This morning’s edition of BookPageXTRA is all about nonfiction books about books, authors and reading.
We’ve raved here on the blog about this genre before, from nonfiction editor Kate’s post on The Magician’s Book (about C.S. Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia) to web editor Trisha’s post on biographies about and fiction inspired by the life of Louisa May Alcott.
In XTRA, we highlighted five 2011 books:
A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz; The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure; The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma; Reading My Father by Alexandra Styron; and Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker edited by Joelle Biele.
Read more about our choices in XTRA, and let us know: What do you have to add to this list?
I have enjoyed reading all my life. I must get it from my father.
I enjoy “popular” authors but also new authors.
I just finished reading a book entitled “Evanfall”. This is the first works of Liz Michalski. It is thoroughly relaxing, enjoyable, and you can get lost in it. I urge everyone to pick up a copy and read. You will enjoy it.
I love reading..read all my life, came from a family of readers. In fact, it came as a great surprise to find that families all didn’t go to sleep with a reading lamp glowing on a book in their hand at night when they went to bed. The lastest book I’ve enjoyed is No! I Don’t Want To Join A Book Club: Diary of a 60th Year by Virginia Ironside. As an old gal who feels much the same, this was a nice read.
I mentioned this one here last year, but it still ranks as my Number One fave as a book about books – Pat Conroy’s MY READING LIFE.
But I now have another to squeal about. If you haven’t discovered Susan Hill’s HOWARDS END IS ON THE LANDING, I highly recommend it. Anyone who likes reading books about books is going to find this little jewel to be priceless. The hunt for an elusive book on her “not very organized” shelves, prompted author Susan Hill to embark on a year-long meander through her collection.