Books and reading
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Books and reading
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Incoming Resources
- The joy of reading, 210 favorite books, plays, poems, essays, etc. : what's in them, why read them, Charles Van Doren
- By the book, writers on literature and the literary life from The New York Times Book Review, edited, and with an introduction, by Pamela Paul ; foreword by Scott Turow ; illustrations by Jillian Tamaki
- Dear Fahrenheit 451, love and heartbreak in the stacks : a librarian's love letters and breakup notes to the books in her life, Annie Spence
- Packing my library, an elegy and ten digressions, Alberto Manguel
- Where I'm reading from, the changing world of books, Tim Parks
- Wild things, the joy of reading children's literature as an adult, Bruce Handy
- Morningstar, growing up with books, Ann Hood
- Lv xing yu du shu, zhan hong zhi zhu
- Still no word from you, notes in the margin, Peter Orner
- Letter to a future lover, marginalia, errata, secrets, inscriptions, and other ephemera found in libraries, Ander Monson
- The call me Ishmael phone book, an interactive guide to life-changing books, Stephanie Kent and Logan Smalley
- What we talk about when we talk about books [book on cd], the history and future of reading, Leah Price
- The little guide to your well-read life, Steve Leveen
- The bright book of life, novels to read and reread, Harold Bloom
- How to talk about books you haven't read, Pierre Bayard ; translated from the French by Jeffrey Mehlman
- The reading strategies book, your everything guide to developing skilled readers, Jennifer Serravallo
- Bookshops, a reader's history, Jorge CarrioĢn ; translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush
- BOMB, the author interviews, edited by Betsy Sussler
- A reader's book of days, true tales from the lives and works of writers for every day of the year, Tom Nissley ; with illustrations by Joanna Neborsky
- The book that made me, edited by Judith Ridge
- Every book its reader, the power of the printed word to stir the world, Nicholas A. Basbanes
- How to read literature like a professor, a lively and entertaining guide to reading between the lines, Thomas C. Foster
- Books that have made history, books that can change your life, J. Rufus Fears
- Am I alone here?, notes on living to read and reading to live, Peter Orner ; illustrations by Eric Orner
- What we see when we read, a phenomenology ; with illustrations, Peter Mendelsund
- Browse, the world in bookshops, edited by Henry Hitchings
- The case for books, past, present, and future, Robert Darnton
- The art of reading, Professor Timothy Spurgin
- I met a traveller in an antique land, Connie Willis
- Bookstores, a celebration of independent booksellers, Horst A. Friedrichs [images], Stuart Husband [text] ; with a foreword by Nora Krug ; [translation from German, John Sykes]
- Reading & writing, a personal account, by V.S. Naipaul
- Read harder, five more years of great writing from Believer, edited by Ed Park and Heidi Julavits
- Unfinished business, notes of a chronic re-reader, Vivian Gornick
- Life sentences, literary judgments and accounts, William H. Gass
- The book of great books, a guide to 100 world classics, W. John Campbell
- One hundred great Catholic books, from the early centuries to the present, Don Brophy
- The written world, the power of stories to shape people, history, civilization, Martin Puchner
- Book by book, notes on reading and life, Michael Dirda
- Sundays at eight, 25 years of stories from C-SPAN's Q & A and Booknotes, Brian Lamb
- The madman's library, the strangest books, manuscripts and other literary curiosities from history, Edward Brooke-Hitching
- Ten years in the tub, a decade soaking in great books, Nick Hornby
- How to read novels like a professor, Thomas C. Foster
- You've got to read this book!, 55 people tell the story of the book that changed their life, [compiled by] Jack Canfield, Gay Hendricks, with Carol Kline
- More alive and less lonely, on books and writers, Jonathan Lethem ; edited and with an introduction by Christopher Boucher
- Ten windows, how great poems transform the world, Jane Hirshfield
- Great books for every book lover, 2002 great reading suggestions for the discriminating bibliophile, by Thomas J. Craughwell
- Browsings [large print], a year of reading, collecting, and living with books, Michael Dirda
- The magician's book, a skeptic's adventures in Narnia, Laura Miller
- 10 books that screwed up the world, and 5 others that didn't help, Benjamin Wiker
- What to read and why, Francine Prose
Outgoing Resources
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