The Top Ten Writers Pick Their Favorite Books

Author : J. Peder Zane
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393339866
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books written by J. Peder Zane and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you asked 125 top writers to pick their favorite books? Which titles would come out on top? You'll find the answer in The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books: the ultimate guide to the world's greatest books. As writers such as Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Margaret Drabble, Michael Chabon and Peter Carey name the ten books that have meant the most to them, you'll be reminded of books you have always loved and introduced to works awaiting your discovery. The Top Ten includes summaries of 544 books—each of which is considered to be among the ten greatest books ever written by at least one leading writer. In addition to each writer's Top Ten List, the book features Top Ten Lists tabulated from their picks, including: • The Top Ten Books of All Time • The Top Ten Books by Living Writers • The Top Ten Books of the Twentieth Century • The Top Ten Mysteries • The Top Ten Comedies The Top Ten will help readers answer the most pressing question of all: What should I read next?

Author : J. Peder Zane
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393328406
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books written by J. Peder Zane and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists the top ten favorite books of 125 authors; includes short essays by the authors on selected favorites; and provides a summary of every book chosen, 544 in all.

Author : J. Peder Zane
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393325409
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remarkable Reads written by J. Peder Zane and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of personal essays by writers about the books they read that inspired them to sometimes life-altering actions.

Author : Nancy Pearl
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062968513
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writer's Library written by Nancy Pearl and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW & NOTEWORTHY ~ THE NEW YORK TIMES With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives in this intimate, moving, and insightful collection from "American's Librarian" and recipient of the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award for Outstanding Service Nancy Pearl and noted playwright Jeff Schwager that celebrates the power of literature and reading to connect us all. Before Jennifer Egan, Louise Erdrich, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Jonathan Lethem became revered authors, they were readers. In this ebullient book, America’s favorite librarian Nancy Pearl and noted-playwright Jeff Schwager interview a diverse range of America's most notable and influential writers about the books that shaped them and inspired them to leave their own literary mark. Illustrated with beautiful line drawings, The Writer’s Library is a revelatory exploration of the studies, libraries, and bookstores of today’s favorite authors—the creative artists whose imagination and sublime talent make America's literary scene the wonderful, dynamic world it is. A love letter to books and a celebration of wordsmiths, The Writer’s Library is a treasure for anyone who has been moved by the written word. The authors in The Writer’s Library are: Russell Banks TC Boyle Michael Chabon Susan Choi Jennifer Egan Dave Eggers Louise Erdrich Richard Ford Laurie Frankel Andrew Sean Greer Jane Hirshfield Siri Hustvedt Charles Johnson Laila Lalami Jonathan Lethem Donna Tartt Madeline Miller Viet Thanh Nguyen Luis Alberto Urrea Vendela Vida Ayelet Waldman Maaza Mengiste Amor Towles

Author : Mary Gaitskill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684843129
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Girls, Fat and Thin written by Mary Gaitskill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-02-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justine, a beautiful, lonely, sexually addicted young woman, meets Dorothy, fat, maladjusted, and unhappy since childhood. They are superficially a study in contrasts yet share equally haunting sexual burdens carried since youth. With common secrets, they are drawn into a remarkable friendship.

Author : Cheryl Strayed
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101946911
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brave Enough written by Cheryl Strayed and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BEST SELLER • A collection of quotes from the internationally acclaimed author of Wild—drawn from the wide range of her writings—that capture her wisdom, courage, and outspoken humor, presented in a gift-sized package that's as irresistible to give as it is to receive. "Cheryl Strayed is a tough-love truth-teller.... Brave Enough amount[s] to a galvanizing call to be bigger, bolder, more generous.” —The Washington Post Around the world, thousands of people have found inspiration in the words of Cheryl Strayed, who in her three prior books and in her "Dear Sugar" columns has shared the twists and trials of her remarkable life. Her honesty, spirit, and ample supply of tough love have enabled many of us, even in the darkest hours, to somehow put one foot in front of the other—and be brave enough. This book gathers, each on a single page, more than 100 of Strayed's indelible quotes and thoughts—"mini instruction manuals for the soul" that urge us toward the incredible capacity for love, compassion, forgiveness, and endurance that is within us all. · Be brave enough to break your own heart. · You can't ride to the fair unless you get on the pony. · Keep walking. · Acceptance is a small, quiet room. · Romantic love is not a competitive sport. · Forward is the direction of real life. · Ask yourself: What is the best I can do? And then do that.

Author : Andrew Blauner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476789967
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Book written by Andrew Blauner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of previously unpublished pieces by 32 of today's most prominent writers shares their thoughts about biblical passages they find personally meaningful, in a volume that includes contributions by such figures as Edwidge Danticat, Tobias Wolff and Ian Frazier, "--NoveList.

Author : Adrian Bejan
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307744345
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design in Nature written by Adrian Bejan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law, accounts for the evolution of these and many other designs in our world. Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity. Likewise, the more complex architecture of animals evolve to cover greater distance per unit of useful energy, or increase their flow across the land. Such designs also appear in human organizations, like the hierarchical “flowcharts” or reporting structures in corporations and political bodies. All are governed by the same principle, known as the constructal law, and configure and reconfigure themselves over time to flow more efficiently. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigm-shifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us.

Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : New York : Summit Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 99 Novels written by Anthony Burgess and published by New York : Summit Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Morgan Housel
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
ISBN 13 : 085719769X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Money written by Morgan Housel and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money—investing, personal finance, and business decisions—is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.