December 31, 2024 at 4:35 AM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What’s the saddest or most unremittingly bleak book you’ve ever read in any genre (“complimentary,” as today’s posters like to say parenthetically)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What’s the saddest or most unremittingly bleak book you’ve ever read in any genre (“complimentary,” as today’s posters like to say parenthetically)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
January 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What’s the saddest or most unremittingly bleak book you’ve ever read in any genre (“complimentary,” as today’s posters like to say parenthetically)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What’s the saddest or most unremittingly bleak book you’ve ever read in any genre (“complimentary,” as today’s posters like to say parenthetically)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It's #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What's the best novel you've ever read that is set in a school?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What's the best novel you've ever read that is set in a school?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
June 10, 2024 at 9:22 PM
It's #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What's the best novel you've ever read that is set in a school?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What's the best novel you've ever read that is set in a school?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
If you were to choose three favorite books (in any genre) that best help us understand what “the United States of America” means, which would you choose?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
If you were to choose three favorite books (in any genre) that best help us understand what “the United States of America” means, which would you choose?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
July 3, 2026 at 7:01 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
If you were to choose three favorite books (in any genre) that best help us understand what “the United States of America” means, which would you choose?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
If you were to choose three favorite books (in any genre) that best help us understand what “the United States of America” means, which would you choose?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are the three best novels you’ve read whose titles are (or contain) the names of one or more characters within those novels?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What are the three best novels you’ve read whose titles are (or contain) the names of one or more characters within those novels?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are the three best novels you’ve read whose titles are (or contain) the names of one or more characters within those novels?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What are the three best novels you’ve read whose titles are (or contain) the names of one or more characters within those novels?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It's #BQT #BookQuestionTime (non-fiction edition) again:
What are your all-time favorite single-author essay collections (on any subjects, from any era)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What are your all-time favorite single-author essay collections (on any subjects, from any era)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
October 10, 2024 at 8:23 PM
It's #BQT #BookQuestionTime (non-fiction edition) again:
What are your all-time favorite single-author essay collections (on any subjects, from any era)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What are your all-time favorite single-author essay collections (on any subjects, from any era)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are the best non-fiction books you’ve read, in any discipline or field, about racism and bigotry?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
What are the best non-fiction books you’ve read, in any discipline or field, about racism and bigotry?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
September 12, 2024 at 3:15 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are the best non-fiction books you’ve read, in any discipline or field, about racism and bigotry?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
What are the best non-fiction books you’ve read, in any discipline or field, about racism and bigotry?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
In terms of tone and style, what are the three most decadent, ornate, baroque, lush, sumptuous, byzantine, or indulgent books you’ve ever read?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
In terms of tone and style, what are the three most decadent, ornate, baroque, lush, sumptuous, byzantine, or indulgent books you’ve ever read?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
In terms of tone and style, what are the three most decadent, ornate, baroque, lush, sumptuous, byzantine, or indulgent books you’ve ever read?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
In terms of tone and style, what are the three most decadent, ornate, baroque, lush, sumptuous, byzantine, or indulgent books you’ve ever read?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
Which daunting or monumental unread book or series do you hereby vow to read in 2026?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
Which daunting or monumental unread book or series do you hereby vow to read in 2026?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
December 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
Which daunting or monumental unread book or series do you hereby vow to read in 2026?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
Which daunting or monumental unread book or series do you hereby vow to read in 2026?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again (papal edition):
What’s your favorite “Catholic” work of fiction, and what’s your favorite “Catholic” work of non-fiction (however you’re choosing to define the term “Catholic” here)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
What’s your favorite “Catholic” work of fiction, and what’s your favorite “Catholic” work of non-fiction (however you’re choosing to define the term “Catholic” here)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
April 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again (papal edition):
What’s your favorite “Catholic” work of fiction, and what’s your favorite “Catholic” work of non-fiction (however you’re choosing to define the term “Catholic” here)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
What’s your favorite “Catholic” work of fiction, and what’s your favorite “Catholic” work of non-fiction (however you’re choosing to define the term “Catholic” here)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What’s the book you read that, upon finishing it, you thought (for whatever reasons you may wish to share), “I think I need to take a break from reading for a while”?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What’s the book you read that, upon finishing it, you thought (for whatever reasons you may wish to share), “I think I need to take a break from reading for a while”?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
March 5, 2026 at 10:08 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What’s the book you read that, upon finishing it, you thought (for whatever reasons you may wish to share), “I think I need to take a break from reading for a while”?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What’s the book you read that, upon finishing it, you thought (for whatever reasons you may wish to share), “I think I need to take a break from reading for a while”?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are the best books you’ve read (in any genre) that were written, in whole or in part, from prison?
