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, March 21, 2024

Joanna Goodman's "The Inheritance," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Inheritance : A Novel by Joanna Goodman . The entry begins: If When they make The Inheritance into a...

Pg. 99: Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez's "How Sanctions Work"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfa...

Ten book recommendations inspired by Taylor Swift songs

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At B&N Reads Isabelle McConville shared ten Taylor Swift song-to-book recommendations , including: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylo...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Q&A with Ron Corbett

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From my Q&A with Ron Corbett , author of Cape Rage (A Danny Barrett Novel) : How much work does your title do to take readers into t...

Pg. 99: Emily Conroy-Krutz's "Missionary Diplomacy"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations by Emily Conroy-Krutz . Abo...

Eight top novels about divorce

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Rowan Beaird is a fiction writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review , The Southern Review , and The Common , am...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Pg. 69: Joanna Goodman's "The Inheritance"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Inheritance : A Novel by Joanna Goodman . About the book, from the publisher: From the bestselling autho...

Pg. 99: Elizabeth Pearson's "Extreme Britain"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Extreme Britain: Gender, Masculinity and Radicalization by Elizabeth Pearson . About the book, from the publ...

Seven novels about women on a journey to figure out who they are

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Phoebe McIntosh is an actress and playwright from London. She wrote and performed in a sell-out run of her first play, The Tea Diaries , at...
Monday, March 18, 2024

What is Chris Nickson reading?

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Featured at Writers Read: Chris Nickson , author of The Scream of Sins . His entry begins: At the moment, a variety of things seems to be ...

Six spooky & fantastical missing-persons stories

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Melissa Albert is the New York Times and indie bestselling author of the Hazel Wood series ( The Hazel Wood , The Night Country , Tales fr...

Pg. 99: Kristin M. Girten's "Sensitive Witnesses"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Sensitive Witnesses: Feminist Materialism in the British Enlightenment by Kristin M. Girten . About the book...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Q&A with Sydney Leigh

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From my Q&A with Sydney Leigh , author of Peril in Pink : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? The title...

Eight books for St. Patrick’s Day

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The Zoomer Book Club's Nathalie Atkinson tagged eight notable new reads in the Irish literary wave , including: WHERE THEY LIE by Cla...

Rachel Lyon's "Fruit of the Dead," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: Fruit of the Dead : A Novel by Rachel Lyon . The entry begins: There are many young actresses who could pl...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Five top Irish-themed books

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The Amazon Book Review editors tagged five of their favorite Irish reads , including: The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American ...

Pg. 99: David L. Kirchman's "Microbes"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change by David L. Kirchman . About the book, from the publisher: Fo...

Pg. 69: Laura McNeal's "The Swan's Nest"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Swan's Nest : A Novel by Laura McNeal . About the book , from the publisher: A tender and engrossing ...
Friday, March 15, 2024

Five of the best books inspired by classic novels

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Sophie Ratcliffe is professor of literature and creative criticism at the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall...

Pg. 99: Donna J. Nicol's "Black Woman on Board"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Acti...
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