Böcker av Nancy Pearl

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With emphasis on award-winning fiction, this companion guide to Now Read This: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 1978-1998, features more than 500 novels published between 1990 and 2001.

Whether you're searching for the perfect read for yourself or for a friend, More Book Lust offer eclectic recommendations unlike those in any other reading guide available. In this followup to the bestselling Book Lust, popular librarian, Nancy Pearl, offers a fresh collection of 1,000 reading recommendations in more than 120 thematic, intelligent and wholly entertaining reading lists. For the friend wanting to leave her job: "e;Living Your Dream"e; offers good armchair dreaming books about people who have left stodgy jobs to do what they love. Are you a budding chef? "e;Fiction For Foodies"e; includes books that sneak in a recipe or two along with a tantalizing plot. For the James Bond wannabe: "e;Crime is a Globetrotter"e; features crime novels set in various locations around the world such as Tibet, Sweden, and Sicily. In the book's introduction, Pearl jokes, ';If we were at a twelve-step meeting together, I would have to stand up and say, ';Hi, I'm Nancy P., and I'm a readaholic.' Booklist magazine plays off this obsession while echoing a sentiment of Nancy Pearl's fans everywhere: ';A self-confessed ';readaholic,' Pearl lets us benefit from her addiction. May she never seek recovery.' Indeed.

The third in the Now Read This series, Pearl & Cords's guide briefly describes and organizes approximately 500 of the most popular and current contemporary, mainstream fiction titles according to their primary appeal features-character, setting, language, and story.