Book Recommendations
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
On Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time...and more
George Saunders
The book that first made me a reader was In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway, and a specific edition of the book: a hardcover, probably...
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
On Watership Down
Junot Díaz
Like some, I became a reader as soon as I learned to read.
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
The Dictionary
Esmeralda Santiago
Before I loved reading, I loved words. Palabras, in Spanish. When I was eight in Puerto Rico, a traveling salesman came to our one-room...
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Book Recs
Junior Edition #32
Celia McGee
Featuring books by Susan Verde, Georgia Pritchett, Christine Kendall, and Cecily von Ziegesar!
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Eight Books to Escape the Cold
When the winter blues set in, we love reading that transports you to another world (maybe a sunnier, more tropical world)
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Book RecsJunior Edition
Junior Edition #31
Celia McGee
Featuring books by Andrea Beaty, Tania Unsworth, Amy Ignatow, and Brian Conaghan!
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Otherworldly Book Picks
We’ve selected some of our favorite sci-fi and fantasy novels. If you are new to these genres we encourage you to dive in and enjoy one...
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The Book That Made Me a ReaderBook Recs
Jane Marcus
Ben Marcus
A person, not a book, made me a reader. Her name is Jane Marcus. She was born on January 23, 1938, in St. Albans, Vermont
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Book RecsJunior Edition
Junior Edition #30
Celia McGee
Featuring books by Diane Lampert, Judith Kerr, Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan, and Kimberly McCreight!
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
On Henryk Sienkiewicz's historical trilogy
Louis Begley
Between the age of nine and twelve, I read nonstop. Circumstances of my life in Poland during World War II were such that there was little else I could do safely.
