Mental Floss

Having trouble keeping track of the books in your life? Ever buy a book you’ve already read—or recommend one book when you meant another? The Curious Reader Journal for Book Lovers helps organize bulging bookshelves, provides space to record and rate titles, and helps you reflect on past favorites. The Mental Floss team also entertains and inspires bibliophiles with prize-winning book lists, quotes about writing and reading, and the tomes famous authors admire, along with guided entries such as: “My Favorite Books This Year,” “Titles Ideal for a Book Club,” “Literary Places I’d Like to Visit,” “Books I Loved as a Child,” “Who I’d Invite to a Literary Dinner Party,” “Books I Hate That Everyone Loves,” and “The Most Romantic Book I’ve Read.” The Curious Reader Journal for Book Lovers is perfect gift for Goodreads addicts, book club members, librarians and teachers, and all lovers of literature.

Readers rejoice! From Mental Floss, an online destination for more than a billion curious minds since 2001, comes the ultimate literature lovers' book. From Americanah to War and Peace, from Jane Austen to George R.R. Martin, learn surprising facts about the world’s most famous novels and novelists. The Curious Reader will delight bookworms everywhere with fascinating facts about famous authors and their works, such as George Orwell’s near-death experience during the writing of 1984; the inspiration for Pride and Prejudice’s Mr. Darcy; which famous author kept her husband’s heart after he died; the influence of psychedelics on Dune, and more. The Curious Reader also contains beloved book-related articles from 20 years of Mental Floss, including “Cat-Loving Writers,” “Famous Authors’ Unfinished Manuscripts,” “Literary Characters Based on Real People,” and “Books You Didn’t Know Were Self-Published.”

For more than twenty years, people have turned to Mental Floss to answer life s big questions, uncover fascinating facts, and read stories so interesting they can t help but share them. With more than nineteen million users a month across its website, social media, and YouTube, Mental Floss is a trusted source of odd and unusual nuggets of information. While its content has appeared in best-selling calendars and books, it has never before been presented in game form until now. Mental Floss Brain Brawl is a trivia game on steroids that involves all players with every card drawn. Featuring 400 mind-bending questions on 200 cards across eight categories Animals, Literature, History, TV and Movies, Music, Food, Language, and Knowledge the game also includes one Brain Buster card per category with three super-difficult questions worth bonus points. Perfect for families, college students, or anyone who loves fun facts, it offers a fresh and challenging way to test your knowledge.

Impress your friends, family, and coworkers with fascinating facts about favorite TV shows and test your own TV trivia knowledge with dozens of challenging and entertaining quizzes. Did you know... Succession relies on “wealth consultants” to ensure authenticity on how the richest of the rich live? A fan of The Office, after recalling the episode where Steve Carell’s character arranges a (disastrous) CPR training session, successfully performed CPR on an unconscious stranger? Fraggle Rock was the first American TV series broadcast in Russia? Learn the stories behind these obscure TV tidbits and much more! With fun trivia, challenging quizzes, and log pages for your own lists, Mental Floss: The Curious Viewer Ultimate Quiz and Trivia Book will become as indispensable for your next binge-watch as your remote control. DOZENS OF FUN AND CHALLENGING QUIZZES: Test your TV knowledge with quizzes like "Two Degrees Of" your favorite celebrities, and "Match the Quote to the Simpsons Character" TRIVIA ABOUT MORE THAN 100 TV SHOWS: Get the inside scoop, fascinating facts, and mind-boggling trivia on the greatest shows from the past 20 years, from serious dramas such as Law and Order to seriously funny comedies like Ted Lasso MAKE IT YOUR OWN: Dozens of pages with fill-in lists, such as "Shows I Want to Binge" and "My Favorite TV Quotes" to "Shows I Started but Never Finished" and "My Favorite Shows of All Time"