The ThriftBooks Blog

By ThriftBooks Team • March 30, 2022

Since April Fools' Day is such a funny unofficial holiday, we thought it would be perfect to highlight some of our favorite funny books, joke books, and humor books available at ThriftBooks.

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By Ashly Moore Sheldon • March 29, 2022

Here at Thriftbooks, many of us identify as book lovers. But, obviously, we don’t love all books equally. In fact, most of us gravitate toward a favorite genre or two. Does what you read say something about who you are? Read on to see what your favorite genre might reveal about you.

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By ThriftBooks Team • March 27, 2022

Spring is in the air, and with the season comes a feeling of new growth, fresh starts, and regeneration. In the literary world, beloved coming-of-age books evoke similar feelings of change. These bildungsromans are often centered around a protagonist and highlight their experiences during their formative years. They are tales of growth, maturity, and enlightenment.

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By Ashly Moore Sheldon • March 24, 2022

Watching the Oscars this weekend? If so, you’ll want to catch up on the literature that served as inspiration for some of the nominated movies. Plus, we share some of our favorite book-to-screen best picture winners from the last quarter century.

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By Terry Fleming • March 22, 2022

With the debut of Ryan Murphy's The Andy Warhol Diaries on Netflix, Andy Warhol is in the spotlight again. But while this docuseries focuses on Warhol's romantic and artistic life (with excerpts taken from his actual diary, which has a 25th anniversary edition coming out in May), we wanted to highlight some of the powerful personalities who moved in and out of Warhol's life, lending their own magnetism to his mystique.

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By Ashly Moore Sheldon • March 21, 2022

The newest installment of the Downton Abbey franchise is coming out later this spring. This gives you a chance to catch up on the addictive series and the 2019 movie depicting the lives of an aristocratic British family and their servants during the post-Edwardian era of the early 20th century.

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By ThriftBooks Team • March 20, 2022

If you haven't joined the James Patterson Women's Murder Club yet, what are you waiting for? This series of novels are exciting, enticing, and full of suspense to captivate any reader.

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By Ashly Moore Sheldon • March 17, 2022

Welcome to the fourth annual ThriftBooks Novel Knockout! This year’s theme is Series Smackdown, featuring 32 spectacular series (all nominated by book lovers!). Each day, new matches have been posted for you, our dear readers, to decide the ultimate winner. And now we’re down to the final four series!

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By William Shelton • March 16, 2022

The gothic element in American literature spans many genres, and has woven an ever present thread from Washington Irving's famous equestrian, all the way down to Stephenie Meyer's interpretation of the heirs of Vlad the Impaler. Leveraging the fine works of previous generations, two Twentieth Century American authors, Stephen King, and V.C. Andrews, created characters and settings which distilled the gothic element to a rarified degree.

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By ThriftBooks Team • March 10, 2022

Ireland is no stranger to being home to literary legends, which may partly explain why it's referred to as "The Land of Saints and Scholars." With St. Patrick's Day quickly approaching, what better time to honor these literary legends and highlight some of the best Irish authors?

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