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A real-life detective novel, this is the story of a quest for eight mysterious books that nearly vanished from…

A.J. Jacobs assigned himself the seemingly impossible task of reading through all of the Encyclopedia Britannica…

Like most of our cultural institutions and workers, bookshops and booksellers have worked hard in the last few years to…

This is the story of the first bookmobile and how one revolutionary librarian decided if you can't bring people to the…

Patterns, instructions, and inspiring photos for bookish cross-stitch projects, from a framed Book Riot motto "Read…

Have you heard the terms structuralism and deconstruction and postmodernism but aren’t really sure what they mean?…

Plans, instructions with photo sequences, and an inspirational image gallery get you on the road to building tiny…

100 pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries, from curriculum classics like Don Quixote, Lord of the Flies,…

This fascinating, illustrated history walks you through little-known, lost, and uncompleted works of fantasy and sci fi…

This one of a kind collection belongs on the shelf of every book nerd, and contains some of the most obscure and unusual…

Fans of DIY projects and crafts will conquer their fear of failure and create their own masterpieces using this fun and…

Take the leap and try communicating only through your imagery, your art, your work. Learn to actively not think and just…

This intelligently written guide analyzes the nonsense of language, from Dr. Seuss to Lewis Carroll, and relates it to…

Whether your writing a memoir, a thriller, or a screenplay, Jane K. Cleland shows you how you to craft the next best…

For nearly five centuries, the world of book publishing remained largely static. But at the dawn of the twenty-first…

A smart, charming book of relationship advice drawn from the western literary canon, applied to the modern era of online…

Sort of a guide to writing guides, this collection of writing advice from luminaries across history, like Aristotle,…

A journal for book lovers around the world! This book has space for 100 titles, as well as having reading challenges…

In My Bookstore our greatest authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite bookstores…

There's a typewriter set up for anyone to use in Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Every day people sit down…

Are you a bookworm who's into trivia? Test (or expand) your knowledge with these 48 info-packed cards. Each…

George Orwell's dystopian sci fi classic 1984 was banned in Cuba for years...until a new translation suddenly appeared…

If you absorbed Sweet Valley High, the Babysitters Club, and Goosebumps, this smartly irreverent history will bring you…