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Index
Cover
Dedication
Introduction by Bethanne Patrick
Diana Abu-Jaber on "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
Heather B. Armstrong on "The Warmth of Other Suns" by Isabel Wilkerson
Margaret Atwood on "Grimm’s Fairy Tales"
Gina Barreca on "Remember Me" by Fay Weldon
Louis Bayard on "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
Mayim Bialik on "Hopscotch" by Julio Cortázar
Robin Black on "The Diary of Alice James"
Amy Bloom on "The Deptford Trilogy" by Robertson Davies
Deborah Blum on "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam"
Gesine Bullock-Prado on "Der Struwwelpeter" by Heinrich Hoffmann
Keith Carradine on "The Book of Daniel" by E. L. Doctorow
Maud Casey on "Man in the Holocene" by Max Frisch
Rosanne Cash on "Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Otis Chandler on "Dune" by Frank Herbert
Ron Charles on "Straight Man" by Richard Russo
Alexander Chee on "The Quest for Christa T." by Christa Wolf
Alan Cheuse on "Ulysses" by James Joyce
Caldecot Chubb on "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" by William Blake
Sofia Coppola on "The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Cat Cora on "The Art of Eating" by M. F. K. Fisher
Douglas Coupland on "The Andy Warhol Diaries"
Peter Coyote on "The Odyssey" by Homer
Lt. General Flora Darpino, US Army Judge Advocate General, on "The Best American Short Stories 2009"
Kenneth C. Davis on "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce
Tom Davis on "The Emerging Republican Majority" by Kevin Phillips
Nelson DeMille on "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
Liza Donnelly on "A Room of One’s Own" by Virginia Woolf
Dave Eggers on "Herzog" by Saul Bellow
Gillian Flynn on "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
Amanda Foreman on "Animal Farm" by George Orwell
Martin Frost on "The Making of the President 1960" by Theodore White
Tavi Gevinson on "Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders" by Lawrence Weschler
Lev Grossman on "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett
Tim Gunn on "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" by James Agee
Carla Hall on "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein
Tony P. Hall on the Bible
Jacob Hemphill on "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Juan Felipe Herrera on the poetry of Federico García Lorca
Dan Hesse on "The Republic" by Plato
Carl Hiaasen on "Car" by Harry Crews
Tommy Hilfiger on "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
Eric Idle on Life-Changing Books
Mira Jacob on "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Beverly Johnson on "John Adams" by David McCullough
Piper Kerman on "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
Porochista Khakpour on "Good Morning, Midnight" by Jean Rhys
Arleigh Kincheloe on "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Lily King on "It’s Not the End of the World" by Judy Blume
Jack Kingston on "How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling" by Frank Bettger
Jeff Kinney on "Inside the Box" by Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg
Julie Klam on "Marjorie Morningstar" by Herman Wouk
Nicholas Kristof on "Four Essays on Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin
Lisa Lampanelli on "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
Fran Lebowitz on How Reading Is Her Life
Yiyun Li on "Dream Tales and Prose Poems" by Ivan Turgenev
Laura Lippman on "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
Sarah MacLean on "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gregory Maguire on "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Judith Martin on "The Image" by Daniel Boorstin
Alexander McCall Smith on "Collected Shorter Poems" by W. H. Auden
Elizabeth McCracken on "Borrowed Time" by Paul Monette
Gail McGovern on "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss
David Mitchell on "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami
Brad Meltzer on "Justice League of America" #150
Kate Mulgrew on "The Country Girls" by Edna O’Brien
Celeste Ng on "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh
Susan Orlean on "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Ruth Ozeki on "The Pillow Book" by Sei Shonagon
Carolyn Parkhurst on "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Richard Peabody on "At Swim-Two-Birds" by Flann O’Brien
Nancy Pearl on "A Gay and Melancholy Sound" by Merle Miller
Jodi Picoult on "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
Gerald Richards on "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"
Melissa Rivers on "The Story of Ferdinand" by Munro Leaf
Al Roker on "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Richard Russo on "Pudd’nhead Wilson" by Mark Twain
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on "Krapp’s Last Tape" by Samuel Beckett
John Scalzi on "The People’s Almanac" by David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace
Elissa Schappell on "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
Liev Schreiber on "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
Jim Shepard on the collected works of J. D. Salinger
Rebecca Skloot on "Literary Journalism" by Mark Kramer and Norman Sims
Karin Slaughter on "Mystery and Manners" by Flannery O’Connor
Andrew Solomon on "Rootabaga Stories" by Carl Sandburg
Sree Srinivasan on "Tales from Shakespeare" by Charles and Mary Lamb
R.L. Stine on "Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi
Emma Straub on "Lunch Poems" by Frank O’Hara
Peter Straub on "Look Homeward, Angel" by Thomas Wolfe
J. Courtney Sullivan on "Nora Ephron Collected"
Plum Sykes on "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh
Glenn Taylor on "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Terry Tempest Williams on "Crossing to Safety" by Wallace Stegner
Vu Tran on "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" by C. S. Lewis
Luis Urrea on "Cup of Tea Poems" by Issa
Jess Walter on "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez
Sarah Waters on "The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter
Fay Weldon on Not Accumulating Books
Kate White on "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L’Engle
Meg Wolitzer on "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Sunil Yapa on "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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