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Biggest Flirt, Class Clown & Most Likely to Succeed

Announcing Oyster’s Superlative Winners

by Leigh Lucas

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Most Likely to Succeed

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

STEPHEN R. COVEY

As Aristotle once said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” While excellence might have seemed sort of annoying to our angsty teenage selves, now we probably all wish we’d raised our hands in class a little bit more. Covey’s business classic will show you how to turn good acts into habits to become more successful in your career, relationships, and just about every other aspect of your life.

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

HEIDI W. DURROW

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky has been the Seabiscuit/Airbud/Erin Brockovich of Oyster this year. Up against classic favorites like The Giverand The Perks of Being a Wallflower, this book still came out on top. This PEN/Bellwether Prize winner is debut novel from Heidi W. Durrow—fellow New Yorker, former podcast host, corporate lawyer, and Life Skills trainer (and big reader on Oyster to boot). We see this underdog victory akin to that smart new gal from second period beating out the prom court incumbents. Sure, it might not have happened often in high school, but it would have been pretty cool if it did.

Class Clown

Born Standing Up

STEVE MARTIN

You might think of Steve Martin as everyone’s mom’s favorite comedian. But the YouTube spiral you’ll go on after reading this book might teach you that—wait a second—he’s totally yours too. Paying frequent homage to his influences, from fellow comedians to magicians to lovers, this hardworking performer’s humility will show you that he’s much more than just the Class Clown—he’s also a great guy whose gags stand the test of time.

Biggest Flirt

Sex and the City

CANDACE BUSHNELL

Carrie Bradshaw is perhaps the most iconic flirt in pop culture. From Big to Aiden to that snotty Russian artist guy, Carrie’s mastery of the coy head tilt and the see-through-shirt-and-colored-bra-look meant many men were at her fingertips. And if you’ve still only experienced Sex and the City on HBO, it’s high time you visit the original. We think Candace Bushnell’s sensation’s a shoo-in for Biggest Flirt, and clearly so do you.

Most Artistic

John Lennon: The Life

PHILIP NORMAN

Here’s something to imagine—this member of the Fab Four walking the halls of your high school. Having a Beatle around could have been the difference in getting your band off the ground (or out of your mom’s basement). Be inspired by Philip Norman’s biography of John Lennon—said to be the most revealing portrait of the artist to date.

Drama Queen

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

CHELSEA HANDLER

Handler’s collection of essays is a self-deprecating homage to her ridiculous youth and the characters in it—including a dad who has her pretend to be his wife and a judgmental born-again sister. To win this superlative, she beat out a Real Housewife, Janice Dickinson, and Kanye West—Kanye West, dear reader, the same man who once said, “I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.” But we do want a book’s autograph. How do we get that?

Most Athletic

Beckham

DAVID BECKHAM, TOM WATT

Whether you were a jock or a bench-warmer, Beckham still would have crushed you in sports (and probably stolen your girlfriend, too). We applaud this honest rags-to-riches autobiography by one of the most famous living athletes for a fair win. And while we’re on the subject of winning, your faithful editors would like to take a moment to award you that Varsity Reading trophy you never got. Where was that letter for your jacket back then?

Life of the Party

The Great Gatsby

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

This mainstay of high-school curriculum is something like the greatest book of all time. And the King of the Jazz Age didn’t just write a good party scene, he could make merry with the best of them. F. Scott and Zelda resembled something very close to Gatsby and Daisy in terms of drama, dance, and consumption of mint juleps. If they’d been friends of ours in high school, it’s safe to say we’d have been attending fewer basement keggers and more starlit soirees.

A Tale of Twelve Cities

by Leigh Lucas

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Rudyard Kipling once said, “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” Respectfully Mr. Kipling, it’s our opinion that the path into the heart of a city is lined with books. So maybe you can’t catch a flight to Tel Aviv or Tokyo, but let Oyster be your passport: Ernest Hemingway will take you to Paris, Rachel Kushner to Havana, and Joseph Kanon to Istanbul. We tend to agree with Zadie Smith on this one—“I don’t really get the appeal of ‘YOLO.’ Books are my version of ‘experiences.’” Experience the world one book at a time, starting with this list.

