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Genre Kryptonite: Numerical Biographies

This is a guest post from Christina Oppold. Christina believes the best reading lives are lived off the couch by turning books ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: July 10, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. [galleryview ...

A Great Big, Huge, Not Very Small at All List of Books About Books

A couple weeks back, a Riot reader who goes under the alias Anne Boleyn asked the Book Riot community to ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: July 3, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. [galleryview ...

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

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

Riot Recommendation: Books About Books

This Riot Recommendation request comes to us via Facebook from a Riot reader who goes by the (awesome) alias Anne ...

The Well-Readheads’ Long Halftime Talk [The Best Books of 2012, So Far]

LH: Here’s a bit of craziness: We are already halfway through 2012. Isn’t that insane?! It seems like I was ...

A Conversation with Salma Abdelnour

Salma Abdelnour published her first book, Jasmine and Fire: A Bittersweet Year in Beirut, this month. The memoir charts her ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: June 26, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback.  [galleryview ...

A Summer Reading List for College Freshmen

Libraries and bookstores everywhere have their special displays ready. People linger in front of the shelves trying to make sure ...