“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.