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, June 20, 2021

Pg. 99: Rhiannon Graybill's "Texts after Terror"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Texts after Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible by Rhiannon Graybill . About the book , from...

Pg. 69: A. Natasha Joukovsky's "The Portrait of a Mirror"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Portrait of a Mirror : A Novel by A. Natasha Joukovsky . About the book , from the publisher: A stunning ...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Ten top guilty pleasure novels

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May Cobb earned her MA in literature from San Francisco State University, and her essays and interviews have appeared in the Washington Pos...

Pg. 99: Emily Klancher Merchant's "Building the Population Bomb"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Building the Population Bomb by Emily Klancher Merchant . About the book , from the publisher: Across the tw...

Gilles Legardinier's "The Paris Labyrinth," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Paris Labyrinth : A Novel by Gilles Legardinier . The entry begins: If I imagine the dream cast for a fi...
Friday, June 18, 2021

Good books filled with “bad” gays

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P. J. Vernon was born in South Carolina. Called a "rising star thriller writer" by Library Journal , Vernon's debut, When You...

Pg. 99: Jim Cullen's "Martin Scorsese and the American Dream"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Martin Scorsese and the American Dream by Jim Cullen . About the book, from the publisher: More than perhaps...

Pg. 69: Nev March's "Murder in Old Bombay"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: Murder in Old Bombay : A Mystery by Nev March . About the book , from the publisher: In 19th century Bombay, ...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Top ten books about public spaces

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Jonathan Lee is an award-winning, internationally bestselling novelist, editor, and screenwriter living in New York. His new novel is The G...

Pg. 99: Sujit Sivasundaram's "Waves Across the South"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram . About the book , from...

Q&A with Martine Bailey

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From my Q&A with Martine Bailey , author of  The Prophet : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? I didn’t f...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Nine books that explore the weirder side of reproduction

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Sara Flannery Murphy grew up in Arkansas, where she divided her time between Little Rock and Eureka Springs, a small artists’ community in ...

Pg. 99: Nina Rattner Gelbart's "Minerva’s French Sisters"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France by Nina Rattner Gelbart . About the b...

Pg. 69: Nick Jones's "The Shadows of London"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Shadows of London by Nick Jones . About the book , from the publisher: A time traveler’s work is never d...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Five sci-fi & fantasy books that set sail for adventure

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F.T. Lukens is the author of In Deeper Waters , So This is Ever After , and four young adult novels published through Interlude Press. Her ...

Pg. 99: Mia Bloom & Sophia Moskalenko's "Pastels and Pedophiles"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon by Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko . About the book , from ...

Q&A with Laurie Frankel

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From my Q&A with Laurie Frankel , author of  One Two Three : A Novel : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? ...
Monday, June 14, 2021

Third reading: D.W. Buffa on "Lord Jim"

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D.W. Buffa was a criminal defense attorney for 10 years and his Joseph Antonelli novels reflect that experience. The New York Times called...

Eight books for reality TV enthusiasts

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Alexandria Juarez is a Chicanx lesbian writer, editor, and pop culture enthusiast from Southern California. A recent graduate of the BFA Wr...

Pg. 69: Debra Bokur's "The Bone Field"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Bone Field by Debra Bokur . About the book, from the publisher: Celebrated travel writer Debra Bokur rev...
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