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“The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.”
— Dr. J.A. Langford

“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”
— Martin Luther [1483-1546]

“A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
— scientist & TV host Carl Sagan [1934-96]

“The book [that] you don’t read won’t help.”
motivational speaker Jim Rohn [1930-2009]

“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”
author Roald Dahl [1916-90]

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
Mark Twain [1835-1910]

“When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched three fold.”
— Henry Miller [1891-1980] in "The Books In My Life" [1952]


          The Babylonians wrote on clay tablets; the Egyptians wrote on rolls of papyrus; medieval scholars wrote on rolls of vellum, and then switched to bound books. The Chinese invented paper in the Second Century CE, which spread to the Middle East in the Eighth Century and to Europe in the Eleventh Century. Johannes Gutenberg [1400?-68] invented the printing press and movable type (1439) which made the Renaissance possible.

          Melvil Dewey [1851-1931] created his proprietary system of library resource classification at the age of 21 while working at the Amherst College library; the Dewey Decimal System was first published in 1876 and is now widely used around the world. The system allows us to locate resources by topic assigned to one of 10 classes. The 10 main groups are 000–099 general works (including 092 for fiction, shelved by author); 100-199, philosophy & psychology; 200-299, religion; 300-399, social sciences; 400-499, language; 500-599, natural sciences & mathematics; 600-699, technology; 700-799, the arts; 800-899, literature & rhetoric; and 900-999, history, biography & geography.

          The business computer became available in 1959, followed by the personal computer (Altair 8800 in 1973, Apple II in 1977, IBM PC in 1981), and the handheld personal digital assistant (PDA) in 1992. Amazon was founded in 1994 and the Kindle ebook reader was launched in 2008.
          Given the choice between paper books and Kindle ebooks for a particular publication, more than half of Amazon's customers are choosing the ebook.

I'd Rather Be Reading Library of Art book by Guinevere De La Mare  "I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art For Book Lovers" [2017]
by Guinevere De La Mare

artwork by Jane Mount, Lisa Congdon, Julia Rothman, and Sophie Blackall, text by Ann Patchett, Maura Kelly, and Gretchen Rubin - 'rounded out with poems, quotations, and aphorisms celebrating the joys of reading'
96-page Kindle Edition from Chronicle Books [8/2017] for $1.20 {sic}
96-page Chronicle Books 7¼x5¼ hardcover [8/2017] for $9.97
I'd Rather Be Reading book by Anne Bogel  "I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of The Reading Life" [2018]
by Anne Bogel
- essays from the author's popular podcast "What Should I Read Next?"
Kindle Edition from Baker Books [9/2018] for $9.99
Baker Books 7x5¼ hardcover [9/2018] for $10.52
Wonderworks Powerful Literature book by Angus Fletcher  "Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions In The History of Literature" [2021]
by Angus Fletcher of Ohio State’s Project Narrative

author describes the history of the personal & social psychological effects of reading literature
Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster [3/2021] for $14.99
Simon & Schuster 9x6 hardcover [3/2021] for $25.32


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Banned  Books
Banned Books Week [est. 1982] official website
Banned Books Week entry at Wikipedia
'book censorship in USA' entry at Wikipedia
Banned Books Store [returns 330+ titles] at Amazon
National Coalition Against Censorship [est. 1973] is based in New York City
Banned Books Database [online 2021] at Every Library Institute [est. 2018]
Top 13 Most-Challenged Books list at American Library Association [est. 1876]

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Classic Targets

"A Wrinkle In Time" [1962] by Madeleine L'Engle [1918-2007]

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [1885 novel] by Mark Twain [1835-1910]

"Animal Farm" [1945 novel] by George Orwell [1903-50]

"Catcher In The Rye" [1951 novel] by J.D. Salinger [1919-2010]

Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel "The Color Purple" [1982] by Alice Walker [b. 1944]

"Fahrenheit 451" [1953 novel] by Ray Bradbury [1920-2012]

"The Giver" dystopian novel [1993] by Lois Lowry

Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Grapes of Wrath" realist novel [book 1939, movie 1940] by Nobel-laureate John Steinbeck [1902-68]
Obscene in the Extreme book by Rick Wartzman  
"Obscene In The Extreme: The Burning & Banning of John
Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath" [2008] by Rick Wartzman

PublicAffairs 9x5½ pb [9/2009] for $11.21
PublicAffairs 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2008] for $20.48

