Reading Lists

Lives Lived at Sea: A Reading List

Lisa Alther Recommends Her Favorite Tales of Shipbound Life

 
By Lisa Alther  June 15, 2020
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Searching for Meaning in Times of Despair: A Reading List

By Tara Isabella Burton  June 15, 2020
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Changing Me to We: We Should All Try Writing in the First Person Plural

By Sharon Harrigan  June 12, 2020
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Understanding the Complexities of Cuba: A Reading List

By Anthony DePalma  June 4, 2020
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Rural Queer Fiction: A Reading List

By Carter Sickels  May 21, 2020
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Paulette Jiles Recommends a Little Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Escapism

By Paulette Jiles  May 7, 2020
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The Writers Vincent van Gogh Loved, From Charles Dickens to Harriet Beecher Stowe

By Mariella Guzzoni  May 4, 2020
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The Memoir in Essays:
A Reading List

By Elizabeth Kadetsky  April 29, 2020
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Living Through a Plague:
A Reading List

By Rishi Reddi  April 27, 2020
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How to Unpack a Messy World: A Reading List

By Bethany Saltman  April 24, 2020
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See the World Through Books: A Reading List from Bookselling Without Borders

By Bookselling Without Borders  April 23, 2020
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Eight Memoirs to Keep You Company in Isolation:
A Reading List

By Frances Cha  April 21, 2020
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Restoring Women’s Voices to Mainstream Arab Literature

By Ibtisam Barakat  April 16, 2020
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How to Pay Attention in a Time of Crisis: A Reading List

By Casey Schwartz  April 8, 2020
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Beyond Little Women: A Reading List for Bookish Girls

By Janice Hadlow  March 31, 2020
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Nine Unabashed Books
About Bodies

By Cai Emmons  March 25, 2020
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In Praise of Weird Literary Romances

By Amy Bonnaffons  February 14, 2020
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Keep Calm and Read These 7 Books of Extremely British Satire

By Hannah Rothschild  February 12, 2020
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Revisiting the ‘Long Take’ Genius of the Two-Day Novel

By Paul Yoon  January 30, 2020
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Kate Racculia on Day Jobs, the Old Internet, and the Death of Malls

By So Many Damn Books  December 4, 2019
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Six Novels That Capture Detroit, Past and Present

By Jodie Adams Kirshner  November 27, 2019
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Helen Phillips on What Makes a Page-Turner

By So Many Damn Books  November 19, 2019
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All of Our Good—and All of Our Evil—Lies in Wait in the Archives

By Sara Sligar  November 7, 2019
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So Many Damn Books Turns Five!

By So Many Damn Books  November 5, 2019
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Jami Attenberg on Writing Family and Being an American Author

By So Many Damn Books  October 22, 2019
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