Johannesburg

Cry, the Beloved Country

ALAN PATON

Alan Paton said that he transcribed the first sentence of his classic novel with no vision of the story that would build from it: “There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills…” Lyrical and exacting, Paton’s voice guides us as we walk these roads, knock on doors, and meet South Africans living under apartheid on a man’s search for his estranged son. We’re warned not to “love the earth too deeply,” but as we see, touch, and feel the bleak and beautiful landscape of 1940s Johannesburg, we wish he’d told us how.

Tokyo

The Devil of Nanking

MO HAYDER

It’s clear Hayder did his homework to construct this unusual and haunting historical thriller surrounding the Nanking Massacre of 1937. This Tokyo story’s got a bit of that Kill Bill vibe and a full cast of conflicting characters—from Russian twins, to gangsters, to transvestites. Suspense builds as we piece together the story from two differently authored and dated journals.

Paris

A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Responsible for every map-wielding tourist in the 6th asking for Cafe de Flore, Hemingway’s memoir is also the unparalleled artist’s love letter to Paris. He is a young writer with his career ahead of him, a young husband and father in love. “There is never any end to Paris,” he says, but we can’t help but hear the sadness in his voice, a nostalgia that suggests otherwise.

New York

Pain, Parties, Work

ELIZABETH WINDER

What happened the summer of Sylvia Plath’s 21st year, the summer things began to fall apart? As she recounted in her thinly-veiled memoir The Bell Jar: "Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself. I just bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolleybus." Elizabeth Winder’s extraordinarily well-researched non-fiction let’s us peer through the fogged surface of The Bell Jar and understand more about the glamorous and promising poet and the beginning of the end of her life.

Pyongyang

The Aquariums of Pyongyang

CHOL-HWAN KANG, PIERRE RIGOULOT

The vast majority of writers live in search of stories to put on paper. A few live such powerful stories that they must become writers. Chol-hwan Kang wrote his trauma narrative after his defection from North Korea. He recounts many of the well-kept secrets of Pyongyang, as well as his personal experiences of starvation, work camps, and the deaths of loved ones. The beautiful and disturbing memoir’s construction mirrors the memory’s handling of distress, circling around a central trauma too painful to face head-on.

Havana

Telex from Cuba

RACHEL KUSHNER

Though The Flamethrowers was Rachel Kushner’s big made-ya-look, her debut novel Telex from Cuba was also a New York Times bestseller and another read you can’t miss. Employing her trademark of shifting narration she spins a unique story about an American community in Cuba during the time period leading up to Castro’s revolution. Nazis, strippers, expats, locals, and impressionable children make for wild Havana nights.

Istanbul

Istanbul Passage

JOSEPH KANON

We can think of no better backdrop for a sometimes sinister espionage novel than Istanbul, the curious crossroad and harbor between Europe and Asia. With Kanon’s book you can examine all of the city’s bizarre contradictions—bodegas blaring pop music and mosques filled with cloak-clothed devout—without ever getting off the couch.

San Francisco

Tales of the City

ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

San Francisco announces the westbound traveler’s arrival to the land of sexual expression with streets lined in triumphant rainbow flags. It’s no wonder that Maupin’s soap-like story of experimentation and 60s and 70s hippie culture was instantly beloved by the city of its setting since its initial serialized publications in the Chronicle and Examiner. Follow Mary Anne Singleton on her sexcapades at the boarding house at 28 Barbary Lane, and you might find yourself ready to head west.

St. Petersburg

Futility

WILLIAM GERHARDIE

Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, and Graham Greene called William Gerhardie a genius. Haven’t heard of him? That’s probably because according to indie publisher Melville House, he is also one of the “underappreciated, looked askance at, or foolishly ignored” authors of the 20th century. The Slavic Jane Austen, Gerhardie’s Futility blends Russian realism with English comedy of manners.

