Reading & Books Nonfiction Stars

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.
  • Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments
    by Dirda, Michael
    Publisher: Indiana Univ $ 24.95 ISBN: 0151006520 Date: 2000
    starKirkus
    Intimate, humorous and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the "Washington Post" and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
  • Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller 1900-1999
    Author: Korda, Michael
    Publisher: Barnes & Noble $ 20 ISBN: 0760725594 Date: 2001
    starPW
    Updated 11/27/01
  • Outwitting History: How One Man Rescued a Million Books and Saved a Civilization
    Author: Lansky, Aaron
    Publisher: Algonquin $ 24.95 ISBN: 1565124294 Date: 2004
    starKirkusstarLJ
    The man who spearheaded what has been called "the greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history" recounts his poignant, intrepid, and often riotous quest to safeguard a vanishing civilization.
    Updated 11.2.04
  • Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering
    Author: Lesser, Wendy
    Publisher: Houghton Mifflin $ 24 ISBN: 061808293x Date: 2002
    starLibrary Journal
    From classic novels to poetry, Lessing covers the whole literary spectrum in this witty and humane exploration of what books can mean to our lives, and vice versa.
    Updated 4.1.02
  • A Reading Diary
    Author: Manguel, Alberto
    Publisher: FSG $ 20 ISBN: 0374247420 Date: 2004
    starPW
    While traveling, Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world he was living in. He decided to keep a diary of these moments, reading a book a month and recording his observations, which provides an enthralling adventure in literature and life.
    Updated 6.30.04
  • The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
    Author: Spufford, Francis
    Publisher: Metropolitan $ 23 ISBN: 0805072152 Date: 2002
    starKirkusstarBooklist
    In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Spufford goes back to his earliest encounters with books, exploring such beloved classics as The Wind in the Willows, The Little House on the Prairie, and the Narnia chronicles.
    Updated 8.28.02