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Barnes & Noble Undergoes a Back-to-Basics Redesign - The New York Times
As the bookstore chain mounts a comeback, it’s breaking a cardinal rule of corporate branding and store design: consistency. (2023)
Read Your Way Through São Paulo - The New York Times
Brazil’s ultra urban megacity overwhelms the landscape and the imagination. Paulo Scott recommends books that peel back its layers. (2023)
15 Bookstagrammers to follow in 2020 - She Reads
New accounts pop up every day, making it hard to keep up with who's who. With this in mind, we bring you 15 bookstagrammers you should be following... (2020)
Your Local Bookstore Wants You to Know That It’s Struggling - The New York Times
Independent booksellers are desperate for customers to return, and not just for an online reading. (2020)
The ‘Lord of the Flies’ Family Book Club
‘Lord of the Flies’ has a very odd power. It’s unnerving how books mutate. You look up from your life—from these weeks of homey terror—and find ... (2020)
Haven't read War and Peace? Now's the time to join Yiyun Li's free virtual book club
If you're feeling alone and listless, or even if you simply have a few extra hours a week all of a sudden, I've got some good news for you. Startin... (2020)
Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram. They may be the future - Fast Company
Last year, the New York Public Library released an experiment to put the full text of novels in its Instagram Stories. Today, an estimated 300,000 ... (2019)
How a Canadian Chain Is Reinventing Book Selling - The New York Times
Indigo is expanding to the United States with its new model for how a big bookstore chain can thrive in the era of online retail. (2019)
Telling the China Story: The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction
A very brief introduction to modern science fiction from the People’s Republic of China. (2019)
Nine sci-fi subgenres to help you understand the future — 2018 - Quartzy
Exploring the future beyond cyberpunk’s Neon and Noir. Writers and filmmakers are imagining the future in weird and wonderful new ways. (2018)
The Most Misread Poem in America
Everyone knows Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”—and almost everyone gets it wrong. David Orr on the popular misconceptions surrounding the icon... (2015)
Growing Up Surrounded by Books Could Have Powerful, Lasting Effect on the Mind || Smithsonian
A new study suggests that exposure to large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency in three key areas (2018)
Meet the YouTube Stars Turning Viewers Into Readers - The New York Times
Reading and writing are solitary activities; BookTube is changing that. (2018)
Publishing: How to write a bestseller.
No one knows. But a good guess is quickly. And don’t stint on the full stops | Culture. Best sellers are ignored by critics, but are immensely prof... (2023)
Science fiction’s curious ability to predict the future | Niall Ferguson - The Spectator
The pandemic is not quite over, but we are getting used to its inconveniences. What disaster will be next? An antibiotic-resistant strain of the bu... (2021)
The Most Influential Sci-Fi Books Of All Time
The most influential sci-fi books of all time examine humanity's longest-held hopes and deepest, most visceral fears. (2021)
Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time – Brain Pickings
“A life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.” (2021)
Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys | Hacker News
To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time ... (2021)
Writing books is not really a good idea - The Novelleist
The New York Times caused a stir recently when, in an article about pandemic book sales, it disclosed that “98 percent of the books that publishers... (2021)
Yes, Audiobooks Are Real Reading. Here Are the Best Ones for Kids. | EdSurge News
Tucked in, snuggled up, I still remember the hours I spent listening to my mother read aloud “The Hobbit.” I must have been about 8-years-old, and ... (2021)
Why Instagram's biggest book accounts aren't your usual influencers | Life and style | The Guardian
They stage backdrops and match book covers to flowers. But they’re also avid readers. Could they actually be living the lives they promote online? ... (2019)
14 Book Instagrams to Follow if You Love Reading as Much as We Do - Oprah
From Reese Witherspoon, to subway reviews, and mind-blowing artistic creations, we've found our favorite book Instagram accounts so you can start h... (2019)
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman (2020)
The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time
With a panel of leading fantasy authors, TIME presents the 100 most engaging, inventive and influential works of fantasy fiction. With a panel o... (2020)
10 of the best books set in Mumbai | Travel
Mumbai's extraordinary colour, energy and humanity are captured in some of the most celebrated writing of the past three decades. Malcolm Burgess, ... (2012)
10 of the best books set in India – that will take you there | Travel
Tired of narratives that obsess over spices, colours and cows on the road? These books, all by Indian writers, paint realistic pictures of the coun... (2020)
10 of the best Latin American novels – that will take you there | Literary trips
10 of the best Latin American novels – that will take you there | Literary trips | The Guardian (2020)