"The Handmaid’s Tale" [1985] by Margaret Atwood

"Harry Potter" Books & Movies by J.K. Rowling

"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" autobiography [1969] by Maya Angelou [1928-2014]

"The Kite Runner" first novel [2003] by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini

"Lord of The Flies" [1954 novel] by William Golding [1911-93]

"Nineteen Eighty-Four" [1949 novel] by George Orwell [1903-50]

"Of Mice and Men" [1937] by Nobel-laureate John Steinbeck [1902-68]

"One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" [1962 novel] by Ken Kesey [1935-2001]

"The Scarlet Letter" [1850 novel] by Nathaniel Hawthorne [1804-64]

"Slaughterhouse Five" [1969] by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007]

"To Kill A Mockingbird" [1960 novel] by Harper Lee [1926-2016]

Recent Targets

"A Court of Mist and Fury" [2016] by Sarah J. Maas

"The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian" [2007] by Sherman Alexie

"All Boys Aren't Blue" [2020] by George M. Johnson

"And Tango Makes Three" children's book [2005] by Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell, Illustrated by Henry Cole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Tango_Makes_Three

"The Bluest Eye" [1970] by Toni Morrison [1931-2019]

Newbery Medal-winner "Bridge To Terabithia" children's novel [1977] by Katherine Paterson, Illustrated by Donna Diamond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_to_Terabithia_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_to_Terabithia_(1985_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_to_Terabithia_(2007_film)

"Crank" [2004] by Ellen Hopkins

"Flamer" [2020] by Mike Curato

"Forever ..." novel [1975] by Judy Blume

"Gender Queer: A Memoir" [2019] by Maia Kobabe

"The House On Mango Street" novel [1984] by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_on_Mango_Street

"Lawn Boy" [2018] by Jonathan Evison

"Looking For Alaska" [2005] by John Green

"Me and Earl and The Dying Girl" [2012] by Jesse Andrews

"Out of Darkness" [2015] by Ashley Hope Perez

"The Perks of Being A Wallflower" [1999] by Stephen Chbosky

"This Book Is Gay" [2014] by Juno Dawson


Books  On  The  History  of  The  Book

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A History of the Book in America in five volumes, Volume 1  "A History of The Book In America, Volume 1: The Colonial Book In The Atlantic World"
[2007] Edited by Hugh Amory & David D. Hall

Kindle Edition from Univ North Carolina Press [9/2009] for $16.19
Univ North Carolina Press 9x6 pb [4/2007] for $42.40
Univ North Carolina Press 9½x6¾ hardcover [5/2010] out of print/used
A History of the Book in America in five volumes, Volume 2  "A History of The Book In America, Volume 2: An Extensive Republic - Print, Culture, and Society In The New Nation, 1790-1840" [2010]
Edited by Robert A. Gross & Mary Kelley

Kindle Edition from Univ North Carolina Press [7/2010] for $29.99 {sic}
Univ North Carolina Press 9x6 pb [7/2014] for $43.72
Univ North Carolina Press 9½x6½ hardcover [7/2010] for $31.98
A History of the Book in America in five volumes, Volume 3  "A History of The Book In America, Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880" [2007]
Edited by Scott E. Casper, Jeffrey D. Groves, Stephen W. Nissenbaum & Michael Winship

Kindle Edition from Univ North Carolina Press [9/2009] for $16.19
Univ North Carolina Press 9½x6¼ pb [6/2014] for $50.00
Univ North Carolina Press 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2007] out of print/used
A History of the Book in America in five volumes, Volume 4  "A History of The Book In America, Volume 4: Print In Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading In The United States, 1880-1940" [2009]
Edited by Carl F. Kaestle & Janice A. Radway

Kindle Edition from Univ North Carolina Press [12/2015] for $9.99
Univ North Carolina Press 9¼x6 pb [6/2014] for $50.00
Univ North Carolina Press 9¾x6½ hardcover [2009] for $75.00
A History of the Book in America in five volumes, Volume 5  "A History of The Book In America, Volume 4: The Enduring Book: Print Culture In Post-war America" [2009] Edited by David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin & Michael Schudson
Kindle Edition from Univ North Carolina Press [12/2015] for $9.99
Univ North Carolina Press 9¼x6 pb [7/2014] for $36.00
Univ North Carolina Press 10x6½ hardcover [9/2009] out of print/used
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Melvil Dewey biography by George Grosvenor Dawe  "Melvil Dewey: Seer, Inspirer, Doer, 1851-1931" [1932]
Biografic Compilation by George Grosvenor Dawe