Tel Aviv

Rhyming Life and Death

AMOS OZ

This slim satire tells of eight hours in the life of a famous Israeli writer. In a fiction about the creation of fiction we follow hilariously named “The Author” from a cafe to a reading attended by his fans. As he fields annoying questions from audience members about his work, he is simultaneously inventing stories about each of them. Fact versus fiction has never been so much fun.

Barcelona

The South

COLM TOIBIN

Sometimes the best way to see a city is through a newcomer—and Irish expat Katherine is our ears and eyes on the ground in Barcelona. She has come to paint, and, incidentally, take a Catalan lover (we think he looks a little something like this). This debut novel about love and art from the illustrious Colm Toibin is a must-read that has been praised by your editors at Oyster (holla) and Don Delillo alike.

Lisbon

Electrico W

HERVÉ LE TELLIER

When a serial killer is caught in Lisbon, Vincent Balmer, a middle-aged journalist and lovesick fool, is assigned to cover the trial. Resentfully paired up with studly photographer Antonio Flores, whose life looks nothing like Vincent’s troubled, Odyssey story, the two rove the streets for nine days, sharing secrets that uncover their interwoven lives (and loves).

Where I Read

by Leigh Lucas

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There are a lot of books on your Reading List. And on your Book Lists, and on the Book Lists of the people you follow. How will you ever get to them all? The task’s becoming insurmountable, and your time on earth is finite and life might just be meaningless after all and—whoa whoa, back up—to that part about the long list of books. Enter: Your loyal Oyster editors, here to save you from yourself, with stage hands, with a little inspiration, instruction, and mooood lighting. Our proposal is this: You don’t only need to read in that one leather armchair. Many moments of your day beg to be accompanied by some literature. Check out our list of 10 books and the 10 perfect places to read them. You might even win that next “Did you read it?” match.

Waiting at a bar: You’re waiting for your date and taking down a stiff drink. The bartender looks a little worried, but you feel loose and alluring and suddenly—yes—very smart. You continue to page through What If, learning answers to questions you never thought to ask, about love, robots, and nuclear reactors, knowing you’ll most certainly impress this latest Sir Tinder. You only swipe right when he doesn’t look like a murderer and writes something cute in the comments like, “I love tacos yo.” You wait, you drink, you read, and you are very very smart. He arrives. He is not.

At a coffee shop: You’ve got your espresso and your book. A few more Sunday afternoons posted up here and you’ll become a member of the coffee shop in-crowd to whom the barista asks personal questions. Until then, Maggie Nelson's Bluets is inspiring your next creative burst and you’re ready to catch the onslaught of words in the open notebook on the table in front of you. She writes in some combination of poetry and prose about a lost lover, a newly paraplegic friend, and her struggle with depression through an exploration of her infatuation with the color blue.

On the road: You can’t set this one down or settle down. Because until Come and Join the Dance, you hadn’t met a female Beat, and you hadn’t read a story quite like Joyce Johnson’s autobiographical fiction of friendship, sexuality, and rebellion. You roll down all the windows on the highway and stick your hand out in triumph at your brand new beatitude.

In your therapist’s office waiting room: It’s Tuesday at four. Time to haul your baggage to your shrink’s office and study its irregular patterning under the microscope. While you await your weekly dose of clarity delivered in Bob Ross tenor, you read Monkey Mind, Daniel Smith’s autobiography of living with anxiety. A beautiful, hilarious, and honest account, it reminds you you’re doing pretty ok this week, all things considered.

In bed: The world is sleeping, you are not. You pour over Adore, Doris Lessing’s breathtaking novella set in an idyllic Australian beach town where two mothers become lovers to each other’s sons. Whhhaaaaaa? Stay with us: it’s sweet and heartbreaking and, somehow, not the least bit squirmy-making. Love is love, right? Well, at least it feels that way when you read this in the privacy of your bedroom, no one leaning over your shoulder. (If you love it, see the movie, because it’s a beauty too.)

