Books

Since the advent of YouTube in 2005, vlogs have brought the concept of reality TV right into our living rooms, making well-paid internet celebrities out of "normal" people like British YouTuber Zoe Sugg — who now boasts nearly 17 million followers…

Great art can you leave you without words, and few people understand that better than María Gainza, an Argentine art critic and the author of Optic Nerve. "Rarely do the inadequacies of language become so patently obvious," her narrator thinks to…

Fall is nearly upon us once again, which means its time for new school supplies, cozy scarves, leaf piles, and pumpkin spice everything. I've picked out 15 campus set novels for people who love back-to-school season, so you can get your TBR in the…

Hannah Witton has spent her entire adult life lifting the lid on what many are too shy to talk about, and her 579 thousand YouTube followers love her for it. Over the last decade, Witton has built up a loyal following who continually come back to…

The Ripped Bodice in Los Angeles, a bookstore in the U.S. devoted to romance novels, is throwing a month-long reading party called the Great Big Romance Read. If you're not in Los Angeles, don't worry, this is a nationwide event and there are plenty…

Want to pop the question, but have no idea how to go about it? If your partner is a big ol' book-lover, consider one of these 10 marriage proposal ideas for readers. Telling someone how ardently you admire and love them has never been easier. Sure,…

Each month, the Bustle Book Club asks an author to recommend a book they think everyone should read. In August, Christina Lauren, the duo behind a number of beloved romantic comedies, including The Unhoneymooners, out now, and Twice In A Blue Moon,…

"Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space! Decadent nobles vie to serve the deathless emperor! Skeletons!" So reads the blurb, written by author Charles Stross, on the cover of Tamsyn Muir's debut novel, Gideon the Ninth. Muir…

The Handmaid’s Tale is full of warnings. More than three decades after its 1985 release, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian story has re-entered the zeitgeist, thanks to an acclaimed Hulu series and an anticipated sequel, The Testaments, due in September.…