As alway, please feel free to include cover images!
What are the best books you’ve read (in any genre) that were written, in whole or in part, from prison?
As alway, please feel free to include cover images!
March 17, 2026 at 6:40 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are the best books you’ve read (in any genre) that were written, in whole or in part, from prison?
As alway, please feel free to include cover images!
What are the best books you’ve read (in any genre) that were written, in whole or in part, from prison?
As alway, please feel free to include cover images!
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
When you hear each of the follow adjectives, which favorite books of yours (in any genre) spring to mind?
1) ferocious
2) quiet
3) decadent
4) incomparable
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
When you hear each of the follow adjectives, which favorite books of yours (in any genre) spring to mind?
1) ferocious
2) quiet
3) decadent
4) incomparable
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
July 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
When you hear each of the follow adjectives, which favorite books of yours (in any genre) spring to mind?
1) ferocious
2) quiet
3) decadent
4) incomparable
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
When you hear each of the follow adjectives, which favorite books of yours (in any genre) spring to mind?
1) ferocious
2) quiet
3) decadent
4) incomparable
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It's #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What's your favorite book, in any genre, whose title is only one syllable long? (Bonus points if you don't try to pretend that (in)definite articles in the title aren't part of the title.)
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What's your favorite book, in any genre, whose title is only one syllable long? (Bonus points if you don't try to pretend that (in)definite articles in the title aren't part of the title.)
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
February 20, 2026 at 12:45 AM
It's #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What's your favorite book, in any genre, whose title is only one syllable long? (Bonus points if you don't try to pretend that (in)definite articles in the title aren't part of the title.)
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What's your favorite book, in any genre, whose title is only one syllable long? (Bonus points if you don't try to pretend that (in)definite articles in the title aren't part of the title.)
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are the best books you’ve read (in any genre) about the “collateral” experience of civilians and non-combatants in war?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
What are the best books you’ve read (in any genre) about the “collateral” experience of civilians and non-combatants in war?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
March 26, 2026 at 7:50 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are the best books you’ve read (in any genre) about the “collateral” experience of civilians and non-combatants in war?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
What are the best books you’ve read (in any genre) about the “collateral” experience of civilians and non-combatants in war?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are the best books you’ve read, in any genre, from Caribbean writers (Haitian, Dominican, Antiguan, Cuban, Trinidadian, you name it)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
What are the best books you’ve read, in any genre, from Caribbean writers (Haitian, Dominican, Antiguan, Cuban, Trinidadian, you name it)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
May 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are the best books you’ve read, in any genre, from Caribbean writers (Haitian, Dominican, Antiguan, Cuban, Trinidadian, you name it)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
What are the best books you’ve read, in any genre, from Caribbean writers (Haitian, Dominican, Antiguan, Cuban, Trinidadian, you name it)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
It's #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are three of the best books you've read (in any genre) in which the following three elements feature prominently?
1. Willful ignorance
2. Mass delusion
3. Collaboration with evil
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What are three of the best books you've read (in any genre) in which the following three elements feature prominently?
1. Willful ignorance
2. Mass delusion
3. Collaboration with evil
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
January 21, 2026 at 5:03 PM
It's #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are three of the best books you've read (in any genre) in which the following three elements feature prominently?
1. Willful ignorance
2. Mass delusion
3. Collaboration with evil
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What are three of the best books you've read (in any genre) in which the following three elements feature prominently?
