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Title: The Reading List : Contemporary Fiction: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works of 125 Authors by David Rubel ISBN: 0-8050-5527-4 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 15 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent, excellent, excellent!
Comment: I'm an avid reader of books about books, especially other people's annotated lists of books to read, and this is one of the very best I've seen. It's subtitled "A Critical Guide to the Complete Works of 110 Authors," and it's an excellent introduction for even the most serious reader of modern literary fiction to those authors and books one inevitably misses. Some of my favorites are here, including Steven Milhauser, David Lodge, and Jane Smiley, but I was also made to think again about Mian Kundera, Barbara Kingsolver, and a few others by whom I had not been particularly impressed. The biographical notes will also give you some clues to where an author's work comes from, and the annotations on individual books are uniformly excellent -- even when I disagree with them. This is one for making marginal notes in!
Rating: 5
Summary: The Reading List - Contemporary Fiction
Comment: A fantastic resource whether you are looking for book club suggestions or ideas for your own reading. I have just begun on the journey to increase my knowledge of contemporary authors and their novels by reading the starred books --the ones the editor considers to be "the best" by each author included. I'm sure anyone will "discover" unfamiliar authors or novels not yet read. It makes a terrific gift for the book lovers on your list.
Rating: 5
Summary: very useful guide to new authors
Comment: This book is great if you are a fan of contemporary fiction. This book is a helpful guide to finding out about different authors you've heard about but don't know what book to read first. Rubel gives brief intros to each author and their individual works. He also provides his picks as to the best book to read first, which are the author's best works, and who else you might enjoy reading if you like a particular author. For authors I had already read that were listed in the book, I felt he gave a pretty accurate ratings for good first books by an author, and was quite pleased with the resulting recommendations.
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Title: The New Lifetime Reading Plan : The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded by Clifton Fadiman, John S. Major ISBN: 0062720732 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Readers' Choice: 200 Book Club Favorites by Victoria Golden McMains ISBN: 0688174353 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 25 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Books That Changed the World by Robert B. Downs ISBN: 0451626982 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Salon.Com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors by Laura Miller, Adam Begley, Salon.Com ISBN: 014028088X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: 500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide by Erica Bauermeister, Jesse Larsen, Holly Smith ISBN: 0140175903 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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