I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
By: Anne Bogel
4.02
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our boo…
Want to Read $ 10.64"Just as I’m all the ages I have been, I’m all the readers I have been."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"Just as I’m all the ages I have been, I’m all the readers I have been."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"For everyone who’s ever finished a book under the covers with a flashlight when they were supposed to be sleeping."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"For everyone who’s ever finished a book under the covers with a flashlight when they were supposed to be sleeping."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
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1. Letters and Journals
By: Katherine Mansfield , C.K. Stead
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
'Now - now I want to write recollections of my own country. Yes, I want to write about my own count… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all... You see it's so immensely complicated. It needs real humil…"-Katherine Mansfield, Letters and Journals
2. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
By: Anne Fadiman
4.10
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Anne Fadiman is (by her own admission) the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's c… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- books about books
"Pen-bereavement is a serious matter."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"I have never been able to resist a book about books."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
3. Breaking Clean
By: Judy Blunt
3.71
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
Blunt has turned the memories of her childhood and young adulthood in rural Montana into a beautifu… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
4. Welcome to My Country
By: Lauren Slater
3.90
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Lauren Slater, a brilliant writer who is a young therapist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal and … read more
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5. The Sabi
By: None
4.60
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
She does not know how, but has a sabi from her earliest memory that she was different. What she doe… read more
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6. Go West, Young Woman!: From Military Wife to Country Life
By: None
3.72
Format: 224 pages,
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7. I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers
By: Ann Patchett , Gretchen Rubin , Maura Kelly , None
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For anyone who'd rather be reading than doing just about anything else, this book is the ultimate m… read more
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8. The Third Sunrise: A Memoir of Madness
By: Natalie Jeanne Champagne
3.97
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
“Psychiatrists and I; we do not get on well. They have failed to cure me; I am still damaged and it… read more
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- biography memoir
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9. Dear Fahrenheit 451: A Librarian's Love Letters and Break-Up Notes to the Books in Her Life
By: Annie Spence
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
A Gen-X librarian's snarky, laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and brea… read more
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10. 84, Charing Cross Road
By: Helene Hanff
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more
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11. The Cost of Hope: A Memoir
By: Amanda Bennett
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening, and beautifully written memo… read more
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12. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind
By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon
4.29
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
By: Anne Michaud
4.29
Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition
Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
14. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov
4.30
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- biography
"#metooasachild"-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
"We can be beacons of light"-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
"Unconditional Love conquers all!"-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
15. 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
- biography memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"Different books speak to us at different times."-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
16. Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
By: Jane Mount
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This volume brims with bookish treasures, all delightfully illustrated by avowed bibliophile, Jane … read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- writing
- books about books
"I know that any book, when read at the right moment, might make my life better, might give me a greater understanding of the universe and all the other people in it."-Jane Mount, Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
"As Neil Gaiman said, a book is a "little empathy machine," and it is "very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you've just read a book of one of those people"."-Jane Mount, Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
"[John McPhee] has taught writing at Princeton for decades. He tells his classes, "Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research."-Jane Mount, Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
"The goal of this book is to triple the size of your To Be Read pile. It's a literary Wunderkammer, connecting you with books you might love for all kinds of reasons―because the subject speaks to you,…"-Jane Mount, Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
17. I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
By: Anne Bogel
4.02
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our boo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"Just as I’m all the ages I have been, I’m all the readers I have been."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"For everyone who’s ever finished a book under the covers with a flashlight when they were supposed to be sleeping."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"A good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It's not the same book, and we're not the same reader"-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"With apologies to Kathleen Kelly, what I've come to learn is this: if my real life reminds me of something I read in a book , I'm reading well -- and I'm probably living well, too."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
18. The Bookmaker's Daughter: A Memory Unbound
By: Shirley Abbott
3.86
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
This deeply felt memoir is a journey through family history, feminist insight, and southern mytholo… read more
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19. The Triumph of Rosemary
By: Marylin E. Atkins
3.98
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Baby Rosemary - born to an Italian teen and a married black man in Detroit in 1946 - is adopted fro… read more
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20. Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
By: Sarah Clarkson
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
When you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Do you hunger for tru… read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
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"To know yourself as an agent in the story of the world, one able to bring light and goodness in the midst of suffering, is a profoundly empowering knowledge, one that I believe comes to every woman w…"-Sarah Clarkson, Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
"A woman who reads is a woman who knows she must act: in courage, in creativity, in kindness, and often in defiance of the darkness around her. She understands that life itself is a story and that she…"-Sarah Clarkson, Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
21. Half Light
By: Tayari Jones
3.74
Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio
From Tayari Jones, author of the New York Times best seller and Oprah’s Book Club pick An American … read more
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