Don’t Skip This

There is a lot going on in the spy thriler Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, so take notes.

This is the definitive work of modern vampire fiction, and the best Halloween fiction appropriate for any time of the year. Have you read it or skipped it?

Pretty much everything that you know about Frankenstein is wrong.

Through dark imagery, ingenious use of flashbacks, and a razor-sharp wit, Vonnegut created a timeless commentary on war and human bloodlust that gets the point across without ever being preachy. Did you skip Slaughterhouse Five?

Why would we suggest that a guy should read a book about lovers? Perhaps because it was banned for years, its publishers taken to court, and sold out the first day the ban was lifted.

Pride and Prejudice isn’t just a book for chicks. The social commentary may be outdated, but the satire is so implicit that the narrative remains solid and humorous.

If you like the movie, then you must check out the book. Its ability to entertain with economy, its original, fully-realized characters, and its open willingness to let silence and implication do the dramatic heavy lifting…

The book was published in 1917. NASA was founded in 1958. Here is where science fiction truly becomes science fantasy..

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a book about debauchery and art. Especially that one magic painting. Did you skip this?

Surprisingly, Breakfast at Tiffany’s isn’t a book just for chicks. Capote does what all great authors do — take a half-formed truth you’ve been gnawing on and lay it out in black and white…

Why on earth would a guy wanna be caught reading a proto-feminist romance? We build a surprising case.

You don’t wear a toga, but you know what it is to be jealous and want to kill a fool… Metamorphoses is actually neither boring nor difficult. It’s a rape-happy collection of tales worth reading and rereading.

The alienated youth manifesto that’ll haunt you into adulthood.

One Hundred Years of Solitude incredibly maps the fate of a family over seven generations from innocent greatness to human cesspool.

We give it to you straight about the series of comic books that’s coming to us as a 3D film this December. Ever heard of Tintin? You have now.