BOOK RIOT
The List List #41
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Our weekly round-up of the best bookish lists floating around the internet.

at Quirk Books, Top Ten Hobbit References in Popular Culture

at Huffington Post Books, 7 Rules for Bookstore Flirting

at PageViews, Books About New York Beyond the City Lines

at Smithsonian Magazine, Ten Famed Literary Figures Based on Real-Life People

at AbeBooks, Southern Discomfort, Tumultuous Literature Set in the American South

at Ink Tank, The 5 Unusual Habits of Ernest Hemingway

at Biographile, Mob Tales: Lives Under Prohibition

at io9, 10 Classic SF and Fantasy Books That Were Originally Considered Failures

at Flavorwire, 20 Books About Movies Every Film Lover Should Own

at eBookNewser, 6 Free Reading Apps for Your Kindle Fire HD

at Publishing Perspectives, Greek Books About the Economic Crisis

at Mental Floss, 11 Amazing Librarian Tattoos

at Abe Books, The Many Gorgeous Covers of Kerouac’s “On the Road”

at Wondermark, A Brief Survey of Victorian Science Fiction

at Flavorwire, 10 Underrated Books Everyone Should Read

at LitReactor, The 10 Worst-Ranked Books on Amazon

at Gadling, 10 Dublin Literary Attractions

at Writing Novels That Sell, 7 Questions Every Story Critique Should Answer

at Flavorwire, Photos of Famous Authors and Their Bicycles

at Brain Pickings, Zadie Smith’s 10 Rules of Writing

at Gadling, Beautiful and Bizarre Bookstores of the World (good images)

at Kirkus Reviews, Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books to Read With Your Kids

at Flavorwire, Vintage Photographs From Inside 10 Famous Libraries

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The List List #22

Our weekly round-up of the best bookish lists floating around the internet.

at Rolling Stone, Six Things You Didn’t Know About David Foster Wallace

at The Huffington Post, 17 Ways to “Cheat” at Scrabble

at Flavorwire, 10 Contemporary Politicians’ Favorite Books

at Biographile, Top 5 Biographies and Memoirs to Inspire Young Writers

at Salon, Books Bill Clinton Blurbed

at Flavorwire, Ten Things Martin Amis Loves to Hate

at The Huffington Post, Books About the American War on Drugs

at The Guardian, The Ten Best Contemporary African Books

at Business Insider, 5 Ways to Save Money on Textbooks

at The Atlantic, Fall Books Preview: 20 New Releases to Check Out

at The Huffington Post, The Best (or Worst) of Apocalyptic Books

at The Daily Beast, Must Reads on the Writing Life

at The New York Times’ Art Beat, Reader-Recommended School Books

at Word and Film, 8 Teen Film Versions of Classic Literature

at Flavorwire, First Edition Covers of 25 Classic Books

at NPR Books, Fanciful Fauna: 3 Tall Tales of Clever Critters

at The Huffington Post, Michiko Kakutani’s Meanest Reviews

at PWxyz, 14 Underrated Books (Readers’ Picks)

at Capital New York, Indie Booksellers’ Best New Reads

at GalleyCat, The Best Bookstores on Tumblr

at Flavorwire, Literature’s Most Desperate Housewives

At Perpetual Page Turner: 15 Books To Cure Your The Hunger Games Hangover

At MetaFilter: The 100 Greatest Mystery Novels

At Best Colleges, 50 Novels to Read When You Need a Good Laugh

At GalleyCat, The Best Bookstores on Tumblr

At Mental Floss, 23 Writers Who Were Famous by Age 23

at BuzzFeed, 10 Penguin Classics You Won’t Ever See

The List List #21
The List List #17
The List List #7

Boy does the internet like a list. And boy, does the bookish internet love a book list. Here’s a round-up of recent bookish lists that caught our attention. See previous installments here

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At LitReactor, The Top 10 Best Books…With the Worst Amazon Customer Reviews

At The Guardian, Josh Lacey’s Top 10 Pseudonymous Books

and for another take: At AbeBooks, Top 10 Books Written Under Pen Names

At Terrible Minds, 25 Ways to Earn Your Audience

At Book Page, 12 Super Story Collections

At AbeBooks, 25 Tricksters in Literature

At Tor, 5 Literary Beasts That Seem Like Science Fiction Monsters

At The Quivering Pen, 6 Short Story Collections That Blew Me Away

At Online Universities, 75 Books Every Writer Should Read

At Education.com, 9 Ways to Encourage Early Literacy

At Mental Floss, 11 Vintage Cookbooks
and finally…

At Flavorwire, Artfully Repurposed Vintage Printing Devices