Eleanor & Park (B&N Exclusive Edition)

To melt your cold, February-bitten heart this almost-Valentine’s day, we present our favorite kissing scenes in literature—and a couple scenes so romantic, you won’t even notice the missing kiss. Back To Top

The best thing about being a reader is the way it lets you live countless lives, countless stories. Books let you leave yourself behind, becoming such a part of your worldview that sometimes you can’t remember what came first: the book or the feeling. Truly great books say things we didn’t even know we felt, or at least express them better […]

Because Rainbow Rowell’s indispensable Eleanor & Park turns two today, we’re losing ourselves inside this mix tape, first posted on the B&N Book Blog. Sometimes reading a book twelve times isn’t satisfying enough. You want to strap a phenomenal book to your heart with packing tape, assume the fetal position inside its pages, and jump inside […]

Fiction teaches us lots of things we might never need to use: how to win the Hunger Games, how to react upon learning you’re a wizard, what to do if a werewolf falls in love with you. But it also gives us life lessons we actually need, wrapped in narratives we can’t stop reading: how to empathize […]