Alyson Books, 2009 It begins with "This book is not a canon!!! And that's fine with me. I suspect it's fine with most of you, too. There is nothing "representative" or "survey-like" about this volume. The only rule that Richard Canning had in approaching the project was that each author
Jonathan Yardley's Second Reading: Notable and Neglected Books Revisited Europa Editions, 2011 Originally published in "The Washinton Post" between 2003 and 2010, these pieces were accompanied by this snippet: "An occasional series in which the Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past." Well, what could be
Good Fiction Guide, Ed. Jane Rogers 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2005. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) Charles Dickens' Bleak House (1852-3) George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-2) Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1896) Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (1913) Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925) Aldous Huxley's
The Heroine's Bookshelf Challenge Check it out here! Come on, you know you want to! (If all this is news to you, check out yesterday's response to this sweet little volume.) Or, if you'd rather, the book itself is structured in such a way that it invites a twelve-month exploration. The website
1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up Julia Eccleshare, Ed. Universe, 2009 This kind of reference makes you think about devoting an entire year to reading just children's books. When you see so many favourites discussed herein, you only want to reread them. And when you see
