A field guide to blooks.

A blook is a book that grew out of a blog — a diary, a serial, a cooking log that one day noticed it had become a manuscript. The word is older than you'd guess; there was even a prize for them, briefly, in the 2000s. The prize died. The form didn't.

This site is a catalogue of the ones worth your evenings. It has been kept, slowly, since 2016 — first as a shared bookmarks file, then a wiki, now these pages. There are no rankings and no affiliate anything. Just a shelf, some notes, and an opinionated FAQ.

Start here

If you're new to the form, begin with The Allotment Letters on the shelf — it's the entry I hand to people who think "internet writing" means threads. If you already read serials, go straight to the FAQ to see what counts as a blook here and what doesn't (newsletters: it's complicated).

Suggest one

The shelf grows by recommendation. Write to [email protected] with the title and where it lives; see the FAQ for the two rules before you do. I read everything, eventually — this is a hobby with a day job attached.