10 of the best books set in Japan – that will take you there | Literary trips
10 of the best books set in Japan – that will take you there | Literary trips | The Guardian (2020)
10 of the best novels about France – that will take you there | Literary trips
10 of the best novels about France – that will take you there | Literary trips | The Guardian (2020)
10 of the best novels set in Italy – that will take you there | Travel
Elena Ferrante’s Naples, Umberto Eco’s medieval mysteries, EM Forster’s Tuscany … Italy comes alive through these great books (2020)
Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe? - TEDed - Scott Peeples
Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe? - Scott Peeples (2021)
Why should you read "The Handmaid's Tale"? - TEDeD
Download a free audiobook and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: Check out Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale… (2021)
TEDed - Why should you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"? - Francisco Díez-Buzo
Download a free audiobook version of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://adbl.co/2LHl4XM Check out our ... (2018)
#575: Neil Gaiman — The Tim Ferriss Show | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from The Tim Ferriss Show on Spotify. Neil Gaiman — The Interview I've Waited 20 Years to Do | Brought to you by Athletic Gr... (2022)
At Hemingway's Home Outside Havana, Cuba | NPR Here & Now
At Hemingway's Home Outside Havana, An Effort To Preserve Artifacts Of His Life In Cuba Ernest Hemingway lived at Finca Vigía for two decades be... (2018)
Revenge of the Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lesson... (2025)
The Electric State
NPR Best Books of 2018 A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of R... (2023)
Neverwhere - by Neil Gaiman
“Neil Gaiman is undoubtedly one of the modern masters of fantasy writing....For those who have not read Neverwhere, the new edition is the one to r... (2022)
American Gods - by Neil Gaiman
Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that sh... (2022)
Coraline - by Neil Gaiman
When a young girl ventures through a hidden door, she finds another life with shocking similarities to her own. Coraline has moved to a new house w... (2022)
The Graveyard Book - by Neil Gaiman
It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard,... (2022)
Einstein's Dreams
A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, about time, relativity and physics. As th... (2021)
The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life (Stoic Philosophy Book 1)
The Manual book. Read 131 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Life's Missing Instruction Manual Epictetus (c. 50-135 CE) was br... (2021)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Meditations book. Read 7,002 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a phil... (2021)
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Complete Maus book. Read 7,135 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor'... (2020)
The Complete Persepolis (Persepolis, #1-4) by Marjane Satrapi
The Complete Persepolis book. Read 7,446 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-sellin... (2020)
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally origi... (2019)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the... (2019)
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't - by James C. Collins
To find the keys to greatness, Collins's 21-person research team read and coded 6,000 articles, generated more than 2,000 pages of interview transc... (2019)
Definitive List of 50 Books to Understand Everything in the Universe
A few weeks ago I put up a note on my LinkedIn (see above) about books that can form the building blocks to our understanding of just about everyth... (2018)
BookBub: Get ebook deals, handpicked recommendations, and author updates
Get free and bargain bestsellers for Kindle, Nook, and more, as well as updates from your favorite authors. Sign up free today, and start reading ... (2021)
Alibris - used books
Alibris is your source for new and used books, textbooks, music and movies. Alibris has been selling books, movies and music since 1997. The premi... (2020)
AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles
Discover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the ... (2021)
Open Library (books) - Developer Center / APIs
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than ... (2021)
Literati | Book Clubs
Literati is a bestselling book subscription service that offers curated book clubs for all readers. Your next chapter starts here. (2021)
The CEO Library
The books recommended by the CEOs, entrepreneurs, professionals and authors we look up to (2020)
Good Books | Books recommended by successful people
Looking for the best books to read in 2021? Discover the best book recommendations from the world's most successful, influential and interesting pe... (2021)
Most Recommended Books (website)
Find the best book recommendations by billionaires, icons, and world-class performers. (2021)
Goodreads | Meet your next favorite book
Find and read more books you’ll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. Be part of the world’s largest community of book lovers on Good... (2021)
FavoBooks: Book recommendations of outstanding people
Book recommendations of famous people (2021)