In a new city: You’re in a new place and seeing things afresh. Graffiti becomes street art, pigeons are valid wildlife. But a city’s a city and the things that get you down about urban living are common no matter how far you travel. Callousness, homelessness, and deep divide between rich and poor can be hard to bear when we see with too keen an eye. But Vonnegut never babies us, he believes in seeking the truth with empathy. And Breakfast of Champions is served up with just enough humor for us to stomach it.

In the tub: You’re planning to get pruney. Lidia Yuknavitch, a swimmer, alternates between descriptions of chaotic episodes of her life and peaceful returns to swimming in The Chronology of Water. It’s experimental in style (her words, not ours) and brutal and brave. We shouldn’t play favorites (oh, wait...) but this one’s top. It changed us Oyster editors forever and it will change you too. So you turn the HOT knob with your foot. You’re gonna be happy here for a while.

Camping: You’ve set up camp, you’re laid back, you’re smelling that wild mountain thyme. This morning’s prep included downloading a slew of books for your wifi-free, backpack-wielding weekend. Brokeback Mountain—you saw the movie once. Still, Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx’s original can’t be missed. Short—a novella—and understated, it still leaves you as vulnerable and heartbroken as Ennis and Jack.

On the subway: You read on the subway between spells of people watching. Valeria Luiselli’s debut, Faces in the Crowd, is a collage of poets, artists, strangers, and lovers. The distinction between real and imagined blurs with a narrator who lies to everyone (including us). There are ghosts on the subways, and a woman in red who becomes the object of obsession and affection like the best of missed connections. The faces in the crowd on your daily commute will never go unscrutinized again.

At work: You’ve hit inbox zero, nailed your presentation, un-jammed the printer, and berated the co-worker who’s still insisting on printing things. All before lunch! Forgotten hero that you are could use a little commiseration, and the afternoon off. Web reader open and The Eden Hunter up. It’s the story of another hero—a pigmy and his journey from Africa to North America enduring brutalities of slavery, colonization, and war. You ease up on the victim act a bit. (At least until the coffee machine breaks and your boss mentions something about Saturday.)

You Can Quote Me

10 Great Books with 10 Great Quotes on Literature

by Leigh Lucas

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Book lovers have a one track mind. We go on bookshelf-porn websites, we coo over cover designs, we crush on 400-year-old authors. (Hellooooo Willy Shakes.) Guilty. On all accounts. And a good book that takes time for a little self-referential bibliomania? What could be better? Get out an old fashioned pen and paper and prepare to scribble down a few of these great lines for your refrigerator. Here are 10 of the best quotes on the greatest love of all—the love of literature.

You or Someone Like You

CHANDLER BURR

“A book is like a person, and one's reaction to a person invariably has more to do with one's own personality and life experience than with the actual person herself.”

The Living

ANNIE DILLARD

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”

Fahrenheit 451

RAY BRADBURY

“I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name em, I ate em.”

Parnassus on Wheels

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

“I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great book shows, it is bound to make you feel small--like looking at the Big Dipper on a clear night, or seeing the winter sunrise when you go out to collect the morning eggs. And anything that makes you feel small is mighty good for you.”

A Prayer for Owen Meany

JOHN IRVING

“My life is a reading list.”

If on a winter's night a traveler

ITALO CALVINO

“Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.”

The Book of Disquiet

FERNANDO PESSOA

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

Palm Sunday

KURT VONNEGUT

“Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.”

Too Loud a Solitude

BOHUMIL HRABAL

“Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.”

Orlando

VIRGINIA WOOLF

“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.”

17 Books To Keep You Entertained Until Next Week’s “Game of Thrones”

Send a raven (or a dragon)! Whether you’re a Lannister or a Stark, here are seventeen essential tales of sorcery and sword that will certainly tide you over until you return the Seven Kingdoms again next Sunday night.

1. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

2. Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

3. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

4. Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind

5. Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb

6. The Hammer and the Blade by Paul S. Kemp

7. Tales from the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien

8. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

9. The Return of the Sorcerer by Clark Ashton Smith

10. A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

11. The Still by David Feintuch

12. The Princess Bride by William Goldman

13. Magic Casement by Dave Duncan

14. Flight of the Nighthawks by Raymond E. Feist

15. A Kingdom Besieged by Raymond E. Feist

16. Wonders of the Invisible World by Patricia A. McKillip

17. Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly

6 Very Don, Pete, Peggy, Roger, Joan & Betty Books

If you’re already jonesing for next week’s episode of “Mad Men,” we’ve got you covered. Here are six books that best match the antics of Don, Peggy, Roger, Joan, Pete, and Betty, from the bedroom to the boardroom. Sit back, pour yourself something stiff, and dig in. (Upstanding morals not guaranteed.)

DON DRAPER

1. Sin Hellcat by Lawrence Block

A 60s ad man with a Draper-esque flair for the promiscuous lives the suburban dream he’s always wanted, until the lust for more leads him astray.

PETE CAMPBELL

2. Madboy by Richard Kirshenbaum

Madboy chronicles Richard Kirshenbaum’s meteoric rise through the ranks of Madison Avenue’s hottest ad agencies. His ambition, wit, and wealth would make Pete Campbell proud (or jealous).

PEGGY OLSON

3. Burning Questions by Alix Kates Shulman

Political uprisings, counterculture, the Women’s Lib Movement–there’s a lot going on in this coming of age novel. Like Peggy, we think Zane IndiAnna is more than capable of handling whatever the ‘60s throws her way.

ROGER STERLING

4. Women by Charles Bukowski

With a sense of humor Roger would appreciate, Bukowski spins a tale of one man’s insatiable appetite for liquor, women, and wealth.

JOAN HARRIS

5. Lick Me by Cherry Vanilla

Just like Joan, Cherry Vanilla knows how to lean in to the career challenges of working in male-dominated industries. Her tell-all memoir is a good reminder that well-behaved women rarely make history.

BETTY (DRAPER) FRANCIS

6. Leftovers by Arthur Wooten

Living the perfect housewife fantasy drives Vivian, like Betty, to her breaking point, until she decides to answer to herself alone, and take control of her life.

Introducing Oyster for Android

Today, we’re excited to announce that Oyster is available on all Android devices, Kindle Fire, and Nook HD. Oyster for Android has been our number one request since we launched on iOS last year, so we couldn’t be happier to bring it to you. Let’s take a tour, shall we?

Oyster for Android is designed from the ground up, and showcases a beautiful and immersive experience that adapts to Android’s many screen sizes. We love that moving to Android has allowed us the ability to add some unique features not possible on Oyster before. You can use the volume buttons to turn the page forward or back (lefties of the world rejoice, and one handed reading for all). But that’s just the beginning.

Over the past few months, we’ve learned quite a bit about our members’ reading habits: they use Oyster for roughly 45 minutes a day, most of all on Sunday, and together read millions of pages on Oyster every day (with peaks at lunch time and late evening).

Because members are spending so much time in the reader, we’ve been working hard to make it even easier on the eyes.

So, what’s new? Typography, layouts, a refreshed color palette, and small refinements throughout. Our four themes, Standard, Nomad, Herald, and Crosby have all gotten a face-lift and are joined by the brand new Wythe, which features a high contrast, news text typeface well-suited for outdoor and beach reading. (Tips for summertime reading: while a ziploc bag may work for iOS users, we recommend keeping your phone out of the pool unless you’ve got one of these guys). Finally, because we know the Oyster reader should adapt to whatever surroundings you’re in, each theme now comes in both day and night mode.

