Read On...Life Stories
Reading Lists for Every Taste
Price: $30.00
ISBN13: 9781591587668
ISBN10: 1591587662
Book code: LU8766
Libraries Unlimited
Paperback
| 175 pages
Publication Date: 09/23/2009
Series: Read On Series
DESCRIPTION
With the genre of memoirs filled with so many titles and from such a variety of authors, it is hard to grasp what's available and what's worth reading. For all those who love delving into the lives of others, this Read On? volume offers help.
Read On?Life Stories: Reading Lists for Every Taste offers brief descriptions of nearly 450 published memoirs, from classics like The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, to recent bestsellers like John Grogan's Marley and Me and Julie Andrews' Home. Titles are grouped together by their appeal to readers, and there is something for everyone: humorous memoirs, thrilling adventure stories, chatty celebrity reminiscences, cathartic dramas of family dysfunction, fascinating career retrospectives, and insightful stories of family and personal lives in many eras and places.
Scores of appeal-based reading lists cover topics you'll never find in the library catalog?from extraordinary women and overcoming adversity to sports talk, spiritual journeys, and luminous prose.
Tuesdays with Morrie ? Angela's Ashes ? Dreams from My Father. Memoirs are a longtime staple of the nonfiction bestsellers list and much in demand at the library. Memoirs have also become front page news, especially in cases like James Frey's A Thousand Little Pieces, where the author's memories turned out to be fiction after all.
TITLE FEATURES
· Helps readers who enjoy life stories discover books they will love
· Categorizes memoirs in ways that speak to readers' taste
· Provides a useful reference source for book clubs, as well as readers' advisors in public and school libraries
· Nearly 450 brief descriptions of memoirs, categorized to help readers find the life stories that intrigue them most
· An index covering authors, titles, locations, eras, professions, ethnicity, and genres
Rosalind Reisner is a writer, speaker, and librarian who presents programs and writes about books, reading, and readers' advisory services.