Why Is the Midwest So Maligned?
Sarah Smarsh, author of ‘Heartland,’ on growing up poor in one of the wealthiest nation in the world Photo by specphotops on Unsplash A s a Midwesterner who...
Inflame Your Loins With The Desire for Equality
Three sexy flash fictions from New Erotica For Feminists Welcome to Recommended Reading’s Monday Commuter, our home for poetry, flash, graphic, and experimental narrative. Issue №38...
DC’s New Wonder Woman: 15 Minutes With G. Willow Willson
Many of you know G. Willow Wilson as the writer who transitioned the character of Ms. Marvel from a blonde, bathing-suit clad Carol Danvers to our...
6 Classic Christmas Children’s Books That Need To Be Made Into Movies
This weekend, the third…yes, the third…film based on Dr. Seuss’s classic book How the Grinch Stole Christmas hit theaters. The third. Grinch movie. I think I speak for...
To the Book That Ended My Reading Slump
Dear Book That Reminded Me That I Love Reading, Thank you. Reading slumps are literally the worst. Whether it’s because you get too busy to read,...
Remembrance Day Books to End War
On Sunday, 11th November, 2018, much of the world observed Remembrance Sunday, a day set aside every year for the past hundred years to remember and...
Used Bookshelves: Where to Find Them
Are you looking to buy used bookshelves? Or are you trying to figure out what to do with your old bookshelves? In this day and age...
70+ Hilarious Book Puns To Make You Laugh and Groan
My father-in-law and I have one big thing in common: our unabashed love of really terrible puns. The worse they are and the bigger groans they...
How to Keep People Coming Back To Your Little Free Library
I have been the proud owner and steward of Heather’s Little Free Library for three years. I had long wanted one and my sweet husband bought...
The 50 Most Common TBR Books, According To Goodreads Users
In honor of Book Riot’s release of TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations (it’s like StitchFix, but for book recommendations so instantly 1000% more awesome), I dug into...
