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UPDATED Massive List of Summer Reading Lists [2015] #books #summerreading #summer2015

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Girl ReadingThat time of year where we look forward to lazy summer days, if we are fortunate enough to have vacation time, and where all sorts of summer reading lists are suggested by bloggers, publishers and media organizations. So here’s a massive list of links to summer reading lists for 2015. What books will you be inspired to read this summer?

All Ages & Popular

Children’s

Non-Fiction & Intellectual

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Finally, Someone Made Waterproof Books You Can Take In The Bath And To The Beach | HuffPo

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You’ve got your warm bath, your bubbles, your glass of cheap wine and your book club book. Was there ever a better recipe for relaxation? That is, until — plunk! No thanks to slippery fingers and that glass of cheap wine, your just-purchased novel has taken a dive.

While the stress of keeping hold of a book with pruney fingers may fit the tone of, say, a heart-pounding thriller, it doesn’t exactly allow a reader to nestle into the worlds crafted by writers like Twain and Yeats. To provide a solution to the eternal book-bath struggle, Amsterdam-based couple Jasper Jansen and Wing Weng set to work to found Bibliobath, a company in its nascent stages that aims to publish waterproof works of classic literature.

READ MORE: Finally, Someone Made Waterproof Books You Can Take In The Bath And To The Beach | HuffPo

These Female #Writers Want To Stop “Chick Lit” Being Used To Describe Work By #Women | BuzzFeed #books #diversity #genderequality

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Bestselling novelist Marian Keyes recently called the term “chick lit” derogatory, and now other female writers are expressing how much they dislike the term. READ MORE: These Female Writers Want To Stop “Chick Lit” Being Used To Describe Work By Women | BuzzFeed

Novelist Finds That #Books About #Women Don’t Win Major #Awards | Jezebel #sexism #genderequality

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We already knew that publishing is hard for women. VIDA’s annual count is a persistent reminder that, while the gender gap in publishing has begun to close, it’s still far from approaching equality.

But novelist Nicola Griffith had a feeling that it just wasn’t women writers that were underrepresented; books about women were absent as well. “I’ve been counting, subconsciously then consciously, for 20 years when I was first published and started to see how skewed the playing field was,” Griffith told Fusion. So Griffith gathered the data, and published it on her blog last week.

She found that regardless of the gender of the author, major awards overwhelming favored books about men and boys. READ MORE: Novelist Finds That Books About Women Don’t Win Major Awards | Jezebel

17 Awesome New Books You Need To Read This Summer | BuzzFeed #books

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Of the 17 books recommended, 13 are written by women! A diverse collection of stories. 17 Awesome New Books You Need To Read This Summer | BuzzFeed

21 Books From The Last 5 Years That Every Woman Should Read | HuffPo #books #women

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The one struggle of being a woman who reads is that you want to read everything. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by bestseller lists , because there just isn’t enough time in the day to read every hot new book. Between near-constant recommendations of amazing memoirs, new sequels and a terrifyingly long list of bookmarked Internet longreads, it can be stressful to choose what you should pick up next. Knowing which classics you’re missing from your reading repertoire is easy — it’s a little harder to remember what you’ve missed from three years ago.

We’ve done a little bit of the hard work for you (or maybe just increased your book stress… sorry) by pulling together a list of incredible titles from the past few years that you should add to the pile on your bedside table. These books by women are just a few of the incredible titles published recently — an exhaustive list would be hundreds of books longer. Those listed here are some of the most-discussed, thought-provoking and life-changing books from a diverse group of women writers. They make you rethink what being a feminist means, offer life advice to women of all ages, and reinforce your long-held belief that Tina and Amy should be your best friends and life coaches forever. The novels are some of the finest writing from woman authors. From lighthearted memoirs to harrowing thrillers, there’s a genre here for everyone.

Here are 21 books published in the past 5 years that all women should read. READ MORE: 21 Books From The Last 5 Years That Every Woman Should Read | Huffington Post

32 Essential Asian-American Writers You Need To Be Reading | BuzzFeed Books #books #reading #diversity

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READ: 32 Essential Asian-American Writers You Need To Be Reading | BuzzFeed Books

I recommend Vincent Lam as an Asian-Canadian writer you need to be reading!

Brooklyn Author Recreates Borges’ Library of Babel as Infinite Website | Flavorwire

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Reading this article, it struck me that the website Jonathan Basile has created would be a great premise for an MLIS student’s research paper on multimedia literacies. Or at least continue to inspire others to create online and/or virtual worlds based on ideas and settings as described in fiction.  

“When it was proclaimed that the Library contained all books, the first impression was one of extravagant happiness,” wrote Jorge Luis Borges in his classic of philosophical fiction, “The Library of Babel.” One of the most revered stories-as-thought-experiments ever committed to print, Borges’ fiction posits the Universe as a library (“composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries”) that contains every possible text. This intellectual vision, at once playful and poised, has stirred authors (like Umberto Eco and Terry Pratchett) and philosophers (W.V.O. Quine and Daniel Dennett) alike for more than 75 years.

And now it exists! Recently, Jonathan Basile, a Brooklyn author and Borgesian Man of the Book, taught himself programming so that he could recreate Borges’ Universal Library as a website. The results are confounding.

READ MORE: Brooklyn Author Recreates Borges’ Library of Babel as Infinite Website | Flavorwire.

Reese Witherspoon to Record Audiobook of Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ | Flavorwire #audiobooks #HarperLee #GoSetAWatchman

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READ MORE: Reese Witherspoon to Record Audiobook of Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ | Flavorwire.

Hey, Book World: Sexism is Way Bigger Than the Hugos | WIRED @WIRED @VIDA_lit #sexism #women #writers

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Interesting comment on sexism in the literary world specific to representation of women in the literary arts.

I am a novelist. I also have a Master’s degree from MIT. So numbers appeal to me, especially numbers that provide clear data on thorny issues, like, oh, sexism and racism in literature. READ MORE: Hey, Book World: Sexism is Way Bigger Than the Hugos | WIRED.

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