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.

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Six top books about crime & colonialism at the U.S.-Mexico border

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Bruce McCandless III grew up in the shadow of Houston’s Johnson Space Center during the Apollo and Skylab eras. He graduated from the Plan ...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Pg. 69: Margaret Verble's "When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky by Margaret Verble . About the book , from the publisher: Louise Erdrich...

Pg. 99: Claudia Goldin's "Career and Family"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity by Claudia Goldin . About the book , from the ...

Nine books about love, loss, and belonging set in the Caribbean

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Myriam J. A. Chancy , Guggenheim Fellow & HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College, is a Haitian-Canadian/American writer born in ...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

Pg. 99: Alessandra Tanesini's "The Mismeasure of the Self"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Mismeasure of the Self: A Study in Vice Epistemology by Alessandra Tanesini . About the book , from the ...

Five books on troublesome Windsor women

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Wendy Holden has written numerous books and is a celebrated journalist. She lives in England. Her latest novel is The Duchess . At Lit Hi...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

Pg. 99: Kate Clifford Larson's "Walk With Me"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer by Kate Clifford Larson . About the book , from the publisher:...

Four books featuring paintings that illuminate their characters

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Katie Lattari is the author of two novels, Dark Things I Adore (2021), her thriller debut, and American Vaudeville (2016), a small press ...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Seven funny novels about the internal politics of working at a newspaper

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Katherine Ashenburg is the prize-winning author of two novels, four non-fiction books and hundreds of articles on subjects that range from ...

Pg. 99: Emily Katz Anhalt's "Embattled"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny by Emily Katz Anhalt . About the book , from...

Pg. 69: David R. Slayton's "Trailer Park Trickster"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: Trailer Park Trickster by David R. Slayton . About the book, from the publisher: They are my harvest, and I ...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Six top literary works that might be horror novels

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James Han Mattson was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in North Dakota. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received grants fro...

Pg. 99: James McGrath Morris's "Tony Hillerman: A Life"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Tony Hillerman: A Life by James McGrath Morris . About the book , from the publisher: The author of eighteen...

Q&A with Bethany Ball

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From my Q&A with Bethany Ball , author of The Pessimists : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? Unconsciou...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

The seven weirdest high schools in literature

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Bethany Ball was born in Detroit and now lives in New York with her family. She is the author of What To Do About The Solomons and the ne...

Pg. 99: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas's "Unfree"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas . About the book , from the publishe...

Pg. 69: Georgie Blalock's "The Last Debutantes"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Last Debutantes : A Novel by Georgie Blalock . About the book , from the publisher: They danced the night...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Nine top books in magic and covens and spells

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For more than ten years, Fire Lyte has interviewed self-identified witches, fairy experts, goblin hunters, paranormal investigators, and eve...

Pg. 99: Audrey Watters's "Teaching Machines"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning by Audrey Watters . About the book , from the publis...

David R. Slayton's "Trailer Park Trickster," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: Trailer Park Trickster by David R. Slayton . The entry begins: In White Trash Warlock we meet Adam Binder...
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