A History of Reading

A History of Reading

By
Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel
1996 • 558 pages

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124 books

Owned TBR

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Ashley
Villette
Far From the Madding Crowd
Northanger Abbey
Hard Times
Bleak House
Brideshead Revisited
Orlando: A Biography

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451 books

Read Before 2010

perian
Cid
The Dog Is Not a Toy: House Rule #4
So You Want to Be a Wizard
The Elvenbane
In the Garden of Iden: A Novel of the Company
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Redwall

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725 books

Interesting To Check

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Marie Claude Gagnon
Celui qui reste
I Let You Go
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
The English Patient
Las cenizas de Ángela
The Golden Compass
The High Mountains of Portugal

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29 books

Books About Books

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Marie Claude Gagnon
The Shadow of the Wind
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Trinaesta priča
Ex Libris
The Eyre Affair
84, Charing Cross Road
Book Lust

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26 books

To Buy

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Marie
Lucky Man
All Men Are Liars
Everyone communicates, few connect : what the most effective people do differently
George Michael: The Biography
Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrows Success

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126 books

Non Fiction

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Jenny
On Photography
Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
Reborn
Women
Chronicles: Volume One
Just Kids

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172 books

Non Fiction

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The God Delusion
The Road Ahead
The Diary of a Young Girl
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
The Tao Of Physics: An Exploration Of The Parallels Between Modern Physics And Eastern Mysticism
The Story of Philosophy
A Short History of Nearly Everything

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21 books

Literature

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Fool
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent
On Literature
Writings on China
The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400–1600
Limits of language

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33 books

2014

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Das Glasperlenspiel
Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive
Arcadia
Galatea 2.2
The group
The Bug

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249 books

Non Fiction

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Eva
Men Explain Things to Me
When Breath Becomes Air
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Thank You for Being Late
Lab Girl
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
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Bestreads

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Forward the Foundation

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25 books

History

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A People's History of the United States
Early Indians
The Ministry of Truth
Humans
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
The Drowned and the Saved
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome