The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them
10 best books like The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (Roxanne J. Coady): A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books, More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books, 500 Great Books By Women, 1001 Books for Every Mood, 501 Great Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of Literature, Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read, Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore, Curiosities of Literature, A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict
A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
| Author | Harold Rabinowitz |
| ISBN | 0812931130 |
"When I have a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothing." — --Desiderius Erasmus — Those who share Erasmus's love of those curious bundles of paper bound together between hard or soft covers know exactly how he felt. These are the people who can spend hours browsing through...
| Author | Nancy Pearl |
| ISBN | 1570614350 |
The response to Nancy Pearl's surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian and winner of the 2004 Women's National Book Award even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl's encyclopedic but discerning filter on books...
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...
| Author | Erica Bauermeister |
| ISBN | 0140175903 |
Here is an articulate guide to more than 500 books written by women, a unique resource that allows readers the joy of discovering new authors as well as revisiting familiar favorites. Organized by such themes as Art, Choices, Families, Growing Old, Growing Up, Places and Homes, Power, and Work, this...
1001 Books for Every Mood
| Author | Hallie Ephron |
| ISBN | 1598695851 |
What are you in the mood for?A little romance? Get swept away with Scarlett and Rhett, become enriched in Love in the Time of Cholera, or understand the pangs of want with Jane Eyre.A grand escape? Hit the high seas aboard Gulliver's several ships, slide down the rabbit hole alongside Alice, or shoot into...
501 Great Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of Literature
| Author | Julian Patrick |
| ISBN | 0764161342 |
Entertaining and informative, this collection of brief, informal biographies spans the centuries from Sophocles in ancient Greece to Harper Lee in America's Deep South. Along the way, readers will enjoy pithy biographical sketches of existentialists Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, French...
| Author | Howard Mittelmark |
| ISBN | 0061856037 |
Read This Next is a guide to more than 500 great books, many of which you have not yet read. (On average, 481.) After you have read even one of these books, you will be amazed you survived without it this long. Multiply that by 481, and you get a lifetime of value for just $14.99 or even more value if you don’t...
Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore
| Author | Lawrence Goldstone |
| ISBN | 0312263953 |
More than a sequel, Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore is a companion piece for Used and Rare. A delight for the general reader and book collector alike, it details the Goldstones' further explorations into the curious world of book collecting. In Slightly Chipped, they get hooked on the correspondence...
Curiosities of Literature
A witty and eclectic tour of some of the more arcane byways of literature. Illustrated throughout.
How much heavier was Thackeray’s brain than Walt Whitman’s? Which novels do American soldiers read? When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature?
In...
A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict
| Author | John Baxter |
| ISBN | 0312317263 |
In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension. Despite this, by the age of eleven Baxter had 'collected' his first book—The Poems of Rupert Brooke. He'd read the volume often,...
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...
| 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...
Buried in Books: A Reader's Anthology
| Author | Julie Rugg |
| ISBN | 0711229236 |
For bibliophiles, life is full of tricky problems: wondering whether a small trunk full of reading material can be taken on board as hand luggage; how to smuggle yet another guilty stash of tomes past the nearest and dearest. But as Julie Rugg shows in this anthology, bibliophiles are by no means new....
| Author | Nancy M. Malone |
| ISBN | 1573222461 |
Who of us doesn’t have a list of books that changed our life? Reflecting on her own reading life, Nancy Malone examines the influence of reading in how we define ourselves. Throughout, she likens the experience of reading to walking a labyrinth, itself a metaphor for our spiritual journey through...
| Author | Jack Canfield |
| ISBN | 0060891696 |
There's nothing better than a book you can't put down—or better yet, a book you'll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands. Jack Canfield, cocreator of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, and self-actualization pioneer Gay Hendricks have...
| Author | Shannon McKenna Schmidt |
| ISBN | 1426217803 |
Follow in the footsteps of much-loved authors, including Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austen, and many more. For vacationers who crave meaningful trips and unusual locales, cue National Geographic's Novel Destinations a guide for bibliophiles...
| Author | Steven Gilbar |
| ISBN | 1567920950 |
What do Emerson, Proust, Nabokov, and Calvino all have in common beyond the fact they were all great authors? They all wrote fascinating essays on the art of reading books. Steven Gilbar, a lawyer who is foremost a reader, selected and edited a delightful compilation of essays on books and reading for...
Between the Covers: The Book Babes' Guide to a Woman's Reading Pleasures
| Author | Margo Hammond |
| ISBN | 0738212296 |
With wit and wisdom, the bibliophile’s Ebert & Roeper recommend more than 600 books based on what women care about most. Between the Covers is organized around their wide-ranging curiosity—about themselves, friends and family, the larger world—and their concerns, from health to sex...
| Author | Eva Talmadge |
| ISBN | 0061997404 |
A guide to the emerging subculture of literary tattoos — a collection of 100 full-color photographs of human skin indelibly adorned with quotations and images from Pynchon to Dickinson to Shakespeare to Plath. Packed with beloved lines of verse, literary portraits, and illustrations — and statements...
The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors
Since it began in 1995, Salon.com has been showered with awards and praise. Now, its 150,000 devoted readers can devour The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors -- an all-original, A-to-Z guide to 225 of the most fascinating writers of our time, penned by an international cast of talented...
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most
| Author | Ronald B. Shwartz |
| ISBN | 0425172945 |
This book is not for the casual reader. However, if you are someone who obsesses over what to read next, authors' lives, styles of writing, and consistently have a stack of books to be read by your bed, this book is for you. It's a fascinating glimpse of why authors love their favorite books (and even more...
Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering
| Author | Wendy Lesser |
| ISBN | 0618340815 |
From the esteemed cultural critic and journalist Wendy Lesser, Nothing Remains the Same is a bibliophile's dream: a book about the pleasures and surprises of rereading, a witty, intelligent exploration of what books can mean to our lives. Compared with reading, the act of rereading is far more personal...
Book Smart: Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genius in 365 Days
| Author | Jane Mallison |
| ISBN | 0071482717 |
This is nothing more than a bound copy of any 1001/BBC Book List you can find on the internet, free. If you're still interested, definitely pick this up from your library.
'...each book comes alive with historical notes, highlights on key themes and characters, and advice on how to approach...
Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature's Most Intriguing Dedications
| Author | Marlene Wagman-Geller |
| ISBN | 0399534628 |
A fascinating look at the stories behind the dedications of 50 literary classics.
Mary Shelley dedicated Frankenstein to her father, her greatest champion. Charlotte Brönte dedicated Jane Eyre to William Makepeace Thackeray for his enthusiastic review of the book's first edition. Dostoyevsky...
