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Exclusive: Cormac McCarthy To Write New James Bond Novel (In My Head)

Literature is not something to let death get in the way of a good story. Ian Fleming died nearly 50 ...

The Scarlet Letter of Snacks

People of New England and Owings Mills where Elizabeth Bastos bidest, which is not technically in New England, but under ...

When Literary Opposites Attract

People often ask me — since I’m always reading more than one book at once — how do you keep ...

Flowchart Friday: Snap Judgement Edition

(Yeah, I spell judgement like a Canadian. Deal with it.) You know how sometimes you see someone reading a book, ...

Best of Book Riot: When Used Books Attack: Banana Edition

Today is Book Riot’s half-birthday–that’s right, we’re six months old today. To celebrate, we’re running our ten most popular posts today. Hope ...

Best of Book Riot: What Would “Insert YA Heroine Here” Do?

Today is Book Riot’s half-birthday–that’s right, we’re six months old today. To celebrate, we’re running our ten most popular posts today. Hope ...

Best of Book Riot: 16 Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anybody Else

Today is Book Riot’s half-birthday–that’s right, we’re six months old today. To celebrate, we’re running our ten most popular posts ...

Flowchart Friday: Literary Troll Edition

Did you get trolled yesterday? A lot of us in the YA world did when we read Joel Stein’s NYT ...

5 More Fake Bookish Twitter Feeds I Wish Existed

As news broke last week that police had intercepted eleven pounds of marijuana headed to St. Martin’s Press from a ...

A Dude’s Guide to The Hunger Games

If you’ve been avoiding The Hunger Games novels — because they’re YA, because the protagonist is a teenage girl, because ...