Product Description: Reading may be dead, but books are alive and well What good are books, you may be wondering, if we're not going to read them? What are we even doing in this bookstore? Not to worry! It turns out that there are literally thousands of things to do with these chunky stacks of bound tree pulp...read more

Product Description: “Provocative, challenging and witty…In challenging the line between reading and non-reading, Bayard actually whet my appetite to read more.”—USA Today With so many important books out there, and thousands more being published each year, what are we supposed to do in those inevitable social situations where we’re forced to talk about books we haven’t read? Pierre Bayard argues that it doesn’t really matter if you’ve read a book or not...read more

Product Description: “Provocative, challenging and witty…In challenging the line between reading and non-reading, Bayard actually whet my appetite to read more.”—USA Today With so many important books out there, and thousands more being published each year, what are we supposed to do in those inevitable social situations where we’re forced to talk about books we haven’t read? Pierre Bayard argues that it doesn’t really matter if you’ve read a book or not...read more

Product Description: “Provocative, challenging and witty…In challenging the line between reading and non-reading, Bayard actually whet my appetite to read more.”—USA Today With so many important books out there, and thousands more being published each year, what are we supposed to do in those inevitable social situations where we’re forced to talk about books we haven’t read? Pierre Bayard argues that it doesn’t really matter if you’ve read a book or not...read more

Product Description: “Provocative, challenging and witty…In challenging the line between reading and non-reading, Bayard actually whet my appetite to read more.”—USA Today With so many important books out there, and thousands more being published each year, what are we supposed to do in those inevitable social situations where we’re forced to talk about books we haven’t read? Pierre Bayard argues that it doesn’t really matter if you’ve read a book or not...read more

An offbeat compilation of the strangest book titles, subtitles, author names, and book descriptions ever published ranges from such colorful works as Boobs as Seen by John Henry to Obesity--Causes, Consequences and Treatment by Louis Lasagna, complemented by some of the oddest book jackets ever produced. Original. 40,000 first printing.

Product Description: "You'll never finish that here, why don't you just buy it." "I heard that this is a good one, and it's the thickest too!" Overheard at the Bookstore records the funny, ridiculous, and crazy things said in bookstores and combines black-and-white photography, capturing readers at their most compelling...read more

An entertaining selection of anecdotes, curiosities, trivia, and quizzes tests readers knowledge of literature, authors, and their works, from the Bible to Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Original. 40,000 first printing.

Product Description: Topical humor, geared to fans of SNL, Python, Leno, Letterman, Bill Maher -- political and social satire.