The Literary Life Commonplace Book Series features the collection of official Literary Life Podcast commonplace books with a variety of designs. In the books, podcast hosts and authors Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins, and Thomas Banks guide readers in creating a commonplace habit of their own.
Whether or not you plan to participate in the Literary Life Reading Challenge, these commonplace books will inspire you in your reading life.
📚 The Literary Life Commonplace Book: Wildflowers is our cover design for 2023, and includes previous reading challenges as well as the 2023 challenge for adults and kids.
📚 The Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Book: Rainforest Sloth is our kids’ design for 2023, and includes the newest 2023 challenge, as well as previous reading challenges.
📚 Our full collection of book designs are still available, although please note that only the Wildflowers and Rainforest Sloth 2023 releases include the 2023 challenge. It’s easy to print the new challenge from TheLiterary.Life and tuck it into your classic favorite book cover, however!
Check out the classic Commonplace Book Series.
And don’t miss the Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Book Series.
Also included:
- The podcast’s annual reading challenges
- Archive episodes reading selections
- Commonplace quotations shared by the hosts
Plus!
The heart of the book includes plenty of space for readers to:
- Track their own reading
- Make their own commonplace pages
- Keep track of books they would like to read
- Write book reviews
A Look Inside
Commonplace books are personal. They become a record of your reading life–no one else’s. So they should fit your personality. The Literary Life Commonplace Books have multiple cover options and two interior looks to fit your style.
All Literary Life Commonplace books feature dot grid pages that won’t overwhelm your own writing. Index pages are provided for you to record what you place on each page. You’ll always be able to find that quote you remember writing!
The Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Books
The series also includes special editions for kids with multiple choices of book design: Ocean Life, Fairy Tale, Dragon Fire, and Colored Pencils. Each book’s interior features the same content with artwork matching the cover.
The Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Book (Ocean Life) features the Literary Life Podcast commonplace book with an enchanting seascape and a coordinating interior design. The Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Book (Fairy Tale) features the Literary Life Podcast commonplace book with the same Arthur Rackham painting as the adult Fairy cover with a coordinating interior design. The Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Book (Dragon Fire) features the Literary Life Podcast commonplace book with a fun dragon painting on the cover and a coordinating interior design. All of these commonplace books feature updated interior content that includes the 22 for 2022 Literary Life Reading Challenge. The original edition Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Book (Colored Pencils) is also still available.
In the books, Cindy Rollins, on behalf of all the podcast hosts, gives kids tips on how to use the book and how to create a commonplace habit for life.
Also included:
- The podcast’s annual kids’ reading challenge
- Pages for commonplace quotes and sketches, each page featuring a quotation from beloved selections of children’s literature
- Pages for book narrations
- Pages for book reviews
- Space to keep track of books they would like to read as well as space for readers to track their own reading.
The Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Books, like the other commonplace books, have dot grid pages, but also include some blank boxes for sketching.
The Details:
- Paperback
- Trim size: 7.5″ x 9.25″
- 142 pages
- Black-and-white interior on white pages
- Full-color matte covers
- Adult books contain commonplace pages and book review pages
- Kids books contain commonplace and sketch pages, narration pages, and book review pages