Book detail pages have been redesigned to give you a better sense of a book before you start reading. You’ll notice new features like “read time,” the approximate time it will take to finish a book, and a fresh design that includes an adaptive color palette complementary to the cover imagery. We’ve also included more related titles and lists to this page so you can keep browsing until you find just the right book to read.

We’ve also added editor’s notes to hundreds of our top titles so you can get short, thoughtful reviews of the books we love (or don’t). Between 100 and 300 characters, these notes are there to help you make a choice about your next book as quickly as possible. This all comes from our growing editorial team–from Huffington Post, The New Yorker, NPR, The Paris Review, Poets & Writers, and more.

And there’s one more thing… These features are all rolling out today foriOS, too! This is just the start for Oyster for Android, so keep a look out for many, many updates in the coming weeks and months.

Start reading for free on Android today. Go!

Read “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” in One Sitting. We’re Serious.

Not everyone was born a speed reader. Just ask us how long it took to read Ulysses. (Actually, don’t, but we were savoring that one.) In case you want to learn to polish off a full book in an afternoon, we’ve got just the thing for you.

Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re hosting the first ever in-copyright book on Spritz. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, a RosettaBooks’ bestseller, is one you’ve probably been meaning to read (or read again). And now there’s no excuse. Spritz, a speed reading tool, allows you to read this book faster than ever before. How fast? We were hoping you’d ask.

7 things that take longer than reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People on Spritz:

Flying from New York to Bermuda
Making a successful batch of s’more cookies
Getting to inbox zero
Jogging the perimeter of Manhattan
Watching the Lord of the Rings
Getting Happy by Pharrell out of your head (and sorry, now you probably have it stuck in your head)
Reading 7 Habits of Highly Effective People the old-fashioned digital way

Become a put-together, efficient, productive person in a single afternoon! No pressure or anything. Start reading now and see what you think at oysterbooks.com/spritz.

What other books on Oyster are perfect for reading with Spritz? Share your suggestions @oyster or hello@oysterbooks.com (or just say hello!). And whether you like reading fast or slow, give Oyster a try (if you haven’t already). Unlimited books, just $9.95 per month.

Simon & Schuster Joins Oyster

Stephen King, Hemingway, and more are now yours for the reading

Earlier this month, we announced that our library had grown to over 500,000 titles. And now we’re pinching ourselves over more good news: Simon & Schuster is on Oyster! S&S brings some of our very favorite books and authors here for reading anytime, anywhere. The vastness and depth of their catalog takes our library to another level.

As Oyster’s reading community has grown and diversified, we’ve noticed some consistent trends among our members: you want Stephen King (our #1 most searched for author), you’re quite fond of Hemingway (consistently in the top 5 authors searched for), and you want even more of the best books out there. You asked for it, and we’re happy to deliver.

So imagine a metaphorical bow tied around your iPhone or iPad today: Happy May 21! Here’s King, Hemingway, and thousands upon thousands of incredible titles for you. Read on for Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, and Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. Fill your reading list with Team of Rivals, Proof of Heaven, Catch-22, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, all of Chuck Klosterman’s writing, or the best books from Colm Toibin. Trust us: there is so much more where these came from.

Hemingway once said, “I’m always reading books—as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I’ll always be in supply.” He had it right, except for one small thing: there’s no need to ration yourself here.

Reading Is Fundamental & Oyster

Today, we’re excited to announce a partnership with an organization that’s especially close to our hearts: Reading Is Fundamental. RIF is a literary non-profit working towards a more literate America.

To support that mission, we’re donating a portion of every Oyster gift subscription to RIF. When you give, we give. Pay-it-forward for a better-read America. Because whether the book’s about Mary Poppins or Marcel Proust, everyone deserves the chance to read.

Many thanks to Reading Is Fundamental from each of us here at Oyster for making the dream of this partnership a reality. And this is just the start of our involvement with reading and literary organizations like RIF. If you would like to work together to build a brighter, book-filled future, drop us a line!