| ||||
 How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the LinesBest Price: $7.49 It's an interesting, funny, and informative book that can give you ideas of how to interpret the... |  How to Read a Book (A Touchstone Book)Best Price: $7.50 A great book on a seemingly obvious subject. Very insightful and a must for any begining... |  Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in BooksBest Price: $1.50 Fantastic book, not only does she give u a real insight into her experiences during a key period... |  How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary FormBest Price: $8.10 Foster is clearly a man who loves literature, and his book offered some worthy insights, but it... |  The Library at NightBest Price: $16.94 Alberto Manguel has produced a romantic history of libraries which incorporates their best... |
 Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.)Best Price: $6.73 The concept is great. The product did not meet the promise. The presentation style was just too... |  The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the WorldBest Price: $5.49 If you're thinking about buying this book, BUY IT now and stop wasting the precious time you... |  The Annotated Alice: The Definitive EditionBest Price: $16.80 I was truly pleasingly surprised when I received this book. It was much more than I expected... |  Maps and LegendsBest Price: $13.24 The work has some unique themes on comedy and other classic topics. A section covers the... |  Classics for PleasureBest Price: $6.95 So infectious is Dirda's delight in the passion for living that goes into a good book that I... |
 The Reading Teacher's Book Of Lists, 5th Edition (J-B Ed: Book of Lists)Best Price: $16.95 The Reading TEacher's Book of Lists is good for any Elementary Teacher to have and use on a... |  10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't HelpBest Price: $15.74 I remember almost thirty years ago a brother-in-law retorting, during a discussion about... |  Honey for a Child's HeartBest Price: $4.94 Are you a parent of young children? Then this book is a MUST read! The list of books in the... |  The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never HadBest Price: $14.99 Helpful and very well organized. The author takes a very daunting task (to become "well... |  1001 Books You Must Read Before You DieBest Price: $18.49 Too much is made of the content items in this series, as if though they were meant to be the... |
 The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions)Best Price: $10.00 This eddition of the book is not about the excellence of the story- but, rather a consise review... |  The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young WritersBest Price: $6.00 After finishing this book, I had mixed feelings. I liked how it helped integrate three quality... |  Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs & Reading GroupsBest Price: $18.00 |  How to Read and WhyBest Price: $5.87 ... we all know children in today's grade schools are moving farther away from books and a whole... |  Grandmother Remembers a Written Heirloom for My GrandchildBest Price: $7.95 This book provides many topics on which a Grandmother can write: family tree, anecdotes about... |
 How to Talk About Books You Haven't ReadBest Price: $7.97 I admit it was the quirky title that hooked me. The set of 4 cds are a wonderful tongue in cheek... |  Elements Of Pop Up: A Pop Up Book For Aspiring Paper EngineersBest Price: $15.20 When you first pick up this book, you'll be impressed. Inside are numerous small working... |  The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the NovelBest Price: $5.81 It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is no current literary critic who writes as... |  Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (LUST)Best Price: $2.42 I have to say I was disappointed by this book and would not have bought it if I had opened it up... |  Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common ReaderBest Price: $4.49 What this is is a collection of essays about books: reading them, shelving them, collecting... |
 Through the Eyes of a Child: An Introduction to Children's Literature (7th Edition)Best Price: $95.00 I have to agree with another review, this is a boring book; however, there is a lot of... |  The Delighted States: A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by Maps, ... & a Variety of Helpful IndexesBest Price: $14.50 Having slept with a prostitute in Egypt, a young French novelist named Gustave Flaubert at last... |  A History of ReadingBest Price: $7.22 Book titles can be misleading because they work under the assumption that hundreds of pages can... |  Madame Bovary (Norton Critical Editions)Best Price: $10.00 The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on Eleanor Marx Aveling's celebrated... |  Book Crush: For Kids and Teens - Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and InterestBest Price: $1.40 I bought Book Crush for my 14 year old daughter after reading Book Lust in the library, and she... |
