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Top Ten Made-Up Literary Couples

Miss Liberty Hardy’s hilarious post “Literary Missed Connections” got me thinking about how my favorite literary characters would act if ...

12 Literary Predictions for 2012

Here’s how I see this literary year going down. Tell me if you disagree. January — The first literary mystery ...

Literary Missed Connections

Waiting in line at Burger King – m4w (Miami) You: Purple hair, multiple piercings. Me: Swarthy, long red coat. You said ...

7 Surprise Twists I’d Rather Live Without [or The Airing of Grievances, Literary Style]

A truly surprising surprise twist—the kind that  makes you gasp or clutch your pearls or reexamine everything you thought you ...

When Used Books Attack: Banana Edition

At RiverRun Bookstore, we carry used books as well as new. People drop off boxes of their books, and we ...

The Nose Knows: A Perfumer Captures the Scent of a Library

To book lovers like us, the smell of leather-bound tomes or fresh paperbacks can be utterly seductive. Ever wish you ...

Top Five Signs You’re Reading Too Much Young Adult Literature

I read a lot of young adult literature, as previous posts at Book Riot might suggest. But this semester, I’m also ...

Welcome to the Library of Fictional Fiction

The Library of Fictional Fiction: a place populated with books that only exist in works of fiction. Books within books. Untamed by the Dewey decimal system.

Conversations With Non-Reading Mombies

Stop me if you’ve been here: you’re talking to an acquaintance, someone who does not really know you. It comes ...

Drop It Like It’s Haute: 5 Authors We Want to See Host the Oscars

Welcome to Drop It Like It’s Haute, a weekly celebration of that unholiest of marriages between pop culture and literature. __________ ...