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19 Books You've Been Meaning to Read FOREVER. A little while ago, we asked you to confess the books you’ve always wanted to read but just never seem to get around to.

You know, the ones that stare at you from atop your TBR pile and cause you endless readerly guilt. 358 readers answered the call, listing 383 unique titles. A handful of books came up A LOT, and a lot of books came up only once. Here are the top 19 books Riot readers have been meaning to read forever. Titles marked with asterisks—15 of the 19! –also appear on the list of Riot readers’ 50 favorite novels. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (51 mentions)Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy*Ulysess by James Joyce*Moby-Dick by Herman Melville*Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace*The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.

From Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books. Isn’t it strange that we have the term “well-read” but absolutely no one can come close to defining it?

And isn’t also strange that other art forms don’t have equivalent terms for a vague sense of someone’s total experience of that form (well-seen for movies? Well-heard for music? None. 100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader. 25 books every girl should read before she turns 25. Classic literature is full of famous books about angsty teenage boys learning who they are as men.

But what about all the women? The books about women’s coming of age are not nearly as widely celebrated, but are they are JUST as significant and moving and important as all those books about boys. From young adult stories of adventure, to non-fiction graphic novels, these game-changing reads will shape how you think about being a woman — which let’s be real, is mega important. It’s time to dust off your library card and get ready to be empowered. 1. Allende spent seven years researching this novel, which she describes as a young woman’s search for self-knowledge. 50 Books that will change your life. 30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Turning 30. Best Books of 2014. Most Popular Book Lists. Naomi Baron's Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World.

Readers have been dreading the rise of e-books since before the technology even existed.

A 1991 New York Times piece predicting the imminent invention of the personal e-reader spurred angry and impassioned letters to the editor. One reader wrote in to express his worry that the new electronic books wouldn't work in the bath. Twenty-three years later, half of American adults own an e-reading device. A few years ago, Obama set a goal of getting e-textbooks into every classroom by 2017.

Florida lawmakers have passed legislation requiring public schools to convert their textbooks to digital versions. Best Books 2014 — Goodreads Choice Awards. The 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards have three rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members.

Winners will be announced December 03, 2014. Opening Round: Nov 04 - 09 Voting opens to 15 official nominees, and write-in votes can be placed for any eligible book (see eligibility below). Semifinal Round: Nov 11 - 16 The top five write-in votes in each of the categories become official nominees. 50 Must Read Australian Novels (The Popular Vote) Love Australian Literature?

Check out our poll to discover Australia’s Favourite Novelist. Click here to see the full list. So, for those who have just arrived I shall begin at the beginning. On a whim I asked the twittersphere and facebookland what they thought were the ‘must read’ Australian novels. Literature-Map - The tourist map of literature. Where to Start Reading Batgirl. While we at the Panels take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of our favorite posts from the last few months.

Enjoy our highlight reel, and we’ll be back with new stuff on Monday, January 5th. This post originally ran October 8, 2014. This week, Batgirl got herself a new creative team. With Batgirl #35, Brenden Fletcher and Cameron Stewart took on the writing duties while Babs Tarr handled the art. Can Reading Make You Happier? Several years ago, I was given as a gift a remote session with a bibliotherapist at the London headquarters of the School of Life, which offers innovative courses to help people deal with the daily emotional challenges of existence.

I have to admit that at first I didn’t really like the idea of being given a reading “prescription.” I’ve generally preferred to mimic Virginia Woolf’s passionate commitment to serendipity in my personal reading discoveries, delighting not only in the books themselves but in the randomly meaningful nature of how I came upon them (on the bus after a breakup, in a backpackers’ hostel in Damascus, or in the dark library stacks at graduate school, while browsing instead of studying). But the session was a gift, and I found myself unexpectedly enjoying the initial questionnaire about my reading habits that the bibliotherapist, Ella Berthoud, sent me. 365 Days of YA: A 2015 Reading Calendar! [INFOGRAPHIC] A book a day keeps the doctor away!

We predict that this will be your best reading year yet and to help make our prediction come true, we created the only 2015 calendar YA book lovers will ever really need. We have compiled a *full* reading list, with book recommendations for every season, month, week and day of 2015. This is our biggest infographic yet and one that will keep you going all year long! Best Young Adult Books For Grown-Ups. In honor of National Support Teen Literature Day, we've collected the best books to pick up if you're in the mood for a little young adult lit.

