The Reader
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
This text offers a collection of what Ali Smith has loved over the course of her reading life, in her twenties, as a teenager, and a child. It features writers like Plath, Grassic Gibbon, Spark, Morgan, Grace Paley, Yeats, Atwood.
Liked The Reader? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked The Reader. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else Shares books about, nonfiction, memoir -
The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read Shares books about, nonfiction, books on -
Foreign Parts Shares fiction, literature -
Tolkien's Gown & Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books Shares books about, nonfiction, books on
“People who read The Reader tend to reach for these next.”
“If you want more of the same, start with these.”
“If it was the books about that hooked you, try one of these.”
-
The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit
-
Defining Moments in Books: The Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events that Shook the Literary World
- A Year of Reading: A Month-By-Month Guide to Classics and Crowd-Pleasers for You or Your Book Group
-
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World
