Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Books and Literature

How the fatwa changed a writer’s life

The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History

How 8 Famous Writers Chose Their Pen Names

15 Classic Children’s Books That Have Been Banned In America

The Brooklyn bookshop saving out-of-print science fiction, one ebook at a time

10 awe-inspiring flip books

A Few Tolkien-rific Facts About the Book Version of The Hobbit

20 Beautiful Private and Personal Libraries

The Complete Works: Ranking All 62 Stephen King Books

The 20 Most Beautiful Children’s Books of All Time

11 Authors Who Hated the Movie Versions of Their Books

Why Publishers Don't Fact-Check Books

The Surprising Early Jobs of Our Favorite Famous Writers

The Hardy Tree: An Early Work of a Great Novelist

40 Famous Manuscripts That Were Rejected At First

Bookish four-year-old in trouble with police over $80 worth of library fines

The 10 Biggest Book Burnings in Literary History

7 Children’s Books Written in Response to Other Books

Seven Strange Writing Rituals

25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore

The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World

The Greatest Books of All Time, as Voted by 125 Famous Authors

The Top 100 Children's Books

Top 10 Books Written Behind Bars

10 Best-Selling Books That Were Originally Rejected

Classic Novels’ First Covers

Try, Try Again: Rejection Letters Received by Bestselling Authors

Literature's Best and Booziest: 15 Authors Who Were Also Addicts

12 Books That Have (Ironically) Been Banned in the U.S.

50 books that were banned

23 Rejected Covers of Famous Books

The 100 greatest non-fiction books

15 Weird and Mysterious Books

The best 100 closing lines from books

Strange Stories Of The World's Most Famous Sleuth

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

Book bound in human skin goes on display in Devon

What Dr. Seuss Books Were Really About

Good Show Sir - Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers

Amazon seller lists book at $23,698,655.93 -- plus shipping

The Fascinating Histories Behind Your Favorite Fairy Tales

Top 20 Best Selling Children’s Books of All Time

11 Random Facts About the 11 Most Popular Dr Seuss Books

Terrifying Children's Book Art of Japanese Monsters by Gojin Ishihara

Worst title ever for a book marketed to teenage girls

15 Famous Authors With Surprising College Majors

12 Strange Book Titles You Won’t Find In The Library

4 Book Sequels to Popular Movies…Best Left Unmade?

Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project

If at First You Don’t Succeed: Very Famous Book Rejections

The Vatican Archive: the Pope's private library

After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all

Bedtime stories gone awry (really weird children’s books)

The 10 strangest books in the English language

The 16 Best Dystopian Books Of All Time

Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

Sniff test to preserve old books

Hitler's Forgotten Library

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Graham Greene

Awful Library Books

"The Lost Symbol" and the Freemasons: 8 Myths Decoded

10 Facts About Stephen King

Gay penguins book is most banned

Forgotten Books

Free Mathematics Books

25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

20 books guaranteed to warp kids' minds

Book Autopsies

The 13 Most Baffling Book Titles

The Idler - A Miscellany by Professor Solomon. Free PDF file.

A Simple Book Repair Manual

Failures of cinema - Top 10 Books That Were Better Off on Paper

20 Unusually Brilliant Bookcase and Bookshelf Designs

8 Odd Facts About Charles Dickens

The 10 Craziest How-To Books You Never Knew Existed

The Complete Literary Works of Mark Twain

Inappropriate: Excerpts from books aimed at 12 and under


Pop-up and Movable Books: A Tour Through Their History
Download free vintage children's books at the Rosetta Project

£3m book targets Russian tycoons

The Most Unusual Books of the World

5 Famous Authors and Why They Were Perverts

Things found in books

What Books Have Changed Your Life?

Butchered Title Requests

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