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"Imagine keeping a record of every book you ever read. What would those titles say about you? With humor and warmth, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her life. For twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books she read... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Why keep track?
- Brave new world: You shouldn't be reading that
- Slaves of New York: The literary life
- The trial: A book with no ending
- Catch-22: Never enough
- The Norton anthology of English literature: Required reading
- Into that darkness: Voyeurism
- The grapes of wrath: Among readers
- A journey of one's own: Books that change your life
- Anna Karenina: Heroines
- Swimming to Cambodia: The company of narrators
- Wild swans: Inspirational reading
- The wisdom of the body: In love with a book
- The magic mountain: Different interpretations
- Autobiography of a face: On self-help
- Flashman: I do not like your books
- The master and Margarita: Recommendations
- The hunger games: No time to read
- A wrinkle in time: Reading with children
- Bad news: Tearjerkers
- Les miseĢrables: Why read?
- A spy among friends: Other writers
- Epilogue: The lives we read.