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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)
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)
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)
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 Bookstagrammers and BookTubers changing the way we read - The Washington Post
We asked three book influencers about these online communities that are so warm, they feel like social media’s best. (2019)
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)
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)
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)
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)
10 of the best novels set in Spain – that will take you there | Literary trips
10 of the best novels set in Spain – that will take you there | Literary trips | The Guardian (2020)
10 of the best novels set in Greece – that will take you there | Greece holidays
10 of the best novels set in Greece – that will take you there | Greece holidays | The Guardian (2020)
10 of the best novels set in Portugal – that will take you there | Literary trips
10 of the best novels set in Portugal – that will take you there | Literary trips | The Guardian (2020)
10 of the best books set in Ireland – that will take you there | Literary trips
10 of the best books set in Ireland – that will take you there | Literary trips | The Guardian (2020)
10 of the best novels set in Germany – that will take you there | Travel
The ‘ignominy of division and joy of reunification’ are only part of the journey when exploring Germany through its fiction (2020)
10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there | Literary trips
10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there | Literary trips | The Guardian (2020)
10 of the best novels set in Russia – that will take you there | Travel
This list of novels and novellas will help you explore Russia’s vast landscapes and complex history I spent several years wandering round Russia... (2020)
How 'A Wrinkle in Time' Changed Sci-Fi | Mental Floss
Meg Murry—the time-hopping heroine at the center of Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle In Time'—transported sci-fi into a new dimension. (2015)
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)
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)
FavoBooks: Book recommendations of outstanding people
Book recommendations of famous people (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)
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)