1. Willful ignorance
2. Mass delusion
3. Collaboration with evil
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It's #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What's the best book you've read *about* ancient Greek literature, tragedy, mythology, art, history, or cultures?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What's the best book you've read *about* ancient Greek literature, tragedy, mythology, art, history, or cultures?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
August 27, 2024 at 11:29 PM
It's #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What's the best book you've read *about* ancient Greek literature, tragedy, mythology, art, history, or cultures?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What's the best book you've read *about* ancient Greek literature, tragedy, mythology, art, history, or cultures?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again (love edition):
What are two of the best books you’ve ever read that, at their cores, are love stories (in any genre, and however you define “love story”)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What are two of the best books you’ve ever read that, at their cores, are love stories (in any genre, and however you define “love story”)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
February 14, 2026 at 4:03 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again (love edition):
What are two of the best books you’ve ever read that, at their cores, are love stories (in any genre, and however you define “love story”)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What are two of the best books you’ve ever read that, at their cores, are love stories (in any genre, and however you define “love story”)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
If someone were tackling a huge reading project (every Shakespeare; the whole Bible; all of Gibbon; whatever), which companion book would be the best to read alongside it—the best Virgil to the project’s Dante?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
If someone were tackling a huge reading project (every Shakespeare; the whole Bible; all of Gibbon; whatever), which companion book would be the best to read alongside it—the best Virgil to the project’s Dante?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
September 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
If someone were tackling a huge reading project (every Shakespeare; the whole Bible; all of Gibbon; whatever), which companion book would be the best to read alongside it—the best Virgil to the project’s Dante?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
If someone were tackling a huge reading project (every Shakespeare; the whole Bible; all of Gibbon; whatever), which companion book would be the best to read alongside it—the best Virgil to the project’s Dante?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It's #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are two of your favorite books *about* poetry (criticism, history, "how-to" guides for the intimidated, books written by poets about their art and their craft, you name it)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What are two of your favorite books *about* poetry (criticism, history, "how-to" guides for the intimidated, books written by poets about their art and their craft, you name it)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
December 16, 2024 at 4:17 PM
It's #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are two of your favorite books *about* poetry (criticism, history, "how-to" guides for the intimidated, books written by poets about their art and their craft, you name it)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What are two of your favorite books *about* poetry (criticism, history, "how-to" guides for the intimidated, books written by poets about their art and their craft, you name it)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
Which books (in any genre) most radically expanded or transformed your understanding of “gender”?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
Which books (in any genre) most radically expanded or transformed your understanding of “gender”?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
April 10, 2026 at 4:11 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
Which books (in any genre) most radically expanded or transformed your understanding of “gender”?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
Which books (in any genre) most radically expanded or transformed your understanding of “gender”?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
Which book in your
a) early years
b) later years
was the most eye-opening, mind-reshaping, revelatory, or transformative book you’ve ever read, in any genre?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
Which book in your
a) early years
b) later years
was the most eye-opening, mind-reshaping, revelatory, or transformative book you’ve ever read, in any genre?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
August 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
Which book in your
a) early years
b) later years
was the most eye-opening, mind-reshaping, revelatory, or transformative book you’ve ever read, in any genre?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
Which book in your
a) early years
b) later years
was the most eye-opening, mind-reshaping, revelatory, or transformative book you’ve ever read, in any genre?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
Which novels in any genre understand (or integrate, or think and work through, or absorb, or comprehend, or otherwise reckon with) the logics of capitalism in the most interesting ways?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
Which novels in any genre understand (or integrate, or think and work through, or absorb, or comprehend, or otherwise reckon with) the logics of capitalism in the most interesting ways?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
May 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
Which novels in any genre understand (or integrate, or think and work through, or absorb, or comprehend, or otherwise reckon with) the logics of capitalism in the most interesting ways?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
Which novels in any genre understand (or integrate, or think and work through, or absorb, or comprehend, or otherwise reckon with) the logics of capitalism in the most interesting ways?
As always, please feel free to include cover images.
This is also a great opportunity for a new #BQT #BookQuestionTime post, this time piggybacking on this reading list from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and @mattseybold.bsky.social:
Which other recent books would make the best additions to this list?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
Which other recent books would make the best additions to this list?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
I've taken up the call issued in these pieces by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and @mattseybold.bsky.social. I will be using many of the books on their lists (from @roopikarisam.bsky.social + many others) in my upcoming courses in close reading, research, and critical thinking. Consider doing the same!
August 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
This is also a great opportunity for a new #BQT #BookQuestionTime post, this time piggybacking on this reading list from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and @mattseybold.bsky.social:
Which other recent books would make the best additions to this list?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
Which other recent books would make the best additions to this list?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!