THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people, I’ve always enjoyed commenting on strangers’ outfits. Unlike a lot of people, I now had a new… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
It is illegal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. If there is a fire, please yell something else instead, like “Flames!”… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think because of these big issues of life and death that maybe sex feels like a crass question. But for Christ… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
This is a book called Women in the Shade of Islam. It's published by the government of Saudi Arabia. I picked it… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book! — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Catch-22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon...remarkable... This is a book that I could wish everyone to read. It… — Philip Toynbee Copy Share Image
REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story,… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human.… — KL Going Copy Share Image
Here is Max De Pree at his best, and that is very good indeed. In Leading Without Power, De Pree shows us… — Richard J. Mouw Copy Share