Rock Out to These Books About Music
Book Riot has a kickass playlist of books in which music is central. From the Scott Pilgrim series to Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize–winning A Visit From the Goon Squad, they’re all books…
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Call This Playlist Ishmael
Kick your summer off right with a different kind of beach read: Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. (Okay, it’s more of a sea read than a beach read.) To put you in the…
Goodbye to Goodreads
If you’re feeling a little queasy about Amazon’s buyout of Goodreads, Book Riot has compiled a list of alternative book-based social networks. A few of them seem defunct, and one…
Strunk and White Strike Again
Strunk and White’s Elements of Style has a soft spot in all our hearts, but some of its rules—no adverbs, an incorrect definition of passive voice—are a little…idiosyncratic. If, as Constance…
The 411 on reading and crying while commuting
Embrace those subway tears, urban commuters! Busses and trains are great places to read, but how do you cope when you’re on a crowded train making limited stops and the…
And In Some Perfumes Is There More Delight
You know what Ernest Hemingway looked like and what his writing sounded like—but what did he smell like? Inspired by a perfume on Etsy called “Dead Writers,” Book Riot’s Amanda…