{"product_id":"how-reading-changed-my-life-isbn-9780345422781","title":"How Reading Changed My Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Anna Quindlen presents a “swift and compelling paean to the joys of books” (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Like the columns she used to write for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e[\u003ci\u003eHow Reading Changed My Life\u003c\/i\u003e] is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary, and a pleasure to read.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. . . . Yet of all the many things in which we recognize universal comfort—God, sex, food, family, friends—reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung, at least publicly, although it was really all I thought of, or felt, when I was eating up book after book, running away from home while sitting in a chair, traveling around the world and yet never leaving the room. . . . I read because I loved it more than any activity on earth.”—from \u003ci\u003eHow Reading Changed My Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Quindlen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of many bestselling books, including the #1\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling novel \u003ci\u003eRise and Shine, \u003c\/i\u003ethe #1 bestselling memoir \u003ci\u003eLots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e A Short Guide to a Happy Life. \u003c\/i\u003eHer other novels include \u003ci\u003eBlessings, One True Thing, \u003c\/i\u003ethe Oprah Book Club Selection \u003ci\u003eBlack and Blue, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Still Life with Bread Crumbs.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Reading Lists from Anna Quindlen's \u003ci\u003eHow Reading Changed My Life\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Big Thick Wonderful Books that Could Take You a Whole Summer to Read (But Aren't Beach Books)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGone With the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e by Margaret Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e by William Makepeace Thackeray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEast of Eden\u003c\/i\u003e by John Steinbeck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Forstyte Saga\u003c\/i\u003e by John Galsworthy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuddenbrooks\u003c\/i\u003e by Thomas Mann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCan You Forgive Her?\u003c\/i\u003e by Anthony Trollope\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSophie's Choice\u003c\/i\u003e by William Styron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHenry and Clara\u003c\/i\u003e by Thomas Mallon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e by Don DeLillo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLonesome Dove\u003c\/i\u003e by Larry McMurtry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Non Fiction Books That Help Us Understand the World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e by Gibbons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best and the Brightest\u003c\/i\u003e by David Halberstam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLenin's Tomb\u003c\/i\u003e by David Remnick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLincoln\u003c\/i\u003e by David Herbert Douglas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e by Rachel Carson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Cold Blood\u003c\/i\u003e by Truman Capote\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow We Die\u003c\/i\u003e by Sherwin Nuland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unredeemed Captive\u003c\/i\u003e by John Demos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex\u003c\/i\u003e by Simone de Beauvoir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Power Broker\u003c\/i\u003e by Robert Caro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Books that will Help a Teenager Feel More Human\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e by J.D. 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