Occupational hazard of bookselling: When you look at book covers all day long, your eyes start playing tricks on you. The letters seem to rearrange themselves into other words, and the next thing you know . . .
. . . you’re seeing things. Welcome to our madness. Please enjoy some literary anagrams: alternate titles made entirely and only from the letters in the originals.
Everyone knows this classic tale of class and social striving.
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
But have you read the satisfyingly scandalous sequel?
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You’ve read the eerie book. You’ve watched the series on TV.
By Margaret Atwood
Now discover how the characters really felt about those outfits.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham believes America is a beautiful melting pot.
By Jon Meacham
We say it’s more of . . .
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Critics and readers can’t get enough of this new novel about young love and crises of faith.
By R. O. Kwon
You might say it’s about. . . forbidden fruit?
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The hit of the summer was this ensemble novel about a group of friends in Chicago.
By Rebecca Makkai
But what if it were narrated by . . .
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Were you one of the people whose lives were changed by this bestseller?
By Elizabeth Gilbert
Well, now it’s time to get out there yourself.
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We sell lots of copies of Ann’s latest novel.
By Ann Patchett
It hits pretty close to home.
Help. We can’t stop.
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