#J. Courtney Sullivan

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in September

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

Boy vs. Girl: THE ENGAGEMENTS by J. Courtney Sullivan and SISTERLAND by Curtis Sittenfeld

Welcome to another installment of Boy vs. Girl, in which we (Marisa Atkinson and Casey Peterson) read and debate new ...

To Note or Not to Note: How Marginalia Changed the Way I Read

I don’t write in my books. I don’t underline, I don’t tag passages to remember later, I don’t even dog ...

MAINE Author J. Courtney Sullivan to Write Chapter on Virginia Woolf for Book Riot’s START HERE

There’s less than a week to go in our Kickstarter campaign to publish START HERE, a book designed to help you read ...

Riot Asks: J. Courtney Sullivan

J. Courtney Sullivan is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Commencement and Maine. Maine was named a Best Book of the ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: May 29, 2012

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

Best Books of 2011: The Superlatives

2012 quickly approaches, so Book Riot contributors are sharing some of the best books they read in 2011. Check out the ...

The End of Cosmos: Chick Lit in the Recession Age

About this time last month, Entertainment Weekly ran an article about authors who avoid the “chick lit” label, highlighting the likes ...