Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading Is Out Today!

One of the summer's most-anticipated books, Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick, came out today! Publisher's Weekly calls it "frequently hilarious" and, though my copy hasn't arrived yet (I loved its inspiration, though: Lizzie's Fine Lines column on Jezebel), I call it the best idea for a book I've ever heard: who doesn't find themselves paging through Are You There God, It's Me Margaret? when you go home for the holidays, and how many times have you discovered, to your delight, that a friend you just met also had all the sex parts dogeared in Clan Of The Cave Bear? Check out the table of contents: if you were a voracious reader in the '70s, '80s or '90s, you're sure to have an "Oh my god ME TOO!" moment. It's ten bucks. Let's buy it. Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler would want us to.

Comments

[Andy]

The only books I read in my 90s childhood were Animorphs and Goosebumps. It is embarrassing and I am embarrassed by it.

[jneslo]

I'm so excited that Blubber is added in there! I think I've read it around 5 times.

[rk]

Thank you so much for alerting me to this book's existence, Lindsay! My life is already significantly better for having perused like five entries of Fine Lines, and now I get to look at it in book form? gee whiz.

Unrelatedly, have you seen this (year-old, apparently) interview of Jon Hamm by his and your boyfriend, Paul Rudd? Delightful!

[iamsosorry]

I have so many friends that have no idea who I'm talking about when I mention Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Thank you for the vindication, Lindsay.

I also just wanted to say "I have so many friends."