Dewey created & published the Dewey Decimal System [1876] which is widely used in libraries around the world; he founded the Library Bureau [1876] of Boston which sold library supplies; he also founded the Lake Placid Club in New York [1895-1980] and Florida [1926-1942], who published this biography
Literary Licensing, LLC 9x6 pb [6/2012] for $41.95
Lake Placid Club Limited Edition hardcover [1932] out of print/used
The Story of Writing book by Andrew Robinson  "The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms" [1995]
by Andrew Robinson

Thames & Hudson 2nd edition 10x7½ pb [5/2007] for $17.06
Thames & Hudson 10½x8 hardcover [12/95] out of print/80+ used
Irrepressible Reformer biography of Melvil Dewey by Wayne A. Wiegand  "Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey" [1996] by Wayne A. Wiegand
The first frank & comprehensive biography of Dewey's ingenius enterprise as a library innovator,
educational official, and business operator

American Library Assn Editions 9x6 pb [6/96] out of print/used
Companion to the History of the Book edited by Simon Eliot & Jonathan Rose  "A Companion To The History of The Book" [2007]
Edited by Simon Eliot & Jonathan Rose

Organized around four distinct ways of approaching the history of books: 1) the variety of methods used by book historians and allied specialists to investigate their subject, from the long established discipline of bibliography to newer I.T.-based approaches; 2) a broad chronological survey of forms and content, from the early Sumerian clay tablet through the emergence of electronic text; 3) the context of text culture as a whole; and 4) broader issues such as the nature of authorship and the future of the book
Kindle Edition from Wiley-Blackwell [6/2008] for $63.95 {sic}
Wiley-Blackwell 9¾x6¾ pb [3/2009] for $52.33 {sic}
Wiley-Blackwell 10x7¼ hardcover [6/2007] for $223.95 {sic}

Oxford Companion to the Book by Michael F. Suarez & H.R. Woudhuysen  "The Oxford Companion To The Book" [2010]
by Michael F. Suarez, SJ & H.R. Woudhuysen

Two-volume slipcover set; first volume is 51 essays, second is dictionary format, with 170 illustrations
Oxford Univ Press 12x9¼x5.2 inches {11½ pounds!} hardcover set [2/2010] for $339.06 {sic}
The Book Global History book by Michael F. Suarez & H.R. Woudhuysen  "The Book: A Global History" [2013]
by Michael F. Suarez, SJ & H.R. Woudhuysen

Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [10/2013] for $19.24
Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [2/2014] for $47.17
The Library / World History book by James W.P. Campbell & Will Pryce  "The Library: A World History" [2013]
by architectural historian James W.P. Campbell & photographer Will Pryce

Univ Chicago Press 12x9½ hardcover [10/2013] for $51.30
Paper History book by Nicholas A. Basbanes  "On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History" [2013]
by Nicholas A. Basbanes

Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [10/2013] for $13.99
Vintage 8x5¼ pb [7/2014] for $13.15
Knopf Notable Books 9¾x6½ hardcover [10/2013] out of print/used
History of the Book in 100 Books by Roderick Cave & Sara Ayad  "The History of The Book In 100 Books: The Complete Story, From Egypt To E-book" [2014]
by Roderick Cave & Sara Ayad

Firefly Books, Ltd. 10x8 pb [12/2017] for $12.95
Firefly Books, Ltd. 10x8 hardcover [9/2014] for $30.33
Firefly Books, Ltd. 10x8 hardcover [9/2014] out of print/used
"Die Geschichte des Buches In 100 Büchern: 5000 Jahre Wissbegier der Menschheit" German edition [2015]
Gerstenberg Verlag 10¼x8¼ hardcover [6/2015] out of print/used
"Une Histoire Mondiale du Livre: De La Tablette d'Argile au Livre Numérique (A World History of The Book - From The Clay Tablet To The E-book" French edition [2015]
Armand Colin 10¼x8¼ pb [10/2015] for $50.12
Chinese-language edition pb [10/2016] import/new-used
Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book edited by Leslie Howsam  
"The Cambridge Companion To The History of The Book" [2014]
Edited by Leslie Howsam

Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [12/2014] for $14.60
Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [12/2014] for $23.61
Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [1/2015] for $88.00 {sic}
The Book / Powerful Object book by Keith Houston  "The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of The Most Powerful Object of Our Time" [2016] by Keith Houston
Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton [8/2016] for $14.87
W.W. Norton & Co. 8½x6 hardcover [8/2016] for $17.82
Printer's Error book by J.P. & Rebecca Romney  "Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories From Book History" [2017]
by J.P. & Rebecca Romney

Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Publrs [3/2017] for $12.99
Harper 9x6 deckle-edge hardcover [3/2017] for $15.19
History of Children's Books in 100 Books by Roderick Cave & Sara Ayad  "A History of Children's Books In 100 Books" [2017] by Roderick Cave & Sara Ayad
this book is about children's books as artifacts, as well as the texts that they contain, and the industry & society that produced them
Firefly Books, Ltd. 11x8½ hardcover [10/2017] for $26.05
"Die Geschichte des Kinderbuches In 100 Büchern" German edition [2017]
Gerstenberg Verlag 11¼x9 hardcover [10/2017] for $32.74
Papyrus - Books in the Ancient World book by Irene Vallejo  "Papyrus: The Invention of Books In The Ancient World" [2019]
global bestseller by Irene Vallejo, Translated by Charlotte Whittle

the story of the book’s journey from oral tradition to scrolls to codices, and how that transition laid the very foundation of Western culture
Kindle Edition from Knopf [10/2022] for $13.99
Hodder & Stoughton UK 7¾x5 pb [10/2022] for $21.24
Hodder & Stoughton UK 9x6 pb [10/2022] for $30.43
Knopf 9½x6½ deckle-edge hardcover [10/2022] for $20.57
Hodder & Stoughton UK 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2022] for $35.55
"El Infinito en Un Junco (Infinity In A Reed): La Invención de Los Libros en El Mundo Antiguo
(The Invention of Books In The Ancient World)" original Spanish editions
Kindle Edition from Siruela Biblioteca de Ensayo [9/2019] for $9.99
Vintage Español 8½x5½ pb [8/2021] for $15.76
Debols!llo pb [8/2021] for $22.02
Debols!llo 7½x5 pb [6/2022] for $24.24
Siruela Biblioteca de Ensayo 9¾x6¾ hardcover [6/2023] for $46.05
graphic novel edition illustrated by Tyto Alba ('barn owl')
Editorial Debate Spanish-language 10½x8 hardcover graphic novel [1/2024] for $25.95   1/2024


Movies,  Stageplays,  Other  Media

"Making Books: Printing A Book, Old School" [Encyclopædia Britannica 1947]
watch short b&w film [9/2008 upload; 10:46] online at YouTube


Selected  Book  Series

Spirit of America Bookstore's "Classics Illustrated" Comic Books Pages

'Library of America' Book Series
search for 'Library of America' books {returns 3,000+ titles} at Amazon
'Library of America' website'Library of America' entry at Wikipedia

Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore's 'Philosophy In A Nutshell' Page
Icon/Totem "Introduction To Philosophy" Series
Dee/Strathern "Philosophy In 90 Minutes" Series
Anchor/Doubleday "The Big Idea" Series
Basic Books "Science Masters" Series
click here

Personal Finance for Dummies book by Eric Tyson  "Personal Finance For Dummies" [1994] by Eric Tyson
For Dummies 9¼x7.4 pb [4th edition 7/2003] for $15.39
Harper ABR audio CD [12/99] for $14.00
ABR audio [3/96] for $10.36
Investing for Dummies book by Eric Tyson  "Investing For Dummies" [1996] by Eric Tyson
For Dummies 9¼x7.4 pb [3rd edition 11/2002] for $15.39
Harper audio CD [12/99] for $14.00
Harper ABR audio [2/97] out of stock/used
Mutual Funds for Dummies book by Eric Tyson  "Mutual Funds For Dummies" [1998] by Eric Tyson
For Dummies 9¼x7½ pb [3rd edition 3/2001] for $15.39
Magic For Dummies book by David Pogue  "Magic For Dummies: A Reference For The Rest of Us!" [1998]
by David Pogue

