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12 Book Lists to Read Before You Read Your Next Book List
Who needs books when you can read all these amazing book lists?
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Do you love book titles, covers and cachet but hate to read? We’ve got you.
7 Books to Read After You Die
Don’t get caught at St. Christopher’s Gate without your copy of Goldfinch! (Seriously, you don’t want to know what would happen…It’s just…horrible.)
5 Books to Read During Sex
Including classics such as East of Eden and Leviticus.
500 Books Coming Out Next Week
Pretend to have read them all, just like the editors of Electric Literature!
13 Books to Read (and Finish!) While You Take a Shit
Featuring all the icons of the Beat Generation!
8 Modestly Performing Literary Novels
Check out these New York Times Okay-Sellers before they hit remainder tables
15 Intellectual Tomes No One Has Actually Read
From Henry James to Pynchon back to Henry James back to Pynchon!
16 Novels that Are Similar To Yours, But Better
Honestly, it was hard to limit this to just 16. Sorry, pal.
9 Psycho-Sexual Novels to Read Before You Hit Puberty
Including Ada, or Ardor, Charlotte’s Web and Les Liaisons dangereuses, l’illustrated
10 Novel Covers With Stock Photos of Women Gazing Longingly At Water
What’s out there in that ocean, girl? Who are you? Go ahead, read on…
11 Books That Could Really Use an Editor
Marking the great Stephen King’s 70th birthday.
12 Pulitzer-Prize Winning Books That Didn’t Deserve It
Jonathan Franzen reflects on recent trends in Pulitzer history.
35 Under 36 But Over 34: The 35 Best Novelists Who Are Exactly 35 Years-Old
Ah that golden literary age — halfway to anonymous, penniless death.
