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.

Sunday, March 22, 2020

What is J. Albert Mann reading?

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Featured at Writers Read: J. Albert Mann , author of The Degenerates . Her entry begins: Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner Millie, V...

Pg. 99: Erin Hatton's "Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment by Erin Hatton . About the book , from the publisher: What do pri...

Five of the best books about female artists

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Annalena McAfee was born in London to a Scottish mother and a Glasgow-Irish father. She founded the Guardian Review , which she edited for ...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

Pg. 69: David Hofmeyr's "The Between"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Between by David Hofmeyr . About the book , from the publisher: In this rip-roaring, world-bending a...

Pg. 99: Philip Mark Plotch's "Last Subway"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City by Philip Mark Plotch . About the book , fro...

Six architecturally inspired novels

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Suzanne Redfearn is the award-winning author of three novels: Hush Little Baby , No Ordinary Life , and In An Instant . Born and raised on...
Friday, March 20, 2020

Stephanie Wrobel's "Darling Rose Gold," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel . The entry begins: The two main characters in Darling Rose Gold a...

Pg. 99: Peter Levine's "Defense Management Reform"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Defense Management Reform: How to Make the Pentagon Work Better and Cost Less by Peter Levine . About the b...

Nine fictional bad mothers in fiction

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Sarah Vaughan is a former Guardian journalist - news reporter and political correspondent - who always wanted to write fiction. Her latest...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Pg. 69: Stephanie Wrobel's "Darling Rose Gold"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel . About the book , from the publisher: In her compulsive, sharply-d...

What is David Hofmeyr reading?

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Featured at Writers Read: David Hofmeyr , author of The Between . His entry begins: King is the master of storytelling. Accept no substitu...

Pg. 99: Alexander Bukh's "These Islands Are Ours"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: These Islands Are Ours: The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia by Alexander Bukh ....

Top ten books about boarding school

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James Scudamore is the author of the novels English Monsters , Wreaking , Heliopolis and The Amnesia Clinic . He has received the Somerset...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Richard Fifield's "The Small Crimes Of Tiffany Templeton," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton by Richard Fifield . The entry begins: The Small Crimes Of Tiffany...

Pg. 69: Phillip Margolin's "A Reasonable Doubt"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: A Reasonable Doubt (Robin Lockwood Series #3) by Phillip Margolin . About the book , from the publisher: A ...

Pg. 99: William A. Callahan's "Sensible Politics"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Sensible Politics: Visualizing International Relations by William A. Callahan . About the book , from the p...

Ten great titles of historical fiction for Hilary Mantel fans

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At Lit Hub, Emily Temple tagged ten great historical novels that pick up on the themes or forms of Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy in some way ,...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Coffee with a canine: Richard Fifield & Frank and Oscar

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Featured at Coffee with a Canine: Richard Fifield & Frank and Oscar . The author, on his coffee date with Frank and Oscar: I’ve taken...

What is Bridget Tyler reading?

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Featured at Writers Read: Bridget Tyler , author of The Survivor : A Pioneer Novel . Her entry begins: Reading is part of honing your crea...

Pg. 99: Peter Fritzsche's "Hitler's First Hundred Days"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche . About the book ...
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