More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

10 best books like More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (Nancy Pearl): More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books, The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read, Cheshire Crossing, Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books, Selected Poems, Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life, No. More. Plastic.: What you can do to make a difference – the #2minutesolution, The Life of an Unknown Man, Be Kind

More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

Author	Jen Campbell
ISBN	1472106334

Customer (holding up a book): What’s this? The Secret Garden? Well, it’s not so secret now, is it, since they bloody well wrote a book about it!

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops was a Sunday Times bestseller, and could be found displayed on bookshop counters up and down the country....

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

Author	Maureen Corrigan
ISBN	0375709037

“It’s not that I don’t like people,” writes Maureen Corrigan in her introduction to Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading. “It’s just that there always comes a moment when I’m in the company of others—even my nearest and dearest—when I’d rather be reading a book.” In this delightful...

The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read

Author	Stuart Kelly
ISBN	1400062977

In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books...

Cheshire Crossing

Author

Andy Weir

The three meet here, at Cheshire Crossing--a boarding school where girls like them learn how to cope with their supernatural experiences and harness their magical world-crossing powers.

But the trio--now teenagers, who've had their fill of meddling authority figures--aren't content...

Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books

Author	Lynne Sharon Schwartz
ISBN	0807070831

(2.5) This 1996 memoir was sparked by reading a quote from a Chinese Buddhist in a New York Times article: he suggested that reading is dangerous as it imposes others’ ideas on you and doesn’t allow you to use your own mind freely. Schwartz, of course, begs to differ. As a novelist, reading has been...

Selected Poems

Author	E.E. Cummings
ISBN	0871401541

The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets. Also featured are thirteen drawings,...

Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life

Author	Michael Dirda
ISBN	0805083383

"As warm and stimulating as a library to which one returns again and again."
—Chicago Tribune (Editor's Choice)

While books contain insights into our selves and the world, it takes a conversation—between the author and the reader, or between two readers—to bring them fully to...

No. More. Plastic.: What you can do to make a difference – the #2minutesolution

Author

Martin Dorey

Discover what you can do to save the planet from plastic.

Start now. All it takes is 2 minutes of your time.

'I read this book yesterday and I've done three things today and that is testament to Martin's brilliant vision and ideas. Now it's your turn!' Chris Packham

'Once, plastic...

The Life of an Unknown Man

Author

Andreï Makine

A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers

In The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia's past and present.

Shutov, a disenchanted writer, revisits St. Petersburg...

Be Kind

Author	Pat Zietlow Miller
ISBN	1626723214

A picture book about the power of kindness.

When Tanisha spills grape juice all over her new dress, her classmate contemplates how to make her feel better and what it means to be kind. From asking the new girl to play to standing up for someone being bullied, this moving and thoughtful story explores...