100 One-Night Reads: A Book Lover's Guide - Tapa blanda

Literary anecdotes, author insights, and an essay assessing what makes a book special accompany a collection of one hundred books, selected by the authors to be read in a single evening, including fiction and nonfiction works by Russell Baker, Raymond Chandler, Edith Wharton, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Dylan Thomas, and Walter Mosley, among others. Original. 12,500 first printing.

ywhere know that nothing soothes the spirit like sinking into a really good book. If you're one of that happy band, you'll quickly recognize the authors of this inspired reading guide as kindred spirits. Here David and John Major have chosen one hundred books that can each be delightfully consumed in one quiet evening. Covering categories from fantasy to fiction, history to humor, mystery to memoir, this addictive volume features books to match all your moods—by both celebrated writers and gifted unknowns, including:

·  Russell Baker  ·  Willa Cather  · Raymond Chandler  ·  F. Scott Fitzgerald  · Graham Greene  ·  Edith Hamilton  ·  Dashiell Hammett  ·  Helene Hanff  ·  Ernest Hemingway  ·  Patricia Highsmith  · Shirley Jackson  ·  Henry James  ·  W. Somerset Maugham  ·  Mary McCart