Remarkable reads: 34 writers and their adventures in reading

Title: Remarkable reads: 34 writers and their adventures in reading

Published: New York: Norton, 2004

Description: 261 p. ; 21 cm.

Note(s): Edited by J. Peder Zane. Essays which first appeared in the Raleigh News & observer

Contents:

• Introduction: adventures in reading--J. Peder Zane
• The most memorable book I read--Bebe Moore Campbell
• The loneliest book I read--Jonathan Lethem
• The most enchanting book I read--Betty Adock
• The most important book I read--Denise Gess
• The most daunting book I read--Lee K. Abbott
• The most resonant book I read--Scott Weidensaul
• The most dangerous book I read--Frederick Busch
• The wisest book I read--Robert Morgan
• The classiest book I read--Eric Wright
• The most eloquent book I read--Anthony Walton
• The maddest book I read--Joan Barfoot
• The most double-d-daring book I read--Marianne Gingher
• The most hippest book I read--J. Peder Zane
• The most familiar book I read--Haven Kimmel
• The most incomprehensible book I read--H.W. Brands
• The most devastating book I read--Ben Marcus
• The most apocalyptic book I read--Lydia Millet
• The saddest book I read--Nasdijj
• The most fragile book I read--Bret Lott
• The most beautiful book I read--Jill McCorkle
• The most tempting book I read--Charles Frazier
• The most fearless book I read--Elizabeth Hay
• The most intuitive book I read--Aimee Bender
• The most Scottish book I read--Margot Livesey
• The most technically elegant book I read--Clyde Edgerton
• The queerest book I read--Peter Cameron
• The most exotic book I read--Fred Chappell
• The most smokin’ book I read--Sven Birkerts
• The most seductive books I read--Peggy Payne
• The most elegant book I read--Howard Bahr
• The most surprising book I read--Peter Gay
• The most disappointing book I read--Marvin Hunt
• The most unpleasant book I read--Doris Betts
• The most luminous book I read--Lee Smith

Subject(s):

• Authors, American -- 20th century -- Books and reading
• Authors -- 20th century -- Books and reading
• Books and reading

Review(s):

• Kingsbury, Pam. "Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading." Library Journal 129.1 (Jan 2004): 111
• "Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading." Publishers Weekly 251.1 (Jan 5, 2004): 48

Read: July 24, 2004