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You've GOT to Read This Book!: 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life

10 best books like You've GOT to Read This Book!: 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life (Jack Canfield): Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, 500 Great Books By Women, Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read, Read, Remember, Recommend (A Reading Journal for Book Lovers), At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries, Curiosities of Literature, A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict, A Family of Readers: The Book Lover's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature, Buried in Books: A Reader's Anthology, Memoirs of a Bookbat

Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
AuthorAnne Fadiman
ISBN0374530548
Is a book the same book—or a reader the same reader—the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.

The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book Ex Libris will find this volume...
500 Great Books By Women
AuthorErica Bauermeister
ISBN0140175903
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...
Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read
AuthorHoward Mittelmark
ISBN0061856037
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...
Read, Remember, Recommend (A Reading Journal for Book Lovers)
AuthorRachelle Rogers Knight
ISBN1402237189
The ultimate organizing resource for book-lovers and a self-published hit, Read, Remember, Recommend gives readers a one-stop shop to keep track of their reading. Featuring 60 cross-referenced lists of literary awards and notable picks (Pulitzer, National Book Award, 100 Best Books of the Century),...
At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
AuthorEstelle Ellis
ISBN0517595001
From an elegant, curved modern library with sunny picture windows to a bedroom library with dark wood paneling; from a simple apartment with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves to the grand Rothschild library, At Home with Books shows how book lovers live with their books in every room of the house.

Includes...
Curiosities of Literature
AuthorJohn Sutherland
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
AuthorJohn Baxter
ISBN0312317263
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,...
A Family of Readers: The Book Lover's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature
AuthorRoger Sutton
ISBN0763632805
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...
Buried in Books: A Reader's Anthology
AuthorJulie Rugg
ISBN0711229236
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....
Memoirs of a Bookbat
AuthorKathryn Lasky
ISBN0152012591
Harper Jessup is an avid reader, and when her parents become “migrants for God” she must keep her books secret. As Harper grows older and realizes how valuable reading is to her, she comes to understand that her parents’ radical efforts in favor of educational censorship are related to a quest...
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them
AuthorRoxanne J. Coady
ISBN1592402100
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,...
Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books
AuthorLisa Adams
What do weight loss, evil emperors and tales of redemption have in common?
We readers have many dirty little secrets-and our bestselling books are spilling them all. We can't resist conspiratorial crooks or the number 7. We have bought millions of books about cheese. And over a million of us read...
12 Books That Changed the World
AuthorMelvyn Bragg
ISBN0340839821
When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or in the palaces of power, or even in the violence...
Great Books for Every Book Lover: 2002 Great Reading Suggestions for the Discriminating Bibliophile
AuthorThomas 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...
501 Must-Read Books
AuthorEmma Beare
ISBN0753714159
While I often agreed with the authors chosen, I did not always agree with the specific books of these chosen as their "best" works.

I also personally would have re-arranged the genre sections to have a proper non-fiction section.

..and how come we are doing SF and thrillers, but no horror...
Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds
AuthorMelissa Katsoulis
ISBN1602397945
The ultimate reader’s-guide to the works that fooled publishers, readers, and critics the world over. When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400 BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic “Heraclides is ignorant of letters”) to humiliate an academic rival, he paved the way for two...
Back to the Best Books
AuthorMarilyn Green Faulkner
ISBN1453508104
Improve your reading Improve your life.

Are you bored by bestsellers you can t remember a week later? Is your book group ready for more meaningful discussions? Have TV and movies got your brain on autopilot? Back to the Best Books explores 36 great works of literature, some that you know (Twain,...
So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
AuthorGabriel Zaid
"Gabriel Zaid's defense of books is genuinely exhilarating. It is not pious, it is wise; and its wisdom is delivered with extraordinary lucidity and charm. This is how Montaigne would have written about the dizzy and increasingly dolorous age of the Internet. May So Many Books fall into so many...
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most
AuthorRonald B. Shwartz
ISBN0425172945
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...
Book Smart: Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genius in 365 Days
AuthorJane Mallison
ISBN0071482717
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...
The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life: How to Get More Books in Your Life and More Life from Your Books
AuthorSteve Leveen
ISBN1929154178
"Perfect for all of us who can never get enough time with good books. It not only urges us to indulge deeply and often, it shows us how."-Myra Hart, professor, Harvard Business School "Readers and want-to-be readers will be encouraged by the advice to read more, more widely and more systematically."-Michael...
100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature
AuthorNicholas J. Karolides
ISBN0816040591
O istorie a cenzurii, desigur. Volumul cuprinde 4 liste de cărți.

Unele scrieri au fost interzise (și uneori distruse) - sugerează autorii - din patru pricini:

a) politice (John Milton, Areopagitica, Boris Pasternak, Doctor Jivago etc);

b) religioase (Martin Luther,...
The King's English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller
AuthorBetsy Burton
ISBN1586856871
Each chapter has a theme and each chapter ends with a list of recommended books from the independent bookshop, The King's English, based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Running throughout each chapter is the biography of the bookshop, the authors hosted, events planned, and all the things that go into owning...
Essential System Administration
AuthorÆleen Frisch
ISBN1565921275
Essential System Administration takes an in-depth look at the fundamentals of Unix system administration in a real-world, heterogeneous environment. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced administrator, you'll quickly be able to apply its principles and advice to your everyday problems.
The...
Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK
AuthorDave Mark
ISBN1430216263
Are you a programmer looking for a new challenge? Does the thought of building your very own iPhone app make your heart race and your pulse quicken? If so, then Beginning iPhone Development is just the book for you.

Assuming only a minimal working knowledge of Objective-C, and written in a friendly,...
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