BIBLIOMANIA!:
Books By People Who Love Books for People Who Love Books
Susan Wise Bauer
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical
Education You Never Had. Norton, 2003
This guide to "classical learning" helps readers fill in the holes
in their education as it looks at great works of fiction, autobiography, history,
poetry, drama, and other genres and provides annotated listings of suggested
readings
Editors of Book
Sense
Book Sense Best Books: 125 Favorite Books Recommended
by Independent Booksellers. Newmarket, 2004.
Book Sense, a subsidiary of the American Booksellers Association composed of
more than 1,200 independent booksellers, offers its members' list of 15 favorite
adult titles and 10 children's favorites, all published in the last five years.
Robert B. Downs
Books that Changed the World. ALA,
1978.
Insightful summaries on 16 classics of political, social and economic history,
exploring the times that the books were published and shows how society was
affected by the book.
Mark Edmundson
Why Read? St. Martin’s,
2004.
How reading can actually change lives for the better, encourage the imagination,
and nourish the soul, rather than just be vehicles of training and entertaining.
Hallie Ephron
1001 Books for Every Mood. Adams,
2008.
Whether you want to laugh or cry, go on a great adventure or curl up with a
little romance, Ephron provides lots of titles (noth fiction and non-fiction)
to suit every mood.
Clifton Fadiman
& John S. Major
The New Lifetime Reading Plan. HarCol,
1997
Provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more
than 130 classics of world literature.
Thomas C. Foster
How to Read Literature like a Professor: A Lively
and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines. Quill,
2003.
Demonstrates how to make everyday reading more rewarding by helping readers
understand the symbols, themes, narrative devices and forms, and contexts of
literary works.
Robert Kanigel
Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury—A
Personal Tour of Some of the World’s Best Books. Bancroft,
1998.
Renew your acquaintance with the great literature and thought of the ages with
this list of great and near-great books.
Steve Leveen
The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life: How to
Get More Books in Your Life and More Life from Your Books. Levenger,
2005.
Inspiration and practical advice for both bibliophiles and casual readers who
want to make books a larger part of their lives and get more out what they read.
David C. Major
100 One Night Reads: A Book Lover’s Guide.
Ballantine, 2001
Books that can each be delightfully consumed in one quiet evening, from fantasy
to fiction, history to humor, mystery to memoir, by both celebrated writers
and gifted unknowns.
Sara Nelson
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate
Reading. GPPS, 2003.
A book-lover sets out to read a book a week for a year and record how what she
read integrated with the events of her life.
Nancy Pearl
Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood,
Moment, and Reason. Sasquatch, 2003
With a wide range of categories to suit every taste, librarian Pearl answers
that age-old question: “What Do I read Next”?
Noel Perrin
A Reader’s Delight. Univ.
Press of NE, 1988.
One of America's finest essayists illuminates 40 wrongfully forgotten or ignored
works of fiction and fact, prose and poetry, by all varieties of writers.
Dale Salwak
(ed.)
A Passion for Books. St. Martin’s,
1999.
A celebration of that love, a collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays,
stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons on the joys of reading, appreciating,
and collecting books.
Arthur Waldhorn,
Olga S. Weber, and Arthur Zieger (eds.)
Good Reading. Bowker, 1990.
Serious readers will appreciate this noted resource that recommends and briefly
annotates more than 3000 books in over 100 periods, genres, and subjects; selections
and brief bibliographic essays were done by 30 experts.
J. Peder Zane (ed)
Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures
in Reading. Norton, 2004.
The book review editor for the Raleigh News & Observer, invited 34 writers
to contribute essays launched by the request that they fill in the blank: "the
most ______ book I ever read," letting them fill in the blank, from the
“most enchanting” to the “most dangerous.”
The
Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books. Norton, 2007.
125 leading writers, including Tom Wolfe, Stephen King, Annie Proulx & Alice
Hoffman, were asked to provide a list of what they considered to be “the
ten greatest works of fiction of all time—novels, story collections, plays,
or poems.”
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