…Anne Fadiman is an essayist, and is, simply put, a lot of fun to read. She wrote a book titled Ex Libris about her (and her family’s) life long love of books. It’s a great read, and in the last essay in this volume she recommends her favorite books about books, reading, and book collecting. This is a sampling of those titles that are here in ODY:
- Reading in Bed by John Wieners
- History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
- Kingdom of Books by William Dana Orcutt
- ABC for Book Collectors by John Carter
- A Gentle Madness, Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and an Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas Basbanes
- Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker
- The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf
Read on!