YA has only gotten more popular in the seven years since The Hunger Games came out in 2008. Blockbuster adaptations of stand-alone novels and series like The Fault in Our Stars, The Maze Runner, and Divergent have made YA familiar even to those who haven't picked up a book written for teens since they were a teen themselves. But just because the box office is dominated by dystopian landscapes and John Green doesn't mean that's all YA has to offer. When Holden Met Katniss: The 40 Best YA Novels. 1951, Little, Brown & Co. OK, you know about this one: Holden Caulfield, Salinger's 15-year-old protagonist on the verge of a mental breakdown, has long been considered the patron saint of teen angst. None. Order loads of insane work from the amazing Edward Lee directly from Necro Publications! Isolating the 10 scariest novels of all time is essentially impossible.

Rankings of this nature are subject. Ten Funny Books You May Not Have Read. What are the funniest books ever written? The answers always seem to be the same: Catch-22, A Confederacy of Dunces, and maybe Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In a way, these are the funniest books. None. The Best Text to Speech Tools for Teachers. Below are two of the best text to speech apps out there. These add-ons have integrated iSpeech technology which allows them to read any text you select for them. Watch the attached videos to see how each one of them works. 1- SpeakIt SpeakIt is an excellent Chrome extension that you can use to convert text into speech. It supports over 50 languages and its auto-detection functionality allows it to automatically identify the language of your text and reads it out loud for you.To use SpeakIt, install it on your Chrome from this page.After installation you will have to restart your Chrome so SpeakIt can function correctly.

Once relaunched, simply select the text that you want to be read for you then click the SpeakIt icon to to start listening. How Many Books From Oprah's Book Club Have You Read. The 10 Best Horror Books You've Never Read. Goodreads. Thug Notes - Classical Literature. Original Gangster. Culture - The 21st Century’s 12 greatest novels. 12. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002) What are the greatest novels of the opening years of this tumultuous century? In search of a collective critical assessment, BBC Culture contributor Jane Ciabattari polled several dozen book critics, including The New York Times Book Review’s Parul Sehgal, Time magazine's book editor Lev Grossman, Newsday book editor Tom Beer, Bookslut founder Jessa Crispin, C Max Magee, founder of The Millions, Booklist's Donna Seaman, Kirkus Reviews' Laurie Muchnick and many more.

We asked each to name the best novels published in English since 1 January 2000. The critics named 156 novels in all, and based on the votes these are the top 12. "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974,” Eugenides writes in the opening lines of his novel. Bibliophiles’ Mutual Aid Society: Finding time to read  Posted on 28 January 2015. Hear Kim Gordon, Co-Founder of Sonic Youth, Read From Her New Memoir, Girl in a Band. Science Fiction And Fantasy Finalists. Ya Books, Young Adults and Young Adult Books. Internet Bookshop Italia - Libri Remainder CD Dischi DVD Videogiochi Books.

AbeBooks Official Site - New & Used Books, New & Used Textbooks, Rare ... The Online Library of Books and Journals. New Spanish Books DE. Best Books 2014: Young Adult. September 24, 2015 School Library Journal. Other Great YA Books. Our reader asked: "I have read and loved all the popular YA books out there: We Were Liars, If I Stay, The Fault In Our Stars... Best Books for Teens 2014! "Where Are All The Boy Books?" You're Buying Them. The 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. Analysis of TIME Magazine’s 100 “Best” Books for “Young Adults” Most librarians love a booklist. But when major media outlets cover young adult fiction, the results are sometimes…mixed.

Best Young Adult Books. CAS – Central Authentication Service. Hollywood's 25 Most Powerful Authors. 5 Authors Who Only Wrote One Novel — Barnes & Noble Reads. It’s easy to write something bad and then never look at it again. 10 authors who are brilliant at twitter. You'd think it natural that writers would be good at Twitter – after all, words are their bread and butter. However, some authors have found themselves host to extremely boring feeds, or have misread the medium altogether, never quite understanding what a "mention" is, or a bit.ly link.

JournalTOCs. San Francisco Art Enthusiast — Following the San Francisco Art Scene. 5 Tips for Getting the Most out of Google Reader " Online RSS feed reader. Best Young Adult Fiction 2014. David Mitchell, Philip Pullman, and Margaret Atwood Contribute to the Rise of Twitter Fiction.