All children’s books are de facto celebrations of the joy of reading, right?

We would all gather around the big shipping boxes and cut them open, then we’d each reach in for a copy, open it up, and put our noses to the pages.

What happens when a writer learns that he doesn’t quite have as much control over his book as he thinks?

published 2014, avg rating 4.51 —


When a wonderful new book arrives at the library, at first it is loved by all, checked out constantly, and rarely spends a night on the library shelf. Read This! for parents who want to plant and nurture the love of reading in their children. How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen, 68.

37,436 ratings — But some books zero in more finely, and with much more open-hearted feeling, on the pure joy of reading.

published 2013, avg rating 4.32 —

Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda, 61. Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, 90. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, 88.
When it arrives, their cheeks blush with hope, like Pari’s magenta dress against Grimard’s richly nuanced saffron sand and sky.

Or that books could bring them together—and change everything.

The Summer We Read Gatsby by Danielle Ganuk, 42. 22,789 ratings — From a Kabul library bus to a Colombian garbage collector’s classics to the woman who brought Ferdinand the Bull to post-World War II Germany.

published 1940, avg rating 4.14 — The picture books gathered here are just the tip of the iceberg (or the edge of the bookshelf?)

This picture book about reading playfully and movingly illustrates the idea that the reader who discovers the love of reading finds, at the end, the beginning. The way they look on your shelf. published 2001, avg rating 3.41 — How to Read People Like a Book: A Guide to Speed-Reading People, Understand Body Language and Emotions, Decode Intentions, and Connect Effortlessly (Communication Skills Training Book 2) James … 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity, At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries, Bibliotopia: Or, Mr. Gilbar’s Book of Books & Catch-All of Literary Facts & Curiosities, Book Crush: For Kids and Teens – Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Interest, Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason, The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You’ll Never Read, Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller’s Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home, Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books, The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession, My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop, The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You, A Passion for Books: A Book Lover’s Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books, The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them, The Polysyllabic Spree: A Hilarious and True Account of One Man’s Struggle with the Monthly Tide of the Books He’s Bought and the Books He’s Been Meaning to Read, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places, Read This! The Best Informational Books for Toddlers, Kid-Approved Books for Struggling Second and Third Grade Readers, The 50 Best Books for 11- and 12-Year-Olds, 15 Classics That 8- to 12-Year-Olds Say Are Worth Reading Today, 21 Middle Grade & Chapter Books to Dive Into This Fall 2020, 15 YA Books to Look Forward to in Fall 2020, 10 Books That Promote Positive Thinking in Teens, Pride and Less Prejudice: LGBTQIA+ Books for Teens, By submitting my email, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House's.

Giant book spines replace high-rise facades; pencils (Phumiruk’s illustration medium) replace tree trunks and pointy rooftops. It was not until both books were published that we realised they were, in a sense, twins: his concerned with the disorientating anguish of exile, and mine with the melancholy joy of homecoming. Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places by Rebecca Rego Barry, 84. The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler, 8. published 2011, avg rating 4.54 —

“Ahhh, the smell of fresh books,” someone would always say, breathing in the inky scent. 9,407 ratings — The way the pages feel.

She knows that very reluctant reader Missy could love books too — she just hasn't found the right one yet!

Inkheart (Inkworld #1) by Cornelia Funke, 23. A little girl sails her raft across a sea of words, arriving at the house of a small boy and calling him away on an adventure. When you’re a true-blue “book person,” you love everything about books: The way they smell. A monster?! published 2006, avg rating 4.15 — (Ages 4 and up), DIGGING FOR WORDS: José Alberto Gutíerrez and the Library He BuiltWritten by Angela Burke KunkelIllustrated by Paola Escobar. 3,691 ratings —

2,751 ratings —

The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids by Sarah Mackenzie If I had to choose one book about books to share, it would be this one.

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