How to Read and Why

How to Read and Why

By
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom

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312 books

Considered

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Annie
The Science Delusion
Before the Big Bang
When Dimple Met Rishi
Anna and the French Kiss
Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age
Design in nature
Be Angry But Don't Blow It

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175 books

Owned

Aetherson
JamesSupporter
Snuff
Bookbinding
Hearts in Atlantis
The Mirror of Her Dreams
Charlie the Choo-Choo
Dark One: Forgotten

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30 books

Books About Books

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orlando calva
How to Read and Why
Gateway to the great books
How Reading Changed My Life
Books That Changed History
The Library Book
The Paris Library

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128 books

Owned

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Jason Niro
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
A Mind at Play
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
1066: The Year of The Conquest
Meditations
Always follow the elephants

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466 books

To Sort

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Michael
Berlin Embassy
Echo Among Stars
Lost Library
Mage's Apprentice: The Complete Series
Don't Speak
Ant Farm

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166 books

Non Fiction To Read

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Darya
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
The hero with a thousand faces
Adrift
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
In Cold Blood
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

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153 books

Non Fiction

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Marcus
The Architecture of Happiness
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Mindsight
Latter-day Pamphlets
How to Read and Why
Mr. Jefferson
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1

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30 books

Self Development

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Marcus
The Enchiridion
A New Earth: Create a Better Life
Mindsight
How to Read and Why
Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
Simpleology
The Art of Non-Conformity

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50 books

Read 2024

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Fridge
Tears of Liscor
Latin by the Natural Method
Ecce Romani 1-3: Meeting the Family/Rome at Last/Home and School
Oxford Latin Course, Part I
A First Latin Reader
Latin for Beginners

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11 books

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Fridge
Fridge
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Tears of Liscor
The Quantum Thief
The Fractal Prince
The Fisherman
Perdido Street Station
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12 books

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

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170 books

Non Fiction

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Alfie Coleman
A Life in Parts
How to be Idle
Chaos
At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent Van Gogh
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

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501 books

Non Fiction

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Jack
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Iron Kingdom
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom
The Cancer Code
Drawing for Architecture
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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165 books

Priority

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Jack
The Rings of Saturn
Musashi
Cat's Cradle
Gardens of the Moon
Wraiths of the Broken Land
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom
Religion and the Rise of Western Culture: The Classic Study of Medieval Civilization

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21 books

Educating

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Jack
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Sexual personae
The Orthodox Church
The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mere Christianity

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4 books

Criticism

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Jack
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
The Weird and the Eerie
Interrupted Music
How to Read and Why