Big Books from the 1950s
The 1950s saw the emergence of literary lights including J.D. Salinger and Jack Kerouac, authors whose books questioned the status quo and the…
The Catcher In The Rye
6 Books in Which the Parents are MIA
Parents complicate things. They force you to change clothes, insist you come home before curfew, and demand to meet the…
5 Classic Books You Need To Reread After High School
So many of the books we read in high school get an undeservedly bad rap. It’s not that they’re boring stories…
The 8 Grinchiest Characters in Literature
The holidays usually bring out the best in people, but every so often you witness the worst. That woman who…
5 Authors Who Only Wrote One Novel
It’s easy to write something bad and then never look at it again. Thousands of people did it just last month—it’s…
Perfect Celebrity Love Matches for Our Favorite Fictional Characters
In third grade, I was in love with JTT (who wasn’t?) but I also dreamed of running away with the…
The Magicians Trilogy Will Redefine Your Relationship with Fantasy
Like a lot of kids, there were times in my childhood where I was convinced some grand mistake had been…
6 Great YA Books Every Australian Teen Knows
Not only do Australian teens not get shoved into lockers or have slushies thrown in their faces during high school,…
Kickstart This: 8 Crowd-Funding Projects By Fictional Characters
This week, it was once again demonstrated that irony is not lost on the internet, when more than 5,000 people…
7 Characters We’d Like to See Living in Other Books’ Worlds
Picture it: your local coffee shop, that one time you don’t like talking about. You and your pals are gathered…
11 Fictional Characters’ New Year’s Resolutions
It’s 2014! (Thankfully Aeon the aging time vulture didn’t kidnap the baby New Year.) As the light of the dawning new…
Is 10 Too Young to Read The Catcher in the Rye?
When I was in fifth grade, my dad gave me a big stack of classic books that, in retrospect, I…
The 7 Worst Wingmen in Literature
Say you’re going out for a night on the town, and romance is on your brain. You’d be wise to…
8 Insanely Unreliable Narrators
We love us a narrator who’s insane in the membrane. Aware or unaware of their manipulations and omissions, cool and…
Our 5 Favorite Reclusive Authors
In our fame-obsessed culture, people who dodge the spotlight are so rare, they almost seem deviant. We’re drawn to them…
The 5 Books I’ve Reread the Most
In an ideal world, I would reread all of the books I consumed during my formative years in high school.…