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(3.52) | 20 | Sixty-five concise and lively essays by some of today's most successful writers identify the books that proved pivotal to the shaping of their careers, in a volume that includes Harold Bloom on "Little, Big," Nelson DeMille on "Atlas Shrugged," and Sebastian Junger on "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."… (more) |
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None ▾Book descriptions Sixty-five concise and lively essays by some of today's most successful writers identify the books that proved pivotal to the shaping of their careers, in a volume that includes Harold Bloom on "Little, Big," Nelson DeMille on "Atlas Shrugged," and Sebastian Junger on "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contains: - Introduction / Roxanne J. Coady
- Dorothy Allison on Toni Morrisons’s The Bluest Eye
- Kate Atkinson on Robert Coover’s Pricksongs and Descants
- James Atlas on Gwendolyn Brooks’s Selected Poems
- Robert Ballard on Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth
- Gina Barreca on Jean Kerr’s The Snake Has All the Lines
- Nicholas A. Basbanes on the Works of Shakespeare
- Graeme Base on J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
- Jeff Benedict on The Little Engine That Could
- Elizabeth Berg on J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
- Amy Bloom on The Most of P. G. Wodehouse
- Harold Bloom on John Crowley’s Little, Big
- Lary Bloom on John Hersey’s Hiroshima
- Chris Bohjalian on Joyce Carol Oates’s Expensive People and More
- Steven Brill on Theodore H. White’s The Making of the President, 1960
- Benjamin Cheever on Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death
- Da Chen on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo
- Harriet Scott Chessman on Gertrude Stein’s Ida
- Brother Christopher on Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain
- Carol Higgins Clark on Mary Higgins Clark’s A Stranger Is Watching
- Billy Collins on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
- Claire Cook on Carolyn Keene’s Nancy Drew Mysteries
- Caroline B. Cooney on Caesar’s Gallic Wars
- Patricia Cornwell on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Maureen Corrigan on Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
- Nelson DeMille on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and More
- Tomie dePaola on Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter
- Anita Diamant on Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
- Dominick Dunne on Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now
- Carlos Eire on Thomas à Kempis’s The Imitation of Christ
- Linda Fairstein on Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Doris Kearns Goodwin on Barbara W. Tuchman’s The Guns of August
- Linda Greenlaw on Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm
- David Halberstam on Cecil Woodham-Smith’s The Reason Why
- Alice Hoffman on J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
- Sebastian Junger on Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- Paul Kennedy on Geoffrey Barraclough’s An Introduction to Contemporary History
- Tracy Kidder on Ernest Hemingway’s Collected Stories
- Robert Kurson on Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death
- Wally Lamb on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
- Anne Lamott on Ram Dass’s The Only Dance There Is and More
- Barbara Leaming on Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams
- Senator Joe Lieberman on The Bible
- Margot Livesey on Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre
- Senator John McCain on Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Frank McCourt on Shakespeare’s Henry VIII
- Faith Middleton on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
- Jacquelyn Mitchard on Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Leigh Montville on Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct Series
- Sara Nelson on Herman Wouk’s Marjorie Morningstar and Susan Isaacs' Compromising Positions
- Sherwin B. Nuland on William Lewis Nida’s Ab the Cave Man
- Laura Numeroff on Kay Thompson’s Eloise
- Stewart O'Nan on William Maxwell’s So Long, See You Tomorrow
- Jacques Pépin on Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus
- Anne Perry on G. K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday
- Jack Prelutsky on Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses and More
- Ian Rankin on Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange
- Richard Rhodes on Albert Schweitzer’s Out of My Life and Thought and Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle Series
- Frank Rich on Moss Hart’s Act One
- SARK on Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Lisa Scottoline on Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes
- Bernie S. Siegel on William Saroyan’s The Human Comedy
- Liz Smith on Christopher Morley’s Kitty Foyle and Guy Endore’s Voltaire! Voltaire!
- Edward Sorel on Stendhal’s The Red and the Black
- Jane Stern on John Barth’s The End of the Road
- Michael Stern on the Sears Catalogue
- Alexandra Stoddard on Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet
- Paco Underhill on C. S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower Series
- Susan Vreeland on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
- Kate Walbert on E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web
- Katharine Weber on Steven Millhauser’s Edwin Mullhouse
- Jacqueline Winspear on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
- The Books That Changed Their Lives : A Reading List of the Books Selected by the Contributors
- Roxanne’s Very Opinionated Reading List
- Joy’s Very Opinionated Reading List
- Acknowledgments
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