Introduction / Roxanne J. Coady
Dorothy Allison on Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Kate Atkinson on Robert Coover's Pricksongs and Descants
James Atlas on Gwendolyn Brooks's Selected Poems
Robert Ballard on Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth
Gina Barreca on Jean Kerr's The Snake Has All the Lines
Nicholas A. Basbanes on the Works of Shakespeare
Graeme Base on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Jeff Benedict on The Little Engine That Could
Elizabeth Berg on J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Amy Bloom on The Most of P.G. Wodehouse
Harold Bloom on John Crowley's Little, Big
Lary Bloom on John Hersey's Hiroshima
Chris Bohjalian on Joyce Carol Oates's Expensive People and More
Steven Brill on Theodore H. White's The Making of the President, 1960
Benjamin Cheever on Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death
Da Chen on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo
Harriet Scott Chessman on Gertrude Stein's Ida
Brother Christopher on Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain
Carol Higgins Clark on Mary Higgins Clark's A Stranger Is Watching
Billy Collins on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's The Yearling and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
Claire Cook on Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew Mysteries
Caroline B. Cooney on Caesar's Gallic Wars
Patricia Cornwell on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Maureen Corrigan on Charles Dickens's David Copperfield
Nelson DeMille on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and More
Tomie dePaola on Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter
Anita Diamant on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
Dominick Dunne on Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now
Carlos Eire on Thomas a Kempis's The Imitation of Christ
Linda Fairstein on Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doris Kearns Goodwin on Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August
Linda Greenlaw on Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm
David Halberstam on Cecil Woodham-Smith's The Reason Why
Alice Hoffman on J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Sebastian Junger on Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Paul Kennedy on Geoffrey Barraclough's An Introduction to Contemporary History
Tracy Kidder on Ernest Hemingway's Collected Stories
Robert Kurson on Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death
Wally Lamb on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Anne Lamott on Ram Dass's The Only Dance There Is and More
Barbara Leaming on Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams
Senator Joe Lieberman on the Bible
Margot Livesey on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Senator John McCain on Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
Frank McCourt on William Shakespeare's Henry VIII
Faith Middleton on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Jacquelyn Mitchard on Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Leigh Montville on Ed McBain's 87th Precinct Series
Sara Nelson on Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar and Susan Isaacs's Compromising Positions
Sherwin B. Nuland on William Lewis Nida's Ab the Cave Man
Laura Numeroff on Kay Thompson's Eloise
Stewart O'Nan on William Maxwell's So Long, See You Tomorrow
Jacques Pepin on Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus
Anne Perry on G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday
Jack Prelutsky on Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses and More
Ian Rankin on Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange
Richard Rhodes on Albert Schweitzer's Out of My Life and Thought and Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle Series
Frank Rich on Moss Hart's Act One
SARK on Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Lisa Scottoline on Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., on William Saroyan's The Human Comedy
Liz Smith on Christopher Morley's Kitty Foyle and Guy Endore's Voltaire! Voltaire!
Edward Sorel on Stendhal's The Red and the Black
Jane Stern on John Barth's The End of the Road
Michael Stern on the Sears Catalogue
Alexandra Stoddard on Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet
Paco Underhill on C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower Series
Susan Vreeland on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Kate Walbert on E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
Katharine Weber on Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse
Jacqueline Winspear on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
The Books That Changed Their Lives : A Reading List of the Books Selected by the Contributors
Roxanne's Very Opinionated Reading List
Joy's Very Opinionated Reading List
