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Top 8 Literary Misquotes

To celebrate Book Riot’s second birthday on Monday, we’re running some of our favorite posts from our first two years. ...

James Joyce, Portnoy’s Complaint, and the Exuberance of First Books: A Chat with Wayne Johnston

In The Son of a Certain Woman, Wayne Johnston’s Giller Prize-nominated tenth book, we meet Percy Joyce, a disfigured boy coming ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in September

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

William Faulkner in His Own Words

While William Faulkner has never faded into literary obscurity, he is a bit more front and center these days due ...

INVISIBLE MAN Lacking in Literary Merit? Really?

When the Randolph County Board of Education in North Carolina banned Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man from school libraries, they got a lot ...

Giveaway Finalists: What’s Your Secret for a Happy Relationship?

After a devastating divorce leaves Adam Colby heartbroken, he is not sure how he can put the pieces of his ...

On the “Banned” Wagon: The Month in Book Challenges

Banned Books Week is a annual “celebration” to raise awareness about books that have been challenged or banned — it’s ...

Let’s Put James Franco on All the Book Covers

Last week, when presented with the As I Lay Dying movie tie-in with James Franco on the cover, the internet let ...

Fresh Ink: September 10, 2013

HARDBACK RELEASES Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (St. Martin’s Griffin) Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a ...

Fresh Ink: September 4, 2013

Yesterday, we celebrated a Riot Reading Day in honor of the release of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam, the final book in ...