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Books for People Who Think They Do Not Like Reading
Books for People Who Think They Do Not Like Reading
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: I'm Glad My Mom Died and Born a Crime
If films, podcasts and a good conversation usually win your attention, start with the kind of experience you already enjoy. These books offer an immediate voice, a compelling question or pictures...
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Food Writing Worth Reading Even When You Never Cook the Recipes
Food Writing Worth Reading Even When You Never Cook the Recipes
by book_guy  • 
In common: Crying in H Mart
A recipe tells you what goes into a dish. A good piece of food writing can tell you who taught someone to make it, who did the work, and why it mattered that they ate it together. These essays...
Books
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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Born a Crime
Treat this as a set of doors into different kinds of reading. Familiar novels sit beside translated fiction, memoir, poetry, science and stories told in pictures, chosen for a memorable voice, an...
Books
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Celebrities Whose Autobiographies Reveal Their Working Lives
Celebrities Whose Autobiographies Reveal Their Working Lives
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
A good show-business memoir lets you watch someone make a choice you would never see from the audience. These books go inside a stand-up act, a writers’ room, a film set, or a songwriting session...
Celebrities
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Actors and Broadcasters With Unmistakable Voices
Actors and Broadcasters With Unmistakable Voices
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
Some voices tell you who is speaking before you see a face. These actors, narrators, and broadcasters have a sound worth listening for and a performance that shows what they do with it. Start with...
Celebrities
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Musical Cast Albums with Stories You Can Follow by Listening
Musical Cast Albums with Stories You Can Follow by Listening
by record_digger  • 
On a similar theme
A good cast recording can tell you who just walked into the room or why a line matters the second time you hear it. These albums use narration, recurring songs, or scenes between numbers to keep...
Music
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Books That Make a Long Train Journey Fly By
Books That Make a Long Train Journey Fly By
by book_guy  • 
In common: Born a Crime
A good train book establishes its voice quickly and gives you a reason to return after a platform change or an announcement. These choices range from mysteries and speculative adventures to...
Books
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Funny Books for Readers Who Love Comic Timing
Funny Books for Readers Who Love Comic Timing
by book_guy  • 
In common: Born a Crime
A funny premise helps, but the timing of a sentence is usually what makes a book worth returning to. These choices cover dry observation, social embarrassment, verbal surprises and absurd...
Books
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Teen Books About School Pressure That Get the Feeling Right
Teen Books About School Pressure That Get the Feeling Right
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
A grade, an exam, or a scholarship can feel like a decision about the rest of your life. These prose novels, verse novels, a graphic novel, and a manga put that feeling in a particular place, from...
Books
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Teen Sports Novels About Life Beyond the Game
Teen Sports Novels About Life Beyond the Game
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
A scholarship can change what a family can afford. A team can give someone a place to belong or ask for more than they’re ready to give. These teen novels take the sport seriously and follow what...
Books
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Poetry Collections Where the Sequence Tells Its Own Story
Poetry Collections Where the Sequence Tells Its Own Story
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
Some poetry books change when you read them from cover to cover. A form returns with new words, a voice enters after a stretch of silence, or a later poem sends you back to the opening. Each of...
Books
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Music Books That Make Listening More Interesting
Music Books That Make Listening More Interesting
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
Put a record on while you read. These books give you something to follow on a second pass, such as a drummer who sits behind the beat, a voice that keeps going after the song seems to end, or a...
Books
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Novels Where the Narrator's Voice Is the Main Attraction
Novels Where the Narrator's Voice Is the Main Attraction
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
Some novels earn another page because of the person apparently speaking it. These choices favour distinctive rhythms, obsessions, evasions and ways of addressing a listener, from intimate...
Books
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Political Figures Whose Memoirs Reward a Critical Reading
Political Figures Whose Memoirs Reward a Critical Reading
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
Political memoirs can reveal how decisions felt from inside an institution, how a leader wants a career remembered and which experiences they consider worth preserving. These 20 political figures...
Politics
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Unreliable Narrators Worth Trusting With Your Time
Unreliable Narrators Worth Trusting With Your Time
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
A persuasive voice can give you reasons to keep listening and reasons to keep checking. These books make that double attention rewarding through selective memory, self-defence, social ambition and...
Books
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Memoirs About Parenthood That Leave the Mess In
Memoirs About Parenthood That Leave the Mess In
by book_guy  • 
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A newborn needs feeding while a parent is still figuring out how to get through the night. A school meeting ends with more questions than answers. These memoirs stay close to the work of raising...
Books
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Short Audiobooks for a Complete Story on One Long Journey
Short Audiobooks for a Complete Story on One Long Journey
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
Pick a recording that fits the time you’ll actually have. Every audiobook here is unabridged, tells a complete story, and runs for under six hours at normal speed. Each recommendation names the...
Books
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Fashion Memoirs and Biographies Worth Reading
Fashion Memoirs and Biographies Worth Reading
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
Life stories from the fashion world for readers who love biography more than glossy picture books. Every pick is a specific memoir or biography of a designer, editor, model or photographer, and...
Fashion
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History Told Through Ordinary People’s Lives
History Told Through Ordinary People’s Lives
by book_guy  • 
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A midwife’s diary, a miller’s testimony, and a family’s embroidered sack each preserve a different part of the past. These books start with people whose lives rarely made it into official...
Books
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Oral Historians Who Preserved Overlooked Voices
Oral Historians Who Preserved Overlooked Voices
by curious_compiler  • 
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Official records mostly capture the powerful. Oral historians set out to record everyone else: street sellers, farm labourers, formerly enslaved people, soldiers in the ranks, women caught up in...
People
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