A History of Reading

A History of Reading

By
Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel
1996 • 558 pages

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126 books

Owned TBR

ashley
Ashley
Villette
Far From the Madding Crowd
Northanger Abbey
Hard Times
Bleak House
Brideshead Revisited
Orlando

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451 books

Read Before 2010

perian
Cid
The Dog Is Not a Toy: House Rule #4
So You Want to Be a Wizard
The Elvenbane
In the Garden of Iden: A Novel of the Company
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Redwall

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725 books

Interesting To Check

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Marie Claude Gagnon
Celui qui reste
I Let You Go
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
The English Patient
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
The Golden Compass
The High Mountains of Portugal

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29 books

Books About Books

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Marie Claude Gagnon
The Shadow of the Wind
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Thirteenth Tale
Ex Libris
The Eyre Affair
84, Charing Cross Road
Book Lust

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26 books

To Buy

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Marie
Lucky Man
All Men Are Liars
Everyone communicates, few connect : what the most effective people do differently
George Michael: The Biography
Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrows Success

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126 books

Non Fiction

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Jenny
On Photography
Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
Reborn
Women
Chronicles: Volume One
Just Kids

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172 books

Non Fiction

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anjali
The God Delusion
The Road Ahead
The Diary of a Young Girl
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
The Tao Of Physics: An Exploration Of The Parallels Between Modern Physics And Eastern Mysticism
The Story of Philosophy
A Short History of Nearly Everything

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21 books

Literature

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Fool
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent
On Literature
Writings on China
The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400–1600
Limits of language

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33 books

2014

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Eva
Das Glasperlenspiel
Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive
Arcadia
Galatea 2.2
The group
The Bug

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249 books

Non Fiction

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Eva
Men Explain Things to Me
When Breath Becomes Air
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Thank You for Being Late
Lab Girl
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
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62 books

Bestreads

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Utsob Roy
ছবির দেশে, কবিতার দেশে
কবি
জোছনা ও জননীর গল্প
সমগ্র শিশুসাহিত্য
হ য ব র ল
Forward the Foundation

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25 books

History

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Utsob Roy
A People's History of the United States
Early Indians
The Ministry of Truth
Humans
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
The Drowned and the Saved
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

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1,393 books

Não Ficção

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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
The Woman in Me
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

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2,644 books

Entre 200 E 400 Pags

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Meg
Girl in Pieces
The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The Joy Luck Club
Psycho
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Bad Girls Don't Die
Misery

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244 books

Essays

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Meg
Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar
Girlhood
But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits
Cool, Calm & Contentious
Cracks in My Foundation: Bags, Trips, Make-Up Tips, Charity, Glory, and the Darker Side of the Story: Essays and Stories by Marian Keyes

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41 books

Gelişim

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Kaan
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less
Zaman Yaratmak: Önemli Olana Odaklanma Sanatı
Atomik Alışkanlıklar
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

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7 books

Kurgu Dışı

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Kaan
A History of Reading
Kitapları Nasıl Okumalı
Work: A History of How we spend our Time
Aklıselim
Thinking in systems : a primer
Hikâye Anlatıcılığının Bilimi

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173 books

Mandy Brown A Working Library

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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Aurora
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness
Thinking Small
The Lathe of Heaven
Ancillary Justice
Ancillary Sword

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Htr

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Jonathan
Literary Theory : An Introduction
How to Read Literature
How to Read and Why
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
How Fiction Works