Trivial Pursuits: Women Readers, Materialist Feminism, and A New Life of Bookishness in the Twenty-First Century builds on book historical and feminist ethnographic research on reading communities in the 1980s and 1990s to ask how (women) readers experience romance novels and other purportedly low-brow literary forms in the twenty-first century. I revise this question in light of the many new and emergent technologies of literary production and consumption that exist in our current media ecology, including social apps, bookish sites, and online communities. I am especially interested in the way feminist, queer, and BIPOC readerships, largely shut out of high-prestige literary spaces, use books and bookishness to build alternative, counter-patriarchal cultural communities and to develop practices of reparation and resistance.