 The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English DictionaryBest Price: $2.67 The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was a huge project, far larger than I would... |  Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You've Always Wanted to Read (Masterworks Series)Best Price: $11.98 While there are many "guides" to the Classics out there, this one is one of my husband... |  The Power of Reading, Second Edition: Insights from the ResearchBest Price: $21.87 throw away all your phonics rules and worksheets and Hooked on's. If you wish to read, then... |  The World is a Text: The Writing, Reading, and Thinking About Culture and Its Contexts (2nd Edition)Best Price: $25.00 Using poetry, fiction, photos, and essays, the book offers a colorful tour of the subtle and... |  The Man Who Made ListsBest Price: $4.17 I picked this one out because I loved The Professor and the Madman and thought the story of... |
 Book SmartBest Price: $7.93 Not reading the books that have endured in their reputation as literary gems for generation... |  How to Read a PoemBest Price: $11.60 I think this may be a book for people who have bought; read and enjoyed poetry beyond the duties... |  I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of MemoryBest Price: $7.00 [...] I also recall that, "At the root of utterance," Patricia Hampl writes,... |  Short Fiction: Classic and ContemporaryBest Price: $45.00 I've been impressed with this short fiction collection since way back in my undergrad days when... |  Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish BooksBest Price: $2.99 The best book I have read in a while. A must read. Dont waist time reading this review, just get... |
 A Passion for Books : A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating BooksBest Price: $7.65 I love this book. I borrowed a copy but quickly decided that I needed to buy my own. How else... |  Camus: The Stranger (A Student Guide: Landmarks of World Literature)Best Price: $14.15 This is a great book. I would recommend to anyone. It has a great story line and a wonderful... |  What Stories Does my son need?: A Guide to Books and Movies that Build Character in BoysBest Price: $5.00 I love Amazon's Search Inside the Book feature but in this case is it doing the author any... |  From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's BooksBest Price: $6.50 I get paid for writing reviews of children's books. Most of the books that I'm asked to review... |  How Reading Changed My LifeBest Price: $2.49 After eighteen years of being stereotyped as "the book worm," it's good to know that... |
 The Smithsonian Book of BooksBest Price: $24.99 I had been assigned this book for a college course on (duh) the history of books. Before the... |  1001 Ways to Market Your Books: For Authors and PublishersJohn Kremer's book has answered alot of questions that I had that I couldn't seem to get... |  The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern TextsBest Price: $6.68 I purchased "The Art of Fiction" as a companion to other reading materials required... |  Great Books for High School Kids: A Teacher's Guide to Books That Can Change Teens' LivesBest Price: $8.64 Excellent "Great Books" reference for High School Students. You can search... |  Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $2.29 In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic... |
 The Annotated Huckleberry FinnBest Price: $23.00 No repeats of the due praise by previous reviewers. If you have never read Huck Finn before, do... |  The Kids' Book Club Book: Reading Ideas, Recipes, Activities, and Smart Tips for Organizing Terrific Kids' Book ClubsBest Price: $0.24 This was helpful in getting info about starting a bookclub; however, it is mostly just... |  A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources And Contexts for Pynchon's NovelBest Price: $20.66 Why does Weisenburger decide to randomly drop spoiler after spoiler into his annotations? The... |  The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and ExpandedBest Price: $5.85 I haven't reviewed a book in a long time because customer reviews so often annoy me. Now I'm... |  Editions & Impressions: My Twenty Years on the Book BeatBest Price: $17.42 When I see Nicholas A. Basbanes on a book cover I know I have to read it, because no one else in... |
 Library: An Unquiet HistoryBest Price: $8.85 Mr Battles's "Library" is not a study for scholars but for general readers who will be... |  Honey for a Woman's HeartBest Price: $6.74 Both myself and my husband have enjoyed this book and "Honey for a Child's Heart". We... |  Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic OdditiesBest Price: $3.65 Ash and Lake are the champions of digging up literary howlers. Like trained pigs with noses for... |  The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as HistoryBest Price: $7.50 Norman Mailer gave a personal view of that time which included all different intellectual... | |
See also for General Books