Walking a Literary Labyrinth
10 best books like Walking a Literary Labyrinth (Nancy M. Malone): So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading, A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books, An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World of Books, A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict, Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books, A Family of Readers: The Book Lover's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature, Second Reading: Notable and Neglected Books Revisited, Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World, Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere, Called To Question: A Spiritual Memoir
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
| Author | Sara Nelson |
| ISBN | 0425198197 |
Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, the interplay between our lives and our books is the subject of this unique memoir by well-known publishing correspondent and self-described "readaholic" Sara Nelson. From Solzhenitsyn to Laura Zigman, Catherine M. to Captain Underpants, the result is a...
| Author | Alex Beam |
| ISBN | 1586484877 |
Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial “dead white men,” are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen by intellectuals at the University of Chicago,...
An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World of Books
Little did Wendy Werris imagine that when she began a temp job at a Hollywood bookstore in 1970 at age nineteen, she had embarked on a thirty-five year career that would stretch into a journey of self-discovery and literary enlightenment. In An Alphabetical Life, Werris reflects upon how she came to...
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...
A Family of Readers: The Book Lover's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature
| Author | Roger Sutton |
| ISBN | 0763632805 |
Two of the most trusted reviewers in the field join with top authors, illustrators, and critics in a definitive guide to choosing books for children—and nurturing their love of reading.
A FAMILY OF READERS is the definitive resource for parents interested in enriching the reading lives...
Second Reading: Notable and Neglected Books Revisited
| Author | Jonathan Yardley |
| ISBN | 1609450086 |
For seven years, beginning in 2003, the Washington Post ran a series of articles by Jonathan Yardley, the subtitle of which included, "the Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past." Yardley's criteria for his selections were admirably informal: "books I remember...
| Author | Nicholas A. Basbanes |
| ISBN | 0060593245 |
Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have "made things happen" in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the...
| Author | Lauren Leto |
| ISBN | 0062070142 |
Want to impress the hot stranger at the bar who asks for your take on Infinite Jest? Dying to shut up the blowhard in front of you who’s pontificating on Cormac McCarthy’s “recurring road narratives”? Having difficulty keeping Francine Prose and Annie Proulx straight?
For all those...
| Author | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 1580511430 |
Called to Question is Sr. Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Centered around a series of conversations with spiritual writers featured in her private journal, Sr. Joan looks at the common questions or dimensions of life as we know them in our daily lives-not answers as we've...
| Author | Roxanne J. Coady |
| ISBN | 1592402100 |
With the goal of promoting literacy (and with proceeds going to the Read to Grow Foundation), here are 65 spirited testaments to the transformative power of reading from 65 distinguished contributors, as compiled by bookseller Roxanne Coady and editor Joy Johannessen.
Books change lives,...
| Author | Thomas J. Craughwell |
Can't decide what to read? Imagine a list of the greatest books described in concise, insightful and witty profiles to browse in search of the next perfect read. 2002 Great Books for Every Book Lover offers all this and more, reviewing each book with the wit and wisdom of a seasoned book critic in this unique...
This collection of more than five hundred quotations captures the wisdom and wit of the most insightful things ever said about books, spoken and written by such legendary figures as: Aeschylus; Ernest Hemingway; John Ruskin; Woody Allen; Thomas Jefferson; Charles Scribner; Maya Angelou; Franz...
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...
Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
| Author | H.J. Jackson |
| ISBN | 0300097204 |
From Pierre de Fermat to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Graham Greene, readers have related to books through the notes they write in the margins. In this pioneering book—the first to examine the phenomenon of marginalia—H.J. Jackson surveys an extraordinary range of annotated books to explore the...
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
| Author | Alberto Manguel |
| ISBN | 0300219334 |
A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries
In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France’s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom...
Women Who Love Books Too Much: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings & Prolific Pens from the Algonquin Hotel to the Ya-YA Sisterhood
| Author | Brenda Knight |
| ISBN | 1573240249 |
This book contains a series of biographical profiles of women writers from ancient times to the late 20th-century. (The book was published in 2000 when J.K. Rowling had only published 3 Harry Potter books). The book is arranged by topic: First Ladies of Literature, about women who broke the mold and...
The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing
| Author | Mayra Calvani |
| ISBN | 1933353228 |
This book was written not only with the aspiring reviewer in mind, but also for the established reviewer who needs a bit of refreshing and also for anybody--be they author, publisher, reader, bookseller, librarian or publicist--who wants to become more informed about the value, purpose and effectiveness...
Casanova Was a Librarian: A Light-Hearted Look at the Profession
What do Casanova, Pope Pius XI, Benjamin Franklin and first lady Laura Bush have in common? At one time, all were members of the librarian profession. While librarians are often stereotyped as quiet, shy ladies who wear their gray hair in a dignified bun, that doesn't reflect the variety and diversity...
An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland
| Author | Michael Dirda |
| ISBN | 0393057569 |
A funny, wistful memoir by a Pulitzer Prize--winning critic that recalls the charm of Growing Up and the tenderness of One Writer's Beginnings. "ALL THAT KID WANTS TO DO is stick his nose in a book, " Michael Dirda's steelworker father used to complain, worried about his son's passion for reading. In...
52 Life-Changing Questions from the Book of Mormon
Ready for a change in your life? Turn to the Book of Mormon! Popular authors Brad Wilcox and John Hilton III help us recognize and ponder 52 powerful Book of Mormon questions which can help us with the challenges in life. Could a simple question change your perspective?
How is it that ye have forgotten?
Have...
The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books
| Author | J. Peder Zane |
| ISBN | 0393328406 |
You'll find the answer in The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books: the ultimate guide to the world's greatest books. As writers such as Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Margaret Drabble, Michael Chabon and Peter Carey name the ten books that have meant...
| Author | Sebastian Faulks |
| ISBN | 1846079594 |
The British invented the novel, with the publication of Robinson Crusoe in 1719 marking the arrival of a revolutionary and distinctly modern form of art. But it's also true, as Sebastian Faulks argues in this remarkable book, that the novel helped invent the British: for the first time we had stories...
