Visit the Invisible Library, an alphabetical list of books that exist only within other books for some (extremely!) light reading. [ via three percent ]

With Amazon's recent purchase of Shelfari, the future of the various social networking avenues for book lovers remains unclear. I'm a Goodreads man myself, as are most (according to Tim ... Read More

God has inhabited the body of a young Dinka woman in the Sudan. When she is killed in the Darfur desert, he dies along with her, and word of his ... Read More

In American Nerd, Benjamin Nugent delves into the subculture and history of the nerd, from Pride and Prejudice through the World of Warcraft and anime nerds of the present day. ... Read More

In honor of the Beijing Olympics, The Guardian gives you the opportunity to test your knowledge of Chinese Literature. My score (5 out of 10) indicates that more brushing ... Read More

We've all seen those READ posters adorned with celebrity faces in libraries and bookstores. Now you can make your own READ mini-poster at the American Library Association's (ALA) web site.

When Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore) traded the physically demanding job of running his jazz club for the sedentary routine of a professional novelist, he learned he was going ... Read More

Speaking of the Amazon Kindle, e-book readers, and how nothing will ever really replace the experience of holding an actual book in my hands, I just now downloaded and installed ... Read More

Wordless Wednesdays presents NEW political humor titles: [ via galleycat ]

The Fourth Watcher is the second novel featuring travel writer, Poke Rafferty. Set in Bangkok, it follows A Nail Through the Heart (2007), which came after a series of six ... Read More

I seem to have read a lot of Michael Chabon recently - just not the right ones. I hate it when that happens. The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon's "murder-mystery ... Read More

Fastidious author Jeffery Deaver has his ace forensic specialist and consultant for the NYPD, Lincoln Rhymes, come up against a mastermind killer who has unlimited access to the world's most ... Read More

The Online Education Database has a great list of resources for bibliophiles. Lots to peruse there, even if they didn't put LibraryThing in the Social Media section or include ... Read More

In Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World, Pulitzer-Prize winning author David Maraniss takes us to the beginning of the Olympic Games as we know them today. Maraniss looks ... Read More

Breaking Dawn, the final novel in Stephenie Meyer's best-selling Twilight saga was released this past weekend in the U.S. (and yesterday in the U.K.) to a Harry Potter-like reception, and ... Read More

Out Backward is a riveting debut from English author, Ross Raisin. Expelled from the school in town after having been accused of attempted rape, Sam Marsdyke keeps to his parents' ... Read More

Russian novelist and historian, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, died of cardiac arrest today at the age of 89. Solzhenitsyn was the author of the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ... Read More