Book Recommendations

Notes From My (Book)shelf: Week of April 23, 2012

Roxanne Coady | Posted 04.24.2012

Roxanne Coady

Since there is an astonishing amount of information out there, I thought it might be fun to share with you items I have noticed, learned or was curious about in the past week.

YA Books Adults Will Love

Leah Konen | Posted 04.02.2012

Leah Konen

Author Joel Stein argues that adults should read books written for adults, and stay away from any book marketed to children and teens, while Lev Grossman offers a defense of the genre, praising its rich storytelling, descriptive clarity and more. Our take: Why not read for yourself and decide?

Titanic Titles for Tots and Teens (SLIDESHOW)

Rocco Staino | Posted 04.30.2012

Rocco Staino

April 14th marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Over the last century the disaster has spawned numerous books. Here is a collection of a dozen titles you and your young Titanic buffs may enjoy.

The Book We're Talking About This Week

Zoƫ Triska | Posted 02.27.2012

This is our new weekly series, The Book We're Talking About. At the start of each week, we'll tell you about a recent release that is getting a lot of...

Top 10 Young Adult Fantasy Books You Should Read

Lisa Parkin | Posted 04.16.2012

Lisa Parkin

With The Hunger Games movie coming out in March, the frenzy for young adult fiction has reached an all-time high. For those of you who still haven't read young adult books, here are a few suggestions.

Foxy Lady -- A Review of Helen Oyeyemi's Mr. Fox

Joseph Sutton | Posted 03.14.2012

Joseph Sutton

Oyeyemi excellently juggles a wide variety of narrators throughout the book, keeping the text always fresh; and stories vary greatly from sweet to foreboding and -- perhaps I am a tad bit sensitive -- sometimes horrifying.

So You Want a Career in Intelligence: The Real Reading List

Alma Katsu | Posted 11.21.2011

Alma Katsu

Intelligence work has its own particular demands and a unique culture. I often thought aspirants would be better served if we could give them a taste of what the job was really like.

Wrecking Recs: Go to the Bookstore!

Rachael Berkey | Posted 10.31.2011

Rachael Berkey

At least once a month, I get email from a friend asking for a recommendation. The friend in question has finished a book and cannot decide on what to read next. They've come to me for inspiration.

A Pandora For Books?

Zoe Triska | Posted 10.17.2011

Pandora revolutionized music listeners' experiences by recommending songs you might like based on your music preferences. Could there at last be a Pan...

Books Are Better...In Bed?

Los Angeles Times | Posted 06.25.2011

You know that joke that shows everything's better when you add "in bed" to the end? The same can be said for books, according to a report by Sony rel...

Need Advice On What To Read? Ask The Internet

nytimes.com | CLAIRE CAIN MILLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Netflix uses a software algorithm to recommend movies and Zappos uses one to recommend shoes. Now Goodreads, the social network for book lovers, is in...

HuffPost Readers' Picks

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

The new year brings the opportunity for new books. And we want to know what you're excited about reading. Yesterday we asked on Facebook and Twitter ...

Reading In Public

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

It's the ingenious way to get real life book recommendations: spying on people reading in public. You can read reviews all you like, but you will neve...

Some Recommended Titles for LGBTQ Young Adults

Sarah McCarry | Posted 05.25.2011

Sarah McCarry

No longer angst-ridden stories of encountering violent homophobia or coming out to a hateful family, plenty of young adult novels allow their queer characters to be teenagers like any other.

6 'Flashlight Worthy' Children's Books to Read After You Finish Mockingjay (PHOTOS)

Peter Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Peter Steinberg

In running Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations, we're about as expert as they come when it comes to recommending books. We offer the following short list of children's books fit for grownups.

Book Recommendations

guardian.co.uk | Posted 12.08.2011

All of this raises a number of rather disquieting existential questions. Does this mean, when a fellow book lover gives you a book you hate, the perso...

Librarian Recommends 9 Fantastic 'Under The Radar' Reads

NPR | By Diana Athill | Posted 05.25.2011

As a librarian and a reader, my goal is always to ferret out (and introduce other readers to) books -- both fiction, poetry, and nonfiction -- that ar...

The 5 Best Book Recommendation Websites

lifehacker.com | Posted 05.25.2011

It's disappointing to haul a book home from the library or shell out hard-earned cash at the bookstore only to settle in at home and find you don't en...

Book Recommendations: Harder Than You Think

Salon | Patrick Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

So many books, so little time, as coffee mugs are always telling us, so how do you decide what to read next? Most people rely on word of mouth from tr...

Want To Find New Books?

Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011

There are about 120,000 books published every year, and that's far too many for anyone to make an informed choice. You need some kind of recommendatio...

Christmas Presents 2009: Under-The-Radar Gift Books

NPR | Nancy Pearl | Posted 05.25.2011

When it comes time to take stock of the year in books, it's inevitable that a few titles will escape notice in the rush to hand out accolades. Here ar...

How Many Books Do You Read a Week?

Carole Baron | Posted 05.25.2011

Carole Baron

My only regret sometimes is that I read so many unpublished works that are submitted to me as an editor, that I don't have time to read all the published books that interest me. But I try, how I try...