READERS – about books and their readers: WRITERS – about authors and their craft: Non-fiction – book culture, history, and lists:
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood The Information by Martin Amis A Universal History of the Destruction of Books by Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Fernando Baez Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon (& film) The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks Erasure by Percival Everett Hoover Bartlett Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne 500 Great Books by Women by Erica Bauermeister The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Fowler Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach Possession by A.S. Byatt A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo The World According to Garp by John Irving (& film) The History of the Book in 100 Books by Roderick Calvino Misery by Stephen King (& film) Cave The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Leave me alone, I’m reading by Maureen Corrigan The Hours by Michael Cunningham (&film) Atonement by Ian McEwan The Case for Books by Robert Darnton The name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Hotels of North America by Rick Moody On Literature by Umberto Eco The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami How to be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Turn, Magic Wheel by Dawn Powell Loving Literature: A Cultural History by Diedre The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Lynch Drood by Dan Simmons A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel The History of Love by Nicole Krauss The Master by Colm Toibin My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Old School by Tobias Wolff What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte Stranger than Fiction (film) The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film) Read this Next by Howard Mittelmark Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell Finding Forrester (film) The Library: An Illustrated History by Stuart A.P. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Capote (Film) Murray Sloan Finding Neverland (film) Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Ruby Sparks (film) By the Book by Pamela Paul Among Others by Jo Walton American Splendor (film) Book Lust by Nancy Pearl The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Secret Window (film) More Book Lust by Nancy Pearl Howl (film) The Novel: A Biography by Michael Schmidt The Neverending Story (film) Kill Your Darlings (film) A Jury of her Peers by Elaine Showalter The Princess Bride (film) Shakespeare in Love (film) Well-read lives: how books inspired a generation of The Reader (film) Bright Star (film) American women by Barbara Sicherman Midnight in Paris (film) Barton Fink (film) On rereading by Patricia Meyer Spacks The Book Thief (film) The End of the Tour (film) What Makes this Book so Great by Jo Walton Party Girl (film) Deathtrap (film) The Professor and the Madman by Simon Naked Lunch (film) Winchester The Ghost Writer (film) Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf