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Books We Love…That Are All About Books
How can a novelist go wrong when her subject is books? It’s the one topic for which all readers have a guaranteed soft spot. I’m no enemy to ereaders (or to reading on the internet, of course), but...
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Books You Should Never, Ever Bring to a First Date
Identifying yourself to a blind date by putting a rose inside a book may have gone the way of newspaper personals, but next time you meet up with a potential suitor, you can still make an impression...
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Sarah Dessen’s Summer Romance Recommendations
Bestselling YA novelist Sarah Dessen knows a thing or two about sweet and sour summer romance. To celebrate the release of her latest book, The Moon and More (out today!), about the maybe-end of a high...
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More YA Books Adults Will Love
Some of the best, most thrilling storytelling right now is unfolding in the pages of young adult books. Though once given a miss by readers old enough to vote (and by people who don’t want to be seen...
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Kristopher Jansma Writes In the B Cup Café
Novelist Kristopher Jansma gives us the scoop on his favorite place to write. His first book, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, is an inventive, genre-bending tale of a struggling writer, his more...
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Our Favorite Opening Scenes in Fiction
Ever heard of the page 69 trick? It’s said that, if you want to know whether you’ll enjoy a novel, you should turn to page 69 and start reading. If you like what you see, buy the book. But I think...
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Summer Reads, as Recommended by Fictional Characters
To help you pick your hot-weather reading wisely, we asked a few literary insiders what they recommend for beach bags and road trips this summer. And how much more insider can you get than between the...
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YA Novelist Cori McCarthy Writes at Biggby Coffee
Cori McCarthy’s debut YA novel, The Color of Rain, envisions a dystopic world that’s darker than most. Set on a brutally industrialized future Earth, whose population is being decimated by an...
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Five Books That Mix the Everyday with the Supernatural
Curtis Sittenfeld’s latest, Sisterland, follows a pair of twin psychics whose joint prediction of a coming earthquake has life-changing results—but it’s equally invested in the more universal...
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What Your Bookmark Says About You
We all know not to judge a book by its cover, but what reader hasn’t been guilty of judging someone by the book in her lap? Let’s dig a little deeper (or a little shallower, depending how you look at...
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Five Books that Inspire Great Mix Tapes
Rainbow Rowell’s brilliant Eleanor & Park revives the exquisite agony of first love—both the hand-holding, googly-eyed kind, and the strapping-on-record-store-headphones, musical-awakening kind....
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Sara Shepard’s Reading Recommendations
Sara Shepard, author of the darkly addictive Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game series, gives us her recommendations for great YA reads—heavy on intrigue and perfect for summer: 1. Shadowlands, by...
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Dan Kennedy Writes Everywhere
In Dan Kennedy’s debut novel, American Spirit, a 40-something former exec reacts to the implosion of his middle-class life in ways both expected—substance abuse, depression, halfhearted crafting—and...
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Shocking Fiction by Dangerous Women
After nearly 50 years out of print, Pamela Moore’s nihilistic bildungsroman Chocolates for Breakfast is back, in an edition bursting with extras. The book’s frank treatment of a teen girl’s...
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The Children’s Books We Still Love as Adults
Whether you’re starting a book club for your grade schooler, looking for bedtime stories that you can enjoy, too, or are just in need of a little cheap escapism, there are few sweeter thrills than...
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The Ex-Boyfriend Bookshelf
For any reader worth her salt, the road to courtship is paved with books. Books you loan, books you borrow, shelves of books you scan for red flags and common ground the first time you’re invited in....
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Our Favorite Fictional Book Nerds
Common wisdom dictates that, in order to make a geek sexy, all you have to do is remove their glasses and let down their hair. But I say that geeks already are sexy. Don’t ditch the glasses, and keep...
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Our Favorite Fictional Misfits
While the rest of the world was on royal baby watch, some of us were waiting on the naming of an equally important Brit: the lucky actor or actress who will play the 12th incarnation of the Doctor in...
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Lauren Oliver Writes at Home (And On the Move)
Lauren Oliver is the author of young adult novels including Before I Fall and the Delirium series, as well as middle-grade book The Spindlers, featuring an intrepid heroine who descends into another...
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Books That Will Drive You to Drink
Some books go best with a blanket, a couch, and a cat on your lap. Some go best with a long train ride and a pair of headphones. And some should only be paired with a cold, hard drink. Here’s a...
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