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.

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Top ten books about gardening

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Lulah Ellender is a writer based in East Sussex. Her first book, Elisabeth’s Lists: A Life Between the Lines , was published by Granta in 2...

Pg. 99: Terence Dooley's "Burning the Big House"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution by Terence Dooley...

Pg. 69: C.S.E. Cooney's "Saint Death's Daughter"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: Saint Death's Daughter (Book #1 of Saint Death Series) by C.S.E. Cooney . About the book , from the publ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Five books on the romance and wonder of Victorian science

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Nicole Yunger Halpern is a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), a theoretical physicist at the ...

Pg. 99: David Silkenat's "Scars on the Land"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat . About the b...

Q&A with Andrea Yaryura Clark

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From my Q&A with Andrea Yaryura Clark , author of On a Night of a Thousand Stars : How much work does your title do to take readers int...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Ten top crime novels with isolated settings

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After studying English at university, Nell Pattison became a teacher and specialized in Deaf education. She has been teaching in the Deaf c...

Pg. 99: Lee Alan Dugatkin's "Power in the Wild"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others by Lee Alan Dugat...

Pg. 69: Philip Gray's "Two Storm Wood"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: Two Storm Wood : A Novel by Philip Gray . About the book, from the publisher: In this thriller set on the bat...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Q&A with C.S.E. Cooney

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From my Q&A with C.S.E. Cooney , author of  Saint Death's Daughter : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story...

Five unconventional heists in SFF

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Marion Deeds was born in Santa Barbara, California and moved to northern California when she was five. She loves the redwoods, the ocean, d...

Pg. 99: Kevin Maurer's "Damn Lucky"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History by Kevin Maurer ...

Philip Gray's "Two Storm Wood," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: Two Storm Wood : A Novel by Philip Gray . The entry begins: Two Storm Wood is a period thriller largely se...
Sunday, April 17, 2022

Ten novels about art and artists

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Jennifer Murphy holds an MFA in painting from the University of Denver and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington. Sh...

Pg. 99: Theresa Kaminski's "Queen of the West"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Queen of the West: The Life and Times of Dale Evans by Theresa Kaminski . About the book , from the publisher...

Pg. 69: Aaron Angello's "The Fact of Memory"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and Fabrications by Aaron Angello . About the book , from the publisher:...
Saturday, April 16, 2022

Six novels about power, deception, and control

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Stacey Halls was born in Lancashire and worked as a journalist before her debut, The Familiars , was published in 2019. The Familiars was ...

Pg. 99: Alex J. Kay's "Empire of Destruction"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing by Alex J. Kay . About the book , from the publisher: T...

Q&A with Philip Gray

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From my Q&A with Philip Gray , author of Two Storm Wood : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? Two Storm ...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Five top books about telepathy

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Brendan Bellecourt was raised in the cold climes of rural Wisconsin, where he lives still with his family and trio of cats. His love of sci...
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