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December Book Adaptation News

1. The BBC, along with Brontë Film and TV, is set to adapt the J.K. Rowling/Robert Galbraith crime novels. The ...

Literary Tourism: Las Vegas, Nevada

It's not only strip clubs and gambling in Las Vegas, Nevada. Promise. Somewhere within that place of extremes, there are also books.

Back to School: 10 Books For Reliving Those College Days

It is that time of year when our local stores are running Back to School sales on everything from pencils ...

Be Gone, Sanctimonious Defenders of the Supposed Literary Canon

Get your rotten vegetables ready, hipsters, cynics, and sanctimonious self-professed defenders of what you view as the literary canon. This ...

If Heavy Metal Lyrics Were Book Blurbs, Vol. 2

As we’ve learned (maybe to the surprise of many), heavy metal and literature have a rather intimate relationship. To review: ...

High School Reading, 2.0

It’s time to dust off the books! Classics are classic for a reason, but it doesn’t mean they have to ...

Our Favorite Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels

Love it or hate it, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. (Personally, I LOVE ...

On Long Sentences

I love long sentences; ever since I moved beyond the Berenstain Bears, I’ve adored a sentence bristling with commas and ...

I Regret Reading These 5 Books (Because I Should Have Listened to Them Instead)

Through Book Riot’s relationship with Audible, the leading provider of audiobooks, Book Riot readers who are new to Audible can ...

Five Favorite Covers of 2013

The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane The second I saw this cover, I had to have the book. Turns out, ...