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Welcome to Literary Friendship Day!

Jenn Northington

Director, Editorial Operations

Jenn Northington has worked in the publishing industry wearing various hats since 2004, including bookseller and events director, and is currently Director of Editorial Operations at Riot New Media Group. You can hear her on the SFF Yeah! podcast nerding out about sci-fi and fantasy. When she’s not working, she’s most likely gardening, running, or (obviously) reading. Find her on Tumblr at jennIRL and Instagram at iamjennIRL.

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It’s Literary Friendship Day here at Book Riot, and we are celebrating all things friendly and bookish! Does anyone else have that old Scout song about friends running through their head? How about the Friends theme song? No? Just me? Cool cool, just checking. From murder friends to manga friends, book clubs with friends and friends in space, we’ve got platonic soulmate stories for everyone from the littles to the grownups. You can even take a quiz and find out which Literary Friendship you and your bestie(s) match up with.

For all those who are a “rainbow in someone else’s cloud,” to paraphrase Dr. Maya Angelou, we are grateful—not to mention our literary friends, who keep us company when we can’t see our IRL friends. And who knows, maybe you’ll find more of the latter in today’s posts! Happy reading.