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A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author’s year-long journey through a book from every country. Ann Morgan writes in the opening of this delightful book, "I glanced up at my bookshelves, the proud record of more than twenty years of reading,...

Trivia-on-Book: My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! You may have read the book, but not have liked it. You may have liked the book, but not be a fan. You may call...

Trivia-on-Book: Dork Diaries by Rachel Renée Russell Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! You may have read the book, but not have liked it. You may have liked the book, but not be a fan. You may call yourself a fan, but few truly...

Trivia-on-Book: The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz Take the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends! You may have read the book, but not have liked it. You may have liked the book, but not be a fan. You may call yourself a fan, but few truly...

Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context...

Trivia-on-Book: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared: A Novel by Jonas Jonasson Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, written by Jonas Jonasson, follows...

Trivia-on-Book: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! In our materialistic age, decluttering is essential and Marie Kondo teaches how to do so to perfection. Having researched for years on organizing...

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Mere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by symptomatic analyses of fictional texts (new historicist, Marxist, feminist, identity-political),...

Scott's Books is an approachable introduction to the Waverley Novels. Drawing on substantial research in Scott's intertextual sources, it offers a fresh approach to the existing readings where the thematic and theoretical are the norm. Avoiding jargon, and moving briskly, it tackles the vexed question...

“To open a book is ever to go on a voyage of discovery. The anchor is up, and you are adrift on the unknown” (Edward Thomas); “No le pide nada a usted el cuerpo, querido lector. Pero ¿en dónde vive?” (Roberto Arlt); “It is childish to suppose that a hundred books can be named as those...

Trivia-on-Book: The Road to Character by David Brooks Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! A well-known conservative pundit and The New York Times columnist, David Brooks, takes the most influential bestseller lists by storm with his freshly published...

Trivia-on-Book: Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari Take the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends! In the 2015 New York Times Bestseller Modern Romance, celebrated actor and comedian Aziz Ansari explores the interaction between love and technology and how this affects today's...

Trivia-on-Book: The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! Three women - three different lives with their unique problems and daily struggles. Little do they know how the secret that is about to be revealed is going...

Trivia-on-Book: The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel by Fannie Flagg Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! Written by New York Times best-selling author Fannie Flagg, The All-Girls Filling Station's Last Reunion is a comedic mystery...