The list of 1543 books readers may want to try, culled from previous What Do I Read Next? collections, are arranged alphabetically by author, then title. The author's name is followed by the book title, publisher, story type (adult, modern, traditional, quest, revenge, chase, etc.), a list of major characters, time period, locale, plot summary, and a list of "other books you might like." The summaries are brief and written with an eye toward roping...

In a prolific life of singular literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded in a variety of genres: in coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show; in collections of essays like In a Narrow Grave; and in the reinvention of the Western on a grand scale in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove. Now, in Books: A Memoir, McMurtry writes about his endless passion for books: as a boy growing up in a largely "bookless" world; as a young...

High school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the bookstore he inherited when a talking cat named Tiger recruits him to save books. Together, they journey into mazes to set books free.

Spanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this masterful collection of twenty-five illustrious and moving essays on the power of the written word. Throughout American history black people are the only group of people to have been forbidden by law to learn to read. This unique collection seeks to shed light on that injustice and subjugation, as well as the hard-won...

The author and the characters from the Pooh books engage in dialogue elucidating the Taoist principle of Te, the Way of the Small.

A boy who wants to fly discovers the many ways that books can take him to the greatest heights.

"The arrival of donkeys, a zebra, monkeys, and a slew of other animals upends the narrator's plans for a very serious book"--

"A page turns every time you blink, bringing you closer to the end of the book--and bedtime"--