Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Why We Read

On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

By
Shannon Reed
Shannon Reed
2024 • 336 pages

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142 books

Audiobooks Read

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Molokaʻi
Pachinko: Library Edition
The Monk of Mokha
The Half-Drowned King
The Map of Salt and Stars
On Stranger Tides
The Kite Runner

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47 books

Memoir Biography

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Between the World and Me
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
Craigslist Confessional
In Order to Live

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13 books

Books About Books

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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade

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160 books

2024 Pub

latitude
Latitude
The Eyes Are the Best Part
Argylle
City of Laughter
Moonstorm
Memory Piece
The Baker and the Bard: A Cozy Fantasy Adventure

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Tbr Interested

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sarah
Fire & Flood
Shockwave
Crank
Fablehaven
When You Reach Me
Tricks
Unbreakable

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160 books

Nonfiction

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Sam Walker
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Dead Mountain
An Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering
Bad Gays
The Lady Whose Mouth I Set on Fire: True Tales from the ER
Pandora's Lab
Ozark Folk Magic: Plants, Prayers & Healing

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99 books

Book Love

Gwenn
Gwenn
Ajax Penumbra 1969
84, Charing Cross Road
Mental Floss: The Curious Reader: Facts about Famous Authors and Novels Book Lovers and Literary Interest a Literary Miscellany of Novels & Novelists
The Library Book
Bambert's Book of Missing Stories
No Two Persons

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158 books

Memoir

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Gwenn
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Notes of a Native Son
Our World
Blankets

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2024 Book Releases

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Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
Snapshot
The Second Deadly Sin
Empire of the Damned
House of Flame and Shadow

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227 books

2024 Releases

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Shelsey
Anna O
The Ladies Rewrite the Rules
Happily Never After
Hate Mail
Baby X
Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice
Finding Sophie

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4 books

Nonfiction

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Shelsey
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
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