8 Best-Sellers Started During National Novel Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month starts today, kicking off that time of year when the insane among us commit to writing 50,000 words…
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6 Books for People Who Love Harry Potter
Throughout the holiday season, we’re gathering books that make the perfect gifts for everyone on your list—from your mother and the…
8 Life Lessons From Diary of a Wimpy Kid
What’s the secret of success to Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series? Is it the side-splitting, overbite-laden illustrations?…
John Freeman: How to Read a Novelist
Fifty novelists open up about art, life, and the discovery of new worlds.
The Scariest Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (And That’s Saying Something)
You can keep your haunted mansions, bloody pickaxes, and phone calls coming from inside the house. When I look for…
5 Reasons We Can’t Wait to See Ender’s Game
2013 has been a pretty good year at the movies for original science-fiction—think Oblivion, Elysium, Pacific Rim, and Gravity. But…
5 Books That Predicted The Internet
Someday I’ll be able to tell my daughter that I grew up in a time before the internet, and she’ll…
The Halloween IQ Test: How Many Lines From Classic Spooky Reads Can You Identify?
From Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” to The Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat, you’ve got a range of…
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
The great chronicler of turn-of-the-century New York was also a master of the chilling tale.
10 Kinds of Bad Behavior in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who enjoy a long book based on its content, and…
7 Books for People Who Love Eat, Pray, Love
Throughout the holiday season, we’re gathering books that make the perfect gifts for everyone on your list—from your mother and the…
Our Biggest Fictional Crushes
You can keep your celluloid heartthrobs and TV hotties—give us book nerds a crush object written in black-and-white. Because all…
5 Reasons We Want to Be Like Nora Ephron When We Grow Up
“Above all, be the heroine in your life, not the victim.” When Nora Ephron died at the age of 71…
“Bananas Are Just So Personable,” and More Fun With Hyperbole and a Half’s Allie Brosh
Oh, happy day! Now we can all read one of our favorite humor blogs in the bathtub without fear of…
Four More Romance Novels You Should’ve Read YESTERDAY
So you’ve read the four books I shrieked at you about, and now you want more? Give me a minute…
The Two Hotel Francforts
The sensitively mapped tale of an affair on the eve of war is cloaked within a comedy of manners.
The Most (In)Famous Mary Sues in Fiction
Most often found lurking in the pages of fan fiction, Mary Sue inspires rage in all who read her. Afflicted…
7 Books With Death As a Character
Poor old Death, that abstract devil. When it comes to books, Death’s often the bridesmaid, rarely the deceased bride, cutting…
Paolini’s Eragon Revisited 10 Years Later
It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since the publication of Eragon, the debut novel from then-wunderkind teen writer Christopher…
The Most Frightening Stories From Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
If you were an impressionable child with an overactive imagination, Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was probably…