Ex Libris

Ex Libris

By
Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman
1998 • 162 pages

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13 books

Writing

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Book Lust
The Sense of Style
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
At the New Yorker
The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
The Secrets of Story

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19 books

Essays

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orlando calva
The Portable Hannah Arendt
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
At the New Yorker
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5 books

Memoir

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orlando calva
Ex Libris
Life in Code
Operators and Things
El Diario de Ana Frank

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15 books

February 2016

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Sarah
The Crown of Embers
Curtsies & Conspiracies
The Bitter Kingdom
The Girl of Fire and Thorns
Born of Deception
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Winter

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249 books

Books About Books

DebNance
Deb Nance
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
The Wednesday Wars
Better Than Life
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Biblioholism
Beowulf on the Beach
Bad Things Happen

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91 books

Reading

DebNance
Deb Nance
Reading magic
More Baths, Less Talking
The End of Your Life Book Club
You've GOT to Read This Book!

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129 books

Owned

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Jason Niro
The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari
A Mind at Play
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Countdown to Zero Day
1066: The Year of The Conquest
Meditations
Always follow the elephants

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26 books

Essays

Sugaroni
Ana
An idiot girl's Christmas
Bitter Is the New Black
Yarn Harlot
Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
Under the duvet
Such a Pretty Fat
The idiot girl and the flaming tantrum of death

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251 books

Nf

gryphyn
Sarah
Neither Here, Nor There
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
Notes from a Small Island
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
At Home
A Walk in the Woods
In A Sunburned Country

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211 books

2008pre Book

gryphyn
Sarah
Jovah's Angel (Samaria, Book 2)
The Alleluia Files (Samaria, Book 3)
Flying Finish
Hot Money
Longshot
In the Frame
Risk

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92 books

2013audio

gryphyn
Sarah
The Unusual Suspects
Too many curses
Once Upon a Crime
Magic and other misdemeanors
Le Bilbliomancien
Monster

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124 books

5stars

gryphyn
Sarah
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Neverwhere
The First Chronicles Of Prydain
Silver On The Tree
Over Sea, Under Stone
Guns, Germs and Steel
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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3,329 books

Adult

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Martha
Scarlett
Who Moved My Cheese?
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
First Rider's Call
The Fox
Poison Study

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1,016 books

Non Fiction

Martha
Martha
Don't Just Do Something, Sit There!
Plato and a platypus walk into a bar--
Happiness: Finders, Keepers
Mee Thinks: Random Thoughts on Life's Wrinkles
The Cost of Winning: Coming in First Across the Wrong Finish Line
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
The Fred Factor

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41 books

Literary Linguistic

Martha
Martha
At Home with Books
The Book Whisperer
Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends
99 Ways to Tell a Story
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
The Rights of the Reader

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317 books

Library

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Eva
Life in Code
The Best We Could Do
Hostage
Everybody Lies
Alex + Ada
My Absolute Darling
Radical Technologies

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92 books

2017

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Eva
The Handmaid's Tale
Persuasion
War and Peace
The Yellow Wallpaper
A Little Life
Alias Grace
Das größere Wunder

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20 books

Essays And Memoir

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Eva
Men Explain Things to Me
When Breath Becomes Air
The Mother of All Questions
Between the World and Me
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
The Silence of Animals
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904 books

Library

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Laura
Devotion: A Memoir
Silk is for Seduction
The Sisters Brothers
The Murder at the Vicarage
Fear
A duke by default
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

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303 books

Non Fiction

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Laura
Devotion: A Memoir
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Fear
The Art of Memoir
Hunger
The Solace of Open Spaces
At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays

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26 books

Journalist

Courtreader
Court
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
Ten Days in a Mad-House
Half Broke Horses
The Glass Castle
The Devil Wears Prada
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

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180 books

Meta

Courtreader
Court
My Ideal Bookshelf
The Polysyllabic Spree
Housekeeping vs. the Dirt
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
The Uncommon Reader
The Elements of F*cking Style: A Helpful Parody

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20 books

Essay

Courtreader
Court
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
The World Record Book of Racist Stories
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions
How to Be Black
Look Alive Out There

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67 books

Favorites

Xandra
Alexandra Kaste
Lust for Life
Island of the Blue Dolphins
A Room with a View
The Importance of Being Earnest
All Things Bright and Beautiful
The Time Quartet Box Set
The Witch of Blackbird Pond

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63 books

Want To Hear

Teedubya
Travis West
Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
The 7 laws of magical thinking
Wait the art and science of delay
Some Remarks
The Princess Diarist
What If This Were Enough?: Essays
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
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