For Dummies Books 9¼x7¼ pb [7/1998] for $21.99

more info on Spirit of America Bookstore's Wizards, Sorcerers, & Magicians Pages

Investing Online for Dummies book by Kathleen Sindell  "Investing Online For Dummies" [1998] by Kathleen Sindell
For Dummies 9¼x7½ pb [4th edition 7/2002] for $17.49
Philosophy For Dummies book by Martin Cohen  "Philosophy For Dummies" [1999] by Tom Morris, PhD
NOTE: The ". . . for Dummies" series is usually pretty good, but the "Philosophy For Dummies" book by American Tom Morris is a religion-based fake, and is therefore omitted here
"Philosophy For Dummies, U.K. Edition" [2012] by Martin Cohen
the later version by British philosophy journalist Martin Cohen is so much better, albeit it has minor problems of its own: i.e. he really, really dislikes Nazis
Kindle Edition from For Dummies Publng [7/2010] for $17.00
I.D.G. Books 9¼x7¼ pb [1/2012] for $15.99
England For Dummies book  
"England For Dummies" [2002] by Donald Olson
For Dummies 4th edition 8½x5½ pb [3/2008] out of print/used
Latin For Dummies book by Clifford A. Hull, Steven R. Perkins & Tracy Barr  "Latin For Dummies: A Reference For The Rest of Us!" [2002]
by Clifford A. Hull, Steven R. Perkins & Tracy Barr

Kindle Edition from For Dummies Books [6/2011] for $10.99
For Dummies Books 9¼x7½ pb [1/2002] for $15.65
For Dummies Books 9¼x7½ pb [1/2002] out of print/used
For Dummies Books 9¼x7½ pb [1/2002] out of print/used
For Dummies Books 9¼x7½ pb [1/2002] out of print/used
Stock Investing for Dummies book by Paul Mladjenovic  
"Stock Investing For Dummies" [2002] by Paul Mladjenovic
For Dummies 9¼x7½ pb [6/2002] for $15.39
France For Dummies book   "France For Dummies" [2003] by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince & Cheryl A. Pientka
For Dummies 4th edition 8½x5½ pb [5/2007] out of print/many used

"Paris For Dummies" [2011] by Joseph Alexiou
For Dummies 6th edition 8½x5½ pb [3/2011] for $17.99

Screenwriting For Dummies book by Laura Schellhardt  "Screenwriting for Dummies" [2003] by Laura Schellhardt
Wiley & Sons 9x7¼ pb [1/2003] for $13.59
Filmmaking For Dummies by Bryan Michael Stoller  "Filmmaking For Dummies" [2003]
by Bryan Michael Stoller, Foreword by Jerry Lewis [1926-2017]

Wiley & Sons 9¼x7½ pb [7/2003] for $12.99
Forensics For Dummies book by Douglas P. Lyle, MD  "Forensics For Dummies" [2004] by Douglas P. Lyle, MD
nominated for an Edgar Award
Kindle Edition from For Dummies [3/2011] for $10.99
For Dummies 9¼x7¼ pb [4/2004] for $13.59
Economics For Dummies book by Sean Flynn  "Economics For Dummies" [2005] by Sean Flynn
For Dummies pb [1/2005] for $14.95
Einstein for Dummies book by Carlos I. Calle  "Einstein For Dummies" [2005] by Carlos I. Calle
For Dummies 9x7¼ pb [6/2005] for $14.99

more info on Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore's Albert Einstein [1879-1955] Page

Facebook For Dummies book by Carolyn Abram  "Facebook For Dummies" [2008, rev 2018] by Carolyn Abram, with Amy Karasavas
Kindle Edition from Wiley/For Dummies [7th edition 2/2018] for $13.00
Wiley/For Dummies 7th Edition 9¼x7¼ pb [3/2018] for $17.32
Conspiracy Theories & Secret Societies For Dummies book by Christopher Hodapp & Alice Von Kannon  "Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies For Dummies" [2008]
by Christopher Hodapp & Alice Von Kannon

tagline: 'Explore the most famous mysteries and secretive groups of our time!'; topics include Skepticism, J.F.K., Jewish+Catholic+Islamic Conspiracies, Flying Saucers, New York City 9/11, Freemasonry & Templars, Bavarian Illuminati, College Fraternities, the Mafia, the Trilateral Commission & the Bilderberg Group, Holocaust Denial, and more
Kindle Edition from Wiley & Sons [2008 edition] for $13.00
Wiley & Sons 9x7¼ pb [3/2008] for $18.31

Existentialism For Dummies book by Christopher Panza & Gregory Gale  "Existentialism For Dummies" [2008]
by Christopher Panza, PhD & Gregory Gale, MA

Kindle Edition from Wiley/For Dummies [3/2009] for $11.99
Wiley/For Dummies 9x7¼ pb [8/2008] for $14.65
Facebook Marketing For Dummies book by Stephanie Diamond & John Haydon  "Facebook Marketing For Dummies" [orig 2009, rev 2018]
by Stephanie Diamond & John Haydon

Kindle Edition from For Dummies [4/2018] for $13.00
For Dummies 6th Edition 9¼x7¼ pb [5/2018] for $16.37
Beekeeping For Dummies book by Howland Blackiston  "Beekeeping For Dummies" [2008] by Howland Blackiston
Kindle Edition 2nd Edition from For Dummies [3/2009] for $11.49
For Dummies 2nd Edition 9x7¼ pb [3/2009] for $15.01
Wind Power For Dummies book by Ian Woofenden  "Wind Power For Dummies" [2009] by Ian Woofenden
Kindle Edition from For Dummies [9/2009] for $13.19
For Dummies 9¼x7¼ pb [9/2009] for $14.95
Alternative Energy For Dummies book by Rik DeGunther  "Alternative Energy For Dummies" [2009] by Rik DeGunther
"a sober analysis of the problems facing alternative energy, along with realistic solutions"
Kindle Edition from For Dummies [5/2009] for $9.99
For Dummies 9x7¼ pb [5/2009] for $14.65
Kindle DX For Dummies ebook by Greg Holden  "Kindle DX For Dummies" [2009] by Greg Holden
Kindle Edition from For Dummies [9/2009] for $4.51
String Theory For Dummies book by Mensa member Andrew Zimmerman Jones  "String Theory For Dummies" [2009] by Andrew Zimmerman Jones
For Dummies 9¼x7¼ pb [11/2009] for $13.59
Europe For Dummies book  "Europe For Dummies" [2011]
Wiley/For Dummies 6th edition 8½x5½ pb [1/2011] for $23.26
Kindle Fire For Dummies in Kindle format by Nancy C. Muir  "Kindle Fire For Dummies" [2011] by Nancy C. Muir
Kindle Edition from For Dummies [12/2011] for $12.08
For Dummies 9x7½ pb [12/2011] for $12.72
3D Printing For Dummies book by Kalani Kirk Hausman & Richard Horne  "3D Printing For Dummies" [2014]
by Kalani Kirk Hausman & Richard Horne

Kindle Edition from Wiley/For Dummies [1/2014] for $16.49
Wiley/For Dummies 9¼x7½ pb [1/2014] for $20.72
Baseball For Dummies book by Joe Morgan & Richard Lally  "Baseball For Dummies" [2014] by Joe Morgan & Richard Lally
Kindle Edition from For Dummies [2/2014] for $11.99
For Dummies 4th edition 9¼x7½ pb [2/2014] for $17.20
Digital Filmmaking For Kids book by Nick Willoughby  "Digital Filmmaking For Kids: 23 Fun Video Projects" [ages 7-16; 2015]
by Nick Willoughby - filmmaker, teacher, and film geek

Kindle Edition from For Dummies [4/2015] for $18.00
For Dummies 9x7½ pb [5/2015] for $22.49
LinkedIn For Dummies book by Joel Elad  "LinkedIn For Dummies" [2018] by Joel Elad
Kindle Edition from Wiley/For Dummies [5th edition 3/2018] for $13.00
Wiley/For Dummies 5th edition 9x7¼ pb [4/2018] for $15.31
Alexa For Dummies book by Paul McFedries  "Alexa For Dummies" [2018] by Paul McFedries
Kindle Edition from For Dummies [11/2018] for $13.00
For Dummies 9x7¼ pb [11/2018] for $21.24


Lists  of  Wonderful  Books

Amazon's '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime' Pages

TIME Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels Page

The Telegraph of U.K.'s List of Best 100 Novels Page

The B.B.C.'s Top 100 Books List Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's Great Books & Great Authors Page

PBS's 'The Great American Read' Project of 2018

Spirit of America Bookstore's The Harvard Classics [1909] Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's Top 100+ Children's Books Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's Authors Pages

American Literature of The XIXth Century
American Literature of The XXth Century

A List of 50 Books - to help you understand everything in the Universe

150 Essential Mystery Novels Page at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore

100 Classic Books Made Into Films at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

TIME Magazine's 100+ Top Movies Pages at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

Nobel Prizes in Literature [est. 1901] Page
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10 Books That Screwed Up The World book by Benjamin Wiker  "10 Books That Screwed Up The World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help" [2008] by Benjamin Wiker, PhD
The premise is atrocious, the arguments are ludicrous; the fifteen books that the author doesn't agree with are: "The Prince" [1532] by Niccolò Machiavelli [1469-1527]; "Discourse On Method" [1637] by René Descartes [1596-1650]; "Leviathan" [1651] by Thomas Hobbes [1588-1679]; "Discourse On The Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men" [1755] by Jean-Jacques Rousseau [1712-78]; "The Manifesto of The Communist Party" [1848] by Karl Marx [1818-83] and Friedrich Engels [1820-95]; "Utilitarianism" [1861-63] by John Stuart Mill [1806-73]; "The Descent of Man, and Selection In Relation To Sex" [1871] by Charles Darwin [1809-82]; "Beyond Good and Evil" [1886] by Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900]; "The State and Revolution" [1917] by Vladimir Lenin [1870-1924]; "The Pivot of Civil-ization" [1922] by Margaret Higgins Sanger [1879-1966]; "Mein Kampf" [1925-26] by Adolf Hitler [1889-1945]; "The Future of An Illusion" [1927] by Sigmund Freud [1856-1939]; "Coming of Age In Samoa" [1928] by Margaret Mead [1901-78]; "Sexual Behavior In The Human Male" [1948] by Kinsey, Pomeroy & Martin; and "The Feminine Mystique" [1963] by Betty Friedan [1921-2006]
Kindle Edition from Regnery Publng [5/2008] for $9.99
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The Bright Book of Life, Novels to Read and Reread book by Harold Bloom   "The Bright Book of Life: Novels To Read and Reread" [2020] by literary critic Harold Bloom [1930-2019]  11/2020
Kindle Edition from Knopf [11/2020] for $15.99
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'this ambitious final book of Bloom's career is elegant and insightful' and includes these works: "Emma" [1815], "Persuasion" [1817], and "Pride and Prejudice"
[1813] by Jane Austen; "The Loser (Der Untergeher)" [Germany 1983] by Thomas Bernhard; "The Death of The Heart" [1938] by Elizabeth Bowen; "Wuthering Heights" [1847] by Emily Brontë; "The Master and Margarita" [Russia 1967] by Mikhail Bulgakov; "Nostromo" [1904] and "The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale"
[1907] and "Under Western Eyes" [1911] by Joseph Conrad; The Vautrin Saga: "Old Goriot" [1835], "Lost Illusions" [1837-43], and "The Splendor and Misery of The Courtesans" [1838-47] by Honoré de Balzac; "Don Quixote" [Spain 1605 + 1615] by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; "Book of Numbers" [2015] by Joshua Cohen; "Bleak House" [1852-53] and "Our Mutual Friend" [1864-65] by Charles Dickens; "The Brothers Karamazov" [Russia 1879-80] by Fyodor Dostoevsky; "Invisible Man" by [1952] Ralph Ellison; "Absalom, Absalom!" [1936] by William Faulkner; "Tom Jones" [1749] by Henry Fielding; "Madame Bovary: Provincial
Manners" [France 1856] by Gustave Flaubert; "The Return of The Native" [1878] by Thomas Hardy; "Les Misérables" [France 1862] by Victor Hugo; "The Ambassadors" [1903] and "The Princess Casa-massima" [1885-86] by Henry James; "Ulysses" [1922] by James Joyce; "The Rainbow" [1915] and sequel "Women In Love" [1920] by D.H. Lawrence; "The Dis-possessed" [1974] and "The Left Hand of Darkness" [1969] by Ursula K. Le Guin; "The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg)" [Germany 1924] by Thomas Mann; "I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)" [Italy 1827] by Alessandro Manzoni; "Blood Meridian: or, The Evening Redness In The West" [] by Cormac McCarthy; "Moby-Dick" [1851] by Herman Melville; "In Search of Lost Time (À La Recherche du Temps Perdu)" [7 volumes 1913-27] by Marcel Proust; "The Captain’s Daughter" [Russia 1836] by Alexander Pushkin; "Clarissa: or, The History of A Young Lady" [1748] by Samuel Richardson; "The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage (Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine Englische Wallfahrt)" [Germany 1995, English 1998] by W.G. Sebald; "The Charterhouse of Parma" [1839] and "The Red and the Black (Le Rouge et Le Noir: Chronique du XIXe Siècle)" [1830] by Stendhal; "Vanity Fair: Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society" [1847-48] by William Makepeace Thackeray; "Anna Karenina" [1873-78] and "The Cossacks" [1863] and "Hadji Murat" [1912-17] and "War and Peace" [1869] by Leo Tolstoy; "A Sportsman’s Notebook" [stories 1852] and "First Love" [1860] by Ivan Turgenev; "The Reef" [1912] by Edith Wharton; and "To The Lighthouse" [1927] by Virginia Woolf


Selected Quotes About Books

“In the case of good books, the point is not how many you can get thru, but rather how many can get thru to you.”
Dr. Mortimer J. Adler [1902-2001]

“Books are the mirror in which we see ourselves.”
New Mexico author Rudolfo Anaya

“Temples are to be dedicated to the gods, and books to good men.”
— Aristides the Just [530-468 BCE]

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
— Sir Francis Bacon [1561-1626]

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
sci-fi author & poet Ray Bradbury [1920-2012]

“Real poverty is lack of books.”
— {Sidonie Gabrielle} Colette [1873-1954]

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends, they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
Charles W. Eliot [1834-1926]

“It's not hoarding if it's books.”
PBS's 'The Great American Read' Project of 2018

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”
Rudyard Kipling [1865-1936]

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets one. It is like falling in love.”
— Christopher Morley [1890-1957]

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.”
— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis [1929-94]

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
— William Styron [1925-2006]

“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”
— Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai

“You know that you're a book geek when you still get upset thinking about the Library of Alexandria.”
— internet meme (with other variations)



Important  and  Wonderful  Books

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"Alice In Wonderland" Novels, Stageplays & Movies Page

"All The President's Men" 1974 Book & 1976 Movie Page

"Animal Farm" Novel [1945] & Movies Page

"Anne of Green Gables" Novels Page

"Atlas Shrugged" [1957 novel] by Ayn Rand

"Ben-Hur" Novel [1880] & Movies Page

'The Boxcar Children' Novels & Movies Page

The Condor Trilogy [1957-61] of China Page

'Nancy Drew' Mystery Novel Series Page

"Dune" Novels & Movies Page

'Fu Manchu' Mystery Novel Series Page

"Game of Thrones" Novels & TV Page

'Gidget' Novels & Movies Page

'The Godfather Saga' Novels & Movies Page

"Gone With The Wind" 1936 Novel & 1939 Movie Page

"The Grapes of Wrath" 1939 Novel & 1940 Movie Page

"The Great Gatsby" Novel [1925] & Movies Page

'The Hardy Boys' Mystery Novel Series Page

'Harry Potter' Novels & Movies Page

"The Hobbit" Novel [1937] & Movies

'Hopalong Cassidy' Novels & Movies Page

"Ivanhoe" Novel [1820] & Movies Page

Kipling's "The Jungle Books" Stories & Movies Page

"The Last of The Mohicans" Novels [1823-27] & Movies

"The Last Tycoon" Novel [1941/1993] & Movies Page

"The Little House On The Prairie" Novels & TV

"The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince)" Novel [1943] & Movies Page

'Lord of The Rings' Novels & Movies Page

"The Maltese Falcon" Novel [1930] & Movies Page

"The Narnia Chronicles" Novels [1950-56] by C.S. Lewis [1898-1963]

"Nineteen Eighty-Four" Novel [1949] & Movies Page

"The Nutcracker" Story [1816] & Ballet & Movies Page

'Peter Pan' Novels, Stageplays & Movies Page

"The Railway Children" Novel [1906] & Movies Page

'Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer' Books & Movies Page

'Tarzan' Movies & Fiction Pages

"Tender Is The Night" Novel [1934] & Movies Page

'The Thin Man' Novels & Movies Page

'Thomas the Tank Engine' Books & TV Pages

"To Kill A Mockingbird" 1960 Novel & 1962 Movie Page

'Tom Swift' Novels Series Page

"Treasure Island" [1883] Novels & Movies Page

"The War of The Worlds" Novel [1898] & Movies Page

'Winnie The Pooh' Books & Movies Page

'The Wizard of Oz' Books & 1939 Movie Page


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