Books

For the second year, The Guardian will be running its “Not the Booker Prize” competition, where recent literary greats can compete (as nominated by Internet commentators) for this coveted prize: The prize was designed to thwart three common flaws in the real Booker Prize: your favourite book didn’t win (and if you are me you [...]

Theories about lesbian satanist gangs are a crucial starting point for any police investigation. Never trust your father. Never trust your guardian. Never trust your estranged twin sister. Never trust male police officers. You know what? Just don’t trust anyone. Except for investigative journalists. Especially if they make constant references to Pippi Longstocking or use [...]

Less Than Zero is a book that dudes like, or, in our current discourse, a good book.

Maybe it comes from being close to the target demographic of 23-year-old girls with Tumblrs, but I liked this book. It’s honest and disillusioned and insightful when it needs to be. Suck it, Time Out.

A woman is raped in the street and her attacker is found dead around the corner. The only clue found at the scene of the crime? Crisco.

JD Salinger died today at age 91, which came as a bit of a surprise, since I had no idea he was still alive.

Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan takes place in an alternate pre-WWI Europe that is as much about possible futures as it is about alternate pasts.

The way you experience a book is subjective.

124 sci-fi/fantasy books The Guardian thinks you should read.

The Hipless Boy is a little bit more silly and sexy – and a lot less pretentious – than many other graphic novels, and for that it should be applauded.