quick reads to reach your reading goal by December 31st? We recommend six books that fit the bill.

On Annotating Books

One Rioter on why she can't read without a pen nearby.

Baby Got Backlist: The Best Books That Didn’t Come Out In 2013

There were certainly some amazing releases in 2013, but there are no rules that say you have to read new ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: October 2, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. [galleryview ...

Handicapping the Nobel Prize in Lit: Philip Roth vs. E.L. James?

Let it not be said that the folks at Ladbrokes don’t have a sense of humor. There, at the end ...

Nothing Is More Real Than Fiction

There’s a passage about halfway through Don DeLillo’s novel Underworld that is so profound, so unerringly elegant, that I very ...

The Perfect Book, The Perfect Soundtrack

As a general rule, people are slightly embarrassed by who they were as teenagers. For most of us, it was ...

Genre Kryptonite: Dark Sports Novels

This is a guest post by Scott Beauchamp. Scott is a writer living in New York. There’s an unattributed quote ...