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6 Big Books on My Reading List

Related Posts: 10 Big Books I Have Read & Loved 6 Big Books I Keep Meaning to Reread Like most of you, I have big, ambitious plans for my future reading. Here are the Big Books that currently reside on my TBR shelves. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy paperback, 1392 pages   Isn’t this […]

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Reading Recommendations for Women’s History Month

9 WOMEN TO WATCH IN 2016 A list of “up-and-coming female writers [who] will have readers talking in 2016.” 115 READING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BOOKS BY WOMEN From Bookriot’s Amanda Nelson: I jumped on the “One Book/One Like” Twitter bandwagon and decided to only recommend books by women for every like the tweet got. I made

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33 Life-Changing Books in Honor of International Women’s Day | Literary Hub

In honor of International Women’s Day, Women’s History Month, and all women everywhere, we asked the all-volunteer staff at VIDA to tell us about the books that changed their lives. Ran… Source: 33 Life-Changing Books in Honor of International Women’s Day | Literary Hub

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6 Big Books I Keep Meaning to Reread

Related Post: 10 Big Books I Have Read & Loved While scanning my bookshelves for Big Books I have read, I also found six that I have already read but want to read again. You’d think that once through a Big Book would be enough, but in fact Big Books contain so much that they

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10 Big Books I Have Read & Loved

Not too long ago, in the book section at Target, I overheard a woman say to her companion, “I stay away from big books.” They walked away, so I didn’t get to hear any more of the conversation, but it made me think about big books. I can imagine many reasons someone might offer for

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David Bowie’s Top 100 Books Bowie’s top 100 book list spans decades, from Richard Wright’s raw 1945 memoir Black Boy to Susan Jacoby’s 2008 analysis of U.S. anti-intellectualism in The Age of American Unreason. his list shows a lot of love to American writers, from the aforementioned to Truman Capote, Hubert Selby, Jr., Saul Bellow,

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Bill Gates Blogs About Books

New York Times writer Katherine Rosman introduces us to the book area of Bill Gates’s blog, Gates Notes, in Move over, Oprah: It’s the Bill Gates book blog. Gates also writes about issues such as health care and education on the blog, but, according to Rosman, “his book reviews tend to generate the most attention.”

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Final Edition: Best Books Lists

The Books We Loved in 2015 Electric Literature’s Best Novels of 2015 The Best Children’s Books of 2015 The 15 Best Books of 2015 Adam Woog’s picks: The 10 best mysteries of 2015 10 Best Music Books of 2015 The Best Poetry Books of 2015 The Best Books Of 2015, According To O Magazine And

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My List: Best Books Read in 2015

It’s not quite the end of the year yet, but since it looks as if I won’t finish any more books in time, I might as well go ahead with my annual list. I had an abysmal year of reading this year, only 28 books. While most other “best books of 2015” lists include books

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