Judging a Book By Its Lover

“Leto is as funny as she is well-read; a delight for bibliophiles and wannabes alike.” —Wylie Overstreet, author of The History of the World According to Facebook Lauren Leto, humor blogger and co-author of Texts from Last Night, now offers a fascinating field guide to the hearts and minds of readers everywhere. Judging a Book by Its Lover is like a literary Sh*t My Dad Says—an unrelentingly witty and delightfully irreverent guide to the intricate world of passionate literary debate, at once skewering and celebrating great writers, from Dostoevsky to Ayn Rand to Jonathan Franzen, and all the people who read them. This provocative, smart, and addictively funny tome arose out of Leto’s popular “book porn” blog posts, and it will delight and outrage literature fans, readers of  Stuff White People Like and I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar—people obsessed with literary culture and people fed up with literary culture—in equal measure. A Field Guide for Readers: A hilarious breakdown of the hearts and minds of bookworms everywhere, from the tortured artist to the brooding academic. Literary Stereotypes: Find out what your favorite author—from Ayn Rand to Kurt Vonnegut—says about you, your bookshelf, and your dating life. Bookstore Hookups: Ten rules for finding love between the stacks, navigating public reading, and surviving the perils of being a book nerd in the wild. How to Fake It: Witty and irreverent strategies to avoid discussing plot points, speak condescendingly about the classics, and hold your own in any passionate literary debate.