Nancy Pearl's Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
(LIST UNDER CONSTRUCTION… This is a LONG list).
From "A… My Name is Alice" to "Zero: This Will Mean Nothing To You", here are all the books featured in Seattle Librarian Nancy Pearl’s "Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason".
Introduction = 1-33
A… My Name is Alice = 34-63
Academia: The Joke = 64-77
Academic Mysteries = 78-83
Action Heroines = 84-89
Adventure by the Book: Fiction = 90-97
Adventure by the Book: Nonfiction = 98-107
Africa: Today and Yesterday = 108-114
African American Fiction: He Say = 115-138
African American Fiction: She Say = 139-178
African Colonialism: Fiction = 179-188
African Literature in English = 189-196
Aging = 197-198
Alaska = 199-205
American History: Nonfiction = 206-211
American History: Fiction = 212-219
American Indian Literature = 220-237
Armchair Travel = 238-247
Art Appreciation = 248-254
Asian American Experiences = 255-271
Astronomical Ideas = 272-283
Australian Fiction = 284-306
Babies: A Reader’s Guide = 307-310
Balkan Specters = 311-318
Hamilton Basso: Too Good to Miss = 319-326
BBB: Best Business Books = 327-332
Bicycling = 333-343
Biographical Novels = 344-352
Bird Brains = 353-362
Black Humor = 363-365
Bomb Makers = 366-372
Books About Books = 373-385
Boys Coming of Age = 386-395
Brothers and Sisters = 396-402
Frederick Busch: Too Good To Miss = 403-427
California, Here We Come = 428-450
Canadian Fiction = 451-476
Cat Crazy = 477-494
Chick Lit = 495-513
China Voices = 514-528
Christmas Books for the Whole Family to Read = 529-539
Civil War Fiction = 540-553
Civil War Nonfiction = 554-573
The Classical World = 574-599
Cold War Spy Fiction = 600-609
Companion Reads: Hispanic in America = 610-612
Companion Reads: Southern Life = 613-614
Companion Reads: Single Women = 615-616
Companion Reads: Iran = 617-619
Companion Reads: The Dark Continent = 620-623
Companion Reads: Bigfoot = 624-625
Companion Reads: America in Vietnam = 626-627
Companion Reads: Mississippi = 628-629
Companion Reads: Jane Eyre = 630-632
Companion Reads: Sara and Gerald Murphy = 633-635
Companion Reads: The West = 636-637
Companion Reads: Women in the Far East = 638-639
Companion Reads: Mary Hallock Foote = 640-641
Companion Reads: Watching Life Without Fully Participating In It = 642-45
Les Crimes Noir = 646-671
Cuba Si! = 672-689
Cyberspace.com = 690-704
Czech it Out = 705-721
A Dickens of a Tale = 722-730
Dinosaur Hunting = 731-737
Do Clothes Make the Man (Or Woman)? = 738-743
Dreaming of Africa = 744-752
Ecofiction = 753-762
Elvis On My Mind = 763-771
Epistolary Novels: Take a Letter = 772-785
Essaying Essays = 786-799
Families in Trouble = 800-827
Fathers and Daughters = 828-835
Fathers and Sons = 836-840
First Lines to Remember = 841-849
First Novels = 850-884
Flying Above the Clouds = 885-899
Food for Thought = 900-918
George MacDonald Fraser: Too Good to Miss = 919-930
Gay and Lesbian Fiction: Out of the Closet = 931-960
Gear Up For Gardening = 961-964
Genuine Genes = 965-969
A Geography of Family and Place = 970-976
Ghost Stories = 977-989
Girls Growing Up = 990-1002
Graphic Novels = 1003-1012
Great Dogs in Fiction = 1013-1030
Grit Lit = 1031-1038
Growing Writers = 1039-1059
Robert Heinlein: Too Good to Miss = 1060-1065
Help Yourself = 1066-1077
Here Be Dragons: The Great Explorers & Expeditions = 1078-1087
Historical Fiction Around the World = 1088-1097
Historical Fiction For Kids of All Ages = 1098-1105
Humor = 1106-1113
I Love A Mystery = 1114-1230
Intriguing Novels = 1231-1235
Irish Fiction = 1236-1258
The Islamic World = 1259-1264
Islands, Desert and Otherwise = 1265-1268
Italian American Writers = 1269-1280
Japanese Fiction = 1281-1296
The Jewish American Experience = 1297-1326
Ward Just: Too Good To Miss = 1327-1341
King Arthur = 1342-1357
Kitchen-Sink Poetry = 1358-1361
P. F. Kluge: Too Good To Miss = 1362-1367
Eric Kraft: Too Good To Miss = 1368-1375
Mark Kurlansky: Too Good To Miss = 1376-1379
Lady Travelers = 1380-1397
Latin American Fiction = 1398-1412
Jonathan Lethem: Too Good To Miss = 1413-1418
Elinor Lipman: Too Good To Miss = 1419-1425
Lost Weekends = 1426-1429
Magical Realism = 1430-1446
Ian McEwan = 1447-1456
Mechanical Men, Robots, Automatons, and Deep Blue = 1457-1465
Memoirs = 1466-1472
Mexican Fiction = 1473-1481
The Middle East = 1482-1487
Merle Miller: Too Good To Miss = 1488-1501
Montana: In Big Sky Country = 1502-1517
The Moon’s My Destination = 1518-1526
Mothers and Daughters = 1527-1532
Mothers and Sons = 1533-1554
Iris Murdoch: Too Good to Miss = 1555-1580
Music and Musicians = 1581-1586
My Own Private DUI = 1587-
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