Campaign for the American Reader

Now showing at My Book, The Movie: Karen Miller's Empress . Miller's entry begins: Hollywood being what it is, the chances of this, ...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Marisa Silver's The God of War . About the book , from the publisher: The year is 1978. Ares Ra...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: John A. Adam's Mathematics in Nature: Modeling Patterns in the Natural World . About the book ...

Harlan Coben talked to the Christian Science Monitor about what he's been watching and listening to. And reading: I've been read...

For the Wall Street Journal , Frances Kiernan named a five best list of books that helped her understand "the ways of New York society....

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger . About the book , from the publisher: Introducing a major lite...

The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Katharine Weber , author, most recently, of Triangle , which was longlisted for the 2008 ...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: David Ownby's Falun Gong and the Future of China . About the book , from the publisher: On Apri...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Elisa Albert's The Book of Dahlia . About the book , from the publisher: From the author of the...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Elizabeth Zelvin's Death Will Get You Sober . About the book , from the publisher: On Christmas...

The latest contributor to Writers Read: Brenda Cooper , technology professional, science fiction writer, and futurist. One book she mentions...

Now showing at My Book, The Movie: the "Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries" by Jane Cleland . Cleland took the My Book, The Movie c...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Joseph Olshan's The Conversion . About the book , from the publisher: Russell Todaro, a young A...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Lawrence Weinstein and John A. Adam's Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Ba...

Regular visitors to this site will recognize most of the writers associated with the " The Outfit ," the collective of Chicago are...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Jennifer Cody Epstein's The Painter from Shanghai . About the book , from the publisher: Remini...

The (U.K.) Telegraph came up with "the perfect library," 110 books across several categories--classics, poetry, literary fiction,...

The current featured contributor to Writers Read: James Gustave Speth , author of The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Envi...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Robert Bartlett's The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages . About the book , from t...

The jazz singer Dianne Reeves talked to the Christian Science Monitor about what she's been watching and listening to. And reading: ...