Great Gatsby was originally titled The High-Bouncing Lover. read more Halloween Charles Dickens believed in the supernatural and became a member of a ghost hunters club at age 50. read more Hanya Yanagihara, her editor, and her agent all expected that A Little Life “would not sell well”. They were all wrong. The novel was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2015, and ranked in The Guardian’s list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. read more Hardcover books are published before paperback books. read more High fantasy, or epic fantasy, a sub-genre of fantasy, is characterized by being set in an alternative world, with lots of magical elements, fantastical creatures, and unusual technology. An example of high fantasy is The Lord of the Rings, set in Middle Earth. read more Human knowledge is doubling every 12 hours. In 1945 it was doubling every 25 years. read more Hungary’s second-largest bookseller, Líra Könyv, was fined $36,000 for placing Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper, a LGBTQ+ graphic novel series, in its youth literature section, and for failing to place it in closed packaging as required by a 2021 "child protection" law. read more I read, therefore I am. read more I’d rather lose myself in a book than in a party. read more I’m armed with a kindle at work. Emotionally. read more Iceland has the highest per capita number of published writers. One in ten people in Iceland have published a book. read more Icelanders have a tradition of exchanging books as gifts on Christmas Eve and then spending the night reading. This custom is called “Jolabokaflod”, or “Christmas Book Flood” in English. read more «« « 13 14 15 16 17 » »»
Halloween Charles Dickens believed in the supernatural and became a member of a ghost hunters club at age 50. read more
Hanya Yanagihara, her editor, and her agent all expected that A Little Life “would not sell well”. They were all wrong. The novel was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2015, and ranked in The Guardian’s list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. read more
High fantasy, or epic fantasy, a sub-genre of fantasy, is characterized by being set in an alternative world, with lots of magical elements, fantastical creatures, and unusual technology. An example of high fantasy is The Lord of the Rings, set in Middle Earth. read more
Hungary’s second-largest bookseller, Líra Könyv, was fined $36,000 for placing Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper, a LGBTQ+ graphic novel series, in its youth literature section, and for failing to place it in closed packaging as required by a 2021 "child protection" law. read more
Iceland has the highest per capita number of published writers. One in ten people in Iceland have published a book. read more
Icelanders have a tradition of exchanging books as gifts on Christmas Eve and then spending the night reading. This custom is called “Jolabokaflod”, or “Christmas Book Flood” in English. read more
