For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most

by Various

Other authorsRonald B. Shwartz (Editor)
Paper Book, 2000

Status

Available

Call number

028.9

Tags

Books Writers Love

Genres

Collection

Books on Books

Publication

Berkley Trade (2000), 320 pages

Description

"For this ultimate book lover's guide, more than one hundred distinguished writers share their personal thoughts in response to the question: What books have left the greatest impression on you, and why? The result is not a contrived list of Western civilization's "Great Books," but heartfelt commentary on works - classic and otherwise - that these lifelong readers most admire."--BOOK JACKET.

User reviews

LibraryThing member debnance
When you love books, like I do, one of the things we book lovers seem to love is to read about what books other books lovers love to read. Browsable fun.

Subjects

Authors Books and reading
Authors, American Books and reading

Language

English

Original language

English

Physical description

320 p.; 6.1 inches

ISBN

0425172945 / 9780425172940

Similar in this library

A passion for books : a book lover's treasury of stories, essays, humor, lore, and lists on collecting, reading, borrowing, lending, caring for, and appreciating books by Harold Rabinowitz
A Gentle Madness - Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, And The Eternal Passion For Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne FADIMAN
Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture. by Nicholas A. Basbanes
A splendor of letters : the permanence of books in an impermanent world by Nicholas A. Basbanes
19 more
Slightly chipped : footnotes in booklore by Lawrence Goldstone
Great Books by David Denby
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas by Brian Lamb
Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl
Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Biblioholism, Revised Edition: The Literary Addiction by Tom Raabe
The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
Editions and impressions : twenty years on the book beat by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books by Maureen Corrigan
Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life by Michael Dirda
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
Used and rare : travels in the book world by Lawrence Goldstone
Speaking of Books: The Best Things Ever Said About Books and Book Collecting by Rob Kaplan
Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History by Lewis Buzbee
Books of the Century by Diana Bryan

More

Amazon.comLibraryThing
Page: 0.5756 seconds