Campaign for the American Reader

The official blog of the Campaign for the American Reader, an independent initiative to encourage more readers to read more books.

Friday, March 20, 2026

Q&A with Rob Phillips

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From my Q&A with Rob Phillips , author of Stakeouts and Strollers : A Mystery : How much work does your title do to take readers into ...

Five books for fans of "Project Hail Mary"

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At Book Riot Liberty Hardy tagged five "great reads about searching for new habitable planets, or encountering aliens, or both ."...

Pg. 69: Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr.'s "Tore All to Pieces"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: Tore All to Pieces by Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr. About the book, from the publisher: Nestled in the ...

Pg. 99: Matthew Avery Sutton's "Chosen Land"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity by Matthew Avery Sutton . About...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Albertine Clarke's "The Body Builders," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Body Builders : A Novel by Albertine Clarke . The entry begins: The Body Builders follows an alienate...

What is Ava Morgyn reading?

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Featured at Writers Read: Ava Morgyn , author of Only Spell Deep : A Novel . Her entry begins: I’m very much a mood reader, which means I ...

Five of the best celebrity/normal person romance novels

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Haruka Iwasaki is a writer and bookseller living in Brooklyn, NY. She writes personal essays about her Japanese American identity, grief an...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Q&A with Albertine Clarke

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From my Q&A with Albertine Clarke , author of The Body Builders : A Novel : How much work does your title do to take readers into the ...

Pg. 99: Frances Courtney Kneupper's "Prophecy and the Battle for Spiritual Authority, 1360–1400"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Prophecy and the Battle for Spiritual Authority, 1360–1400: Outsiders, Women, and Reformers by Frances Courtn...

Seven top darkly surreal Irish books

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Eoghan Walls is a Northern Irish poet from Derry. He has lived and worked in Ireland, Britain, Germany and Rwanda. He won an Eric Gregory A...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Megan Jauregui Eccles's "Sing the Night," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: Sing the Night by Megan Jauregui Eccles . The entry begins: Since Sing the Night is a Phantom of the Ope...

Six books for fans of the movie "Sinners"

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Erica Ezeifedi is a writer, editor, and advocate currently serving as an Associate Editor at Book Riot . For the site she tagged six "b...

Pg. 69: Ava Morgyn's "Only Spell Deep"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: Only Spell Deep : A Novel by Ava Morgyn . About the novel, from the publisher: Rebecca meets The Craft in ...

Pg. 99: Garrett Peck's "The Bright Edges of the World"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop by Garrett Peck . About the book, from the pu...
Monday, March 16, 2026

Q&A with Dan Buzzetta

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From my Q&A with Dan Buzzetta , author of The Winter Verdict : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? If...

What is Lyla Lane reading?

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Featured at Writers Read: Lyla Lane , author of The Best Little Motel in Texas : A Novel . Her entry begins: I just finished Murder Bimbo ...

Six thrillers that feature contagions & pandemics

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Alice Martin is a writer, reader, and teacher from North Carolina. She holds a PhD in Literature from Rutgers University and works as an Ass...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr.'s "Tore All to Pieces," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: Tore All to Pieces by Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr . The entry begins: Tore All to Pieces is a fragme...

Five mystery novels set in the aftermath of WWII

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Shaina Steinberg is the author of the Bishop & Gallagher Mysteries, as well as a film and television writer who’s worked on Malcolm in ...

Pg. 99: Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas's "When the Good Life Goes Bad"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: When the Good Life Goes Bad: The US and Its Seven Deadly Sins by Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas . About the book, fr...

Pg. 69: Lyla Lane's "The Best Little Motel in Texas"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Best Little Motel in Texas : A Novel by Lyla Lane . About the book, from the publisher: A charming, edgy...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

Q&A with Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr.

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From my Q&A with Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr. , author of Tore All to Pieces : How much work does your title do to take readers in...

Pg. 99: Patricia Seed's "Sails and Shadows"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Sails and Shadows: How the Portuguese Opened the Atlantic and Launched the Slave Trade by Patricia Seed . Ab...

Five books about breaking up with your friend

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Sarvat Hasin is a novelist and dramaturg from Pakistan. She has a masters in creative writing from the University of Oxford. Her first nove...
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