List Challenges
Travel Movies Books Food Other
Sign In
Trending
New
Popular
type to search
Sign In
 Make a List Browse Lists Search Lists Leaders Help / Contact Newsletter

The Best Books About Books: Reading About Reading Is Sometimes Better Than Reading

Jonathan Russell Clark is a staff writer for Literary Hub. He writes: "I love books. More than anything else. More than food.... More than friends (sorry, everyone). I'd rather read about a city than visit it. I'd rather read a person's work than converse with them. And sometimes, rather than read a book, I'd actually rather read a book ABOUT books".
This "challenge" is meant more as a list of suggestions rather than a star quest.
150 users · 1,040 views
 
from lithub.com · made by Markd9528
avg. score: 1 of 39 (1%)
required scores: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 
type to search

How many have you read?

Page 1 of 1
1
So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures (Maureen Corrigan)
So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures (Maureen Corrigan)
2
Hothouse (Boris Kachka)
Hothouse (Boris Kachka)
3
Roth Unbound (Roth Pierpoint)
Roth Unbound (Roth Pierpoint)
4
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America (Christopher Bram)
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America (Christopher Bram)
5
Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 (John Leonard)
Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 (John Leonard)
6
Axel's Castle (Edmund Wilson)
Axel's Castle (Edmund Wilson)
7
Forty-One False Starts (Janet Malcolm)
Forty-One False Starts (Janet Malcolm)
8
White Girls (Hilton Als)
White Girls (Hilton Als)
9
The Fun Stuff and Other Essays (James Wood)
The Fun Stuff and Other Essays (James Wood)
10
In Rough Country (Joyce Carol Oates)
In Rough Country (Joyce Carol Oates)
11
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (Geoff Dyer)
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (Geoff Dyer)
12
Changing My Mind (Zadie Smith)
Changing My Mind (Zadie Smith)
13
Where I'm Reading From (Tim Parks)
Where I'm Reading From (Tim Parks)
14
Off the Books: On Literature and Culture (J. Peder Zane)
Off the Books: On Literature and Culture (J. Peder Zane)
15
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living With Books (Michael Dirda)
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living With Books (Michael Dirda)
16
The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe (Ann Morgan)
The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe (Ann Morgan)
17
A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write (Melissa Pritchard)
A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write (Melissa Pritchard)
18
Unacknowledged Legislation (Christopher Hitchens)
Unacknowledged Legislation (Christopher Hitchens)
19
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism (John Updike)
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism (John Updike)
20
Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics (Stefan Collini)
Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics (Stefan Collini)
21
Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays (Cynthia Ozick)
Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays (Cynthia Ozick)
22
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End (Katie Roiphe)
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End (Katie Roiphe)
23
Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them (Tim Parks)
Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them (Tim Parks)
24
Everybody Behaves Badly (Lesley M. M. Blume)
Everybody Behaves Badly (Lesley M. M. Blume)
25
Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann (Frederic Spotts)
Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann (Frederic Spotts)
26
Known and Strange Things (Teju Cole)
Known and Strange Things (Teju Cole)
27
The View From the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction (Neil Gaiman)
The View From the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction (Neil Gaiman)
28
Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me (Teffi)
Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me (Teffi)
29
The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the War (C.D. Wright)
The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the War (C.D. Wright)
30
Nabakov's Favorite Word Is Mauve (Ben Blatt)
Nabakov's Favorite Word Is Mauve (Ben Blatt)
31
My Life With Bob : Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues (Pamela Paul)
My Life With Bob : Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues (Pamela Paul)
32
Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir (Jill Bialosky)
Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir (Jill Bialosky)
33
A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks (Angela Jackson)
A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks (Angela Jackson)
34
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays (Tom McCarthy)
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays (Tom McCarthy)
35
Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich (Michele K. Troy)
Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich (Michele K. Troy)
36
American Originality: Essays on Poetry (Louise Glück)
American Originality: Essays on Poetry (Louise Glück)
37
Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers (Graydon Carter)
Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers (Graydon Carter)
38
Gaslight: Lantern Slides From the Nineteenth Century (Joachim Kalka)
Gaslight: Lantern Slides From the Nineteenth Century (Joachim Kalka)
39
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live (Peter Orner)
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live (Peter Orner)
Page 1 of 1
 Your Results
Click the SHOW MY RESULTS button
above to calculate your results.
Up Next
Click books you've read
Trending Book Lists
Newsletter · Help/Contact · Privacy · Copyright Claim   © 2024 App Spring, Inc. · This product uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb.
Seen It - Movies & TV 
Android & iOS
Seen It is a new app from the creators of List Challenges. You can view movies and shows in one place and filter by streaming provider, genre, release year, runtime, and rating (Rotten Tomatoes, Imdb, and/or Metacritic). Also, you can track what you've seen, want to see, like, or dislike, as well as track individual seasons or episodes of shows. In addition, you can see the most watched/liked stuff amongst your friends. Learn more at SEENIT.FUN