Books for Living
By: Will Schwalbe
4.15
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club - a wonderfully enga…
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1. Death Be Not Proud
By: John Gunther
3.86
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Death Be Not Proud chronicles Johnny Gunther's gallant struggle against the malignant brain tumor t… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Live while you live, then die and be done with."-John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud
"What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him."-John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud
"(...) about one of his schools he said, "I would make the following criticisms. First, too much attention to marks. Second, too much religion. Third, no time for me to develop my own interests. Fourt…"-John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud
2. Gift from the Sea
By: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In this inimitable, beloved classic--graceful, lucid and lyrical--Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
3. Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
By: Anne Lamott
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
New York Times-bestselling author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to co… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
4. Books for Living
By: Will Schwalbe
4.15
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club - a wonderfully enga… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
- audiobook
5. The Gifts of the Body
By: Rebecca Brown
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-care worker who tenders compassion and love… read more
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6. The Taste of Country Cooking
By: Edna Lewis
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In recipes and reminiscences equally delicious, Edna Lewis celebrates the uniquely American country… read more
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7. At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays
By: Anne Fadiman
4.41
Format: None pages,
In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay--a… read more
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8. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
By: Nina Sankovitch
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
After the death of her sister, Nina Sankovitch found herself caught up in grief, dashing from one a… read more
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9. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
10. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
11. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
By: James Patterson
3.92
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more
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- biography memoir
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"Different books speak to us at different times."-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
12. The Wealth of Shadows
By: Graham Moore
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy… read more
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13. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
By: Shannon Reed
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
- audiobook
"I think, therefore, I cry..."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"Life is so much better with books than without."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
14. 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round
By: Jami Attenberg
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s gui… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
15. How to Read a Book
By: Monica Wood
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more
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- books about books
- audiobook
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book
16. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
17. Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
By: Emma Smith
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside the rosy nostalgic glow for child… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
18. The Menopause Brain: New Science Empowers Women to Navigate the Pivotal Transition with Knowledge and Confidence
By: Lisa Mosconi
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The XX Brain shows women how to navigate menopause success… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. We're All in This Together . . .: So Make Some Room
By: Tom Papa
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Stand-up is all well and good, but observational humor that’s funny and warm may work best in books… read more
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- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
20. The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
By: Nancy Pearl
3.78
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Introduction by Susan Orlean Twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Ta… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
- audiobook
21. How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature
By: Josh Cohen
3.59
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature invites us to contemplate profound questions … read more
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- books about books
