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31 Bookish, Brainy, Beautiful Blogs for Readers

By Tracy O'Neill, Social Media Curator
November 18, 2015

November is National Blog Posting Month, so we're celebrating with some of our favorite blogs for the bibliophile. In fact,
we've rounded up enough blogs that you could read a different one every day of the month. Get your bookmarks ready.
You won't want to miss a single post.

1. Literary Hub <http://lithub.com/> : For literary event reports, a daily literary newsletter, and exciting book excerpts
2. The Guardian Books Blog <http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog> : For the best of book takes of
the UK and beyond
3. Largehearted Boy <http://blog.largeheartedboy.com/> : For the musically-inclined reader
4. Vol. 1 Brooklyn <http://www.vol1brooklyn.com/> : For the reader who wants an online literary borough
5. Electric Literature <http://electricliterature.com/> : For electrifying book lists, op-eds, and more
6. The Offing <http://theoffingmag.com/> : For those who like their reading that "challenges, experiments, provokes"
7. The Rumpus <http://therumpus.net/> : For comics, advice, interviews, and pilgrimages to the origin of Dear Sugar
8. I Love Typography <http://ilovetypography.com/> : For the font afficionado
9. The Scofield <http://thescofield.com/> :For "dialogue, for nuance, for ambiguity, for negative capability"
0. Paris Review Daily <http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/> : For your daily dose of cultural observation
1. Jacket Copy <http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/> : For book world news, opinions, and more
2. Triple Canopy <https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/> : For triple the thought-provoking
3. Poets & Writers Theater <http://www.pw.org/theater> : For the reader who wants more videos with their books
4. LRB Blog <http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/> : For the reader who can't wait two weeks for the next copy of the London
Review of Books
5. Flavorwire Books <http://flavorwire.com/category/books> : For biblio-news and biblio-lists
6. Bookforum.com <http://www.bookforum.com/> : For reviews, "syllabi" of great reads, and more
7. Page-Turner <http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner> : For the New Yorker who can't get enough books
8. The Millions <http://www.themillions.com/> : For essays, reviews, and thoughts on fiction
9. The Margins <http://aaww.org/> : For exploring Asian-American lit
0. The Review Review <http://www.thereviewreview.net/about/review-review-story> : For reviews of literary journals
1. Lapham's Quarterly Roundtable <http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/> : For tiding you over between
the quarters
2. Buzzfeed Books <http://www.buzzfeed.com/books> : For laugh-out-loud lit GIFs and more
3. Catapult <https://catapult.co/> : For everything from how-tos to community fiction
4. "How to Tell You're If You're in a Novel" <http://the-toast.net/series/how-to-tell-if-youre-in-a-novel/> : For
bookish laughs
5. Grammar Girl <http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl> : For the punctuation perfectionist
6. Lambda Literary Blog <http://www.lambdaliterary.org/> : For literary Pride
7. Book Cover Archive <http://bookcoverarchive.com/> : For the reader who knows it's what inside that counts but
that a pretty exterior never hurt
8. NYPL Blog <http://nypl.org/blog> : For the Library Lion in all of us

And a few for younger readers:

1. Read, Breathe, Relax <http://www.readbreatherelax.com/> For YA book reviews and recommendations
2. Recovering Potter Addict <http://recoveringpotteraddict.blogspot.co.uk/> : For all things Harry
3. Good Comics for Kids <http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/> : For the kid who likes images with her words