Our Editors
Elisa Ludwig Archive
1-24 of 46
Classic Teen Reads
It's hard to believe, in this age of Twilight, The Hunger Games and a mil… more »
Lois Duncan, Down a Dark Hall…
The book that forged the teen suspense genre Though Duncan has written mu… more »
Six Degrees of The Great Gatsb…
No book is a perfectly self-contained artifact. Books are more permeable … more »
Benjamin Hale, The Evolution o…
The autobiography of a chimp In this audacious, gleeful debut, Benjamin H… more »
Six Degrees of Slaughterhouse-…
No book is a perfectly self-contained artifact. Books are more permeable … more »
Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook …
A charming contemporary retelling of a Jane Austen classic Charm and wit … more »
Martin Amis, The Pregnant Wido…
A comic yet cautionary tale about the casualties of sex unhinged from fee… more »
Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivie…
A tour de force novel based on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville Reading … more »
Colum McCann, Let the Great Wo…
A death-defying feat of literary daring Colum McCann's death-defying feat… more »
Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal L…
Themes of race, class and the role of ethics in science at a seat-edger p… more »
Books That Thrill
You've seen them in airports, and on the morning commute. They're… more »
Judy Blume, Are You There God?…
The proto-YA novel Since it first appeared in 1970, Judy Blume's thir… more »
Holiday Blasphemy
As the days count down to Christmas and we're collectively whipped in… more »
Janet Evanovich, One for the M…
Like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone, Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Pl… more »
John Kennedy Toole, A Confeder…
Simply put: among the funniest books ever written An obese, flatulent 30 … more »
Ellen Ruppel Shell, Cheap…
How low, low prices destroyed the middle class There may be no such thing… more »
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side…
How the Bush Administration created new laws to fight a new kind of war H… more »
The Armchair Traveler's Bo…
Though there's no substitute for the travel experience, reading about… more »
Peter Rock, My Abandonment…
A compelling tale of a deeply strange family forever on the run In this s… more »
Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind…
The first YA novel to address homosexuality in honest terms This groundbr… more »
Sue Grafton, A Is for Alibi…
The first in Sue Grafton's long-running alphabetically titled detecti… more »
Young Adult Books Adults Will …
Sure, your dog-eared Sweet Valley Highs were thrilling in middle school, … more »
M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing…
A riveting thriller that also explores profound philosophical questions. … more »
1-24 of 46
More to Explore
International Bookshelf
By Jess Sauer, eMusic Contributor
The idea that diverse languages are a form of divine punishment, serving only to separate us, is a popular one in numerous mythologies and religious traditions. In Genesis, humanity is unified by a common tongue… more »
Recommended
- eMusic Loves McSweeney’s
- Karen Russell
- Icon: Don DeLillo
- Novelists Writing Nonfiction
- Getting Started in Audiobooks