Nancy Pearl's Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
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 = 1587-1614
New Mexico = 1615-1622
New Orleans = 1623-1634
New York, New York = 1635-1650
9/11 = 1651-1661
Lewis Nordan: Too Good To Miss = 1662-1669
Not Only For Kids: Fantasies for Grown-Ups =1670-1679
100 Good Reads, Decade by Decade: 1900s = 1680-1689
100 Good Reads, Decade by Decade: 1910s = 1690-1699
100 Good Reads, Decade by Decade: 1920s = 1700-1709
100 Good Reads, Decade by Decade: 1930s = 1710-1719
100 Good Reads, Decade by Decade: 1940s = 1720-1729
100 Good Reads, Decade by Decade: 1950s = 1730-1739
100 Good Reads, Decade by Decade: 1960s = 1740-1749
100 Good Reads, Decade by Decade: 1970s = 1750-1759
100 Good Reads, Decade by Decade: 1980s = 1760-1769
100 Good Reads, Decade by Decade: 1990s = 1770-1779
Our Primates, Ourselves = 1780-1785
Passage to India = 1786-1791
Pawns of History = 1792-1796
People You Ought To Meet = 1797-1809
Physicians Writing More Than Prescriptions = 1810-1816
Poetry: A Novel Idea = 1817-1829
Polish Poems and Prose = 1830-1837
Politics of Fiction = 1838-1844
The Postmodern Condition = 1845-1862
Richard Powers: Too Good To Miss = 1863-1873
Presidential Biographies = 1874-1894
Prose by Poets = 1895-1905
Pym’s Cup Runneth Over = 1906-1919
Real Characters = 1920-1935
Van Reid and The Moosepath League: Too Good To Miss = 1936-1938
Riding the Rails: Railroad History = 1939-1944
Rivers of Words = 1945-1954
Road Novels = 1955-1961
Romance Novels: Our Love is Here To Stay = 1962-1972
Romance Novels: Classic Romances = 1973-1986
Romance Novels: Contemporary Romances = 1987-1998
Romance Novels: Historicals = 1999-2010
Romance Novels: Paranormal = 2011-2016
Romance Novels: Regency = 2017-2021
Romans-Fleuves = 2022-2030
Russian Heavies = 2031-2050
Science Books (For the Interested but Apprehensive Layperson) = 2051-2060
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror = 2061-2140
Sea Stories = 2141-2156
Sex and the Single Reader = 2157-2168
Short Stories = 2169-2174
Shrinks and Shrinkers = 2175-2186
Southern Fiction = 2187-2219
Spies and Spymasters: The Really Real Unreal World of Intelligence = 2220-2238
Sports and Games = 2239-2246
Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe: Too Good To Miss = 2247-2299
Take Me Out To The Ballgame = 2300-2311
Teachers and Teaching Tales = 2312-2318
Techno-Thrillers = 2319-2327
Texas: A Lone Star State of Mind = 2328-2340
Ross Thomas: Too Good To Miss = 2341-2364
Three-Hanky Reads = 2365-2379
Gore Vidal’s Historical Novels: Too Good To Miss = 2380-2382
Vietnam = 2383-2391
Western Fiction = 2392-2408
Western Memoirs = 2409-2414
What a (Natural) Disaster = 2415-2424
What A Trial That Was! = 2425-2437
Wild Life = 2438-2447
Connie Willis: Too Good To Miss = 2448-2461
Women’s Friendships = 2462-2480
Words to the Wise = 2481-2486
World War I Fiction = 2487-2496
World War I Nonfiction = 2497-2503
World War II Fiction = 2504-2536
World War II Nonfiction = 2537-2548
Zen Buddhism and Meditation = 2549-2555
Zero: This Will Mean Nothing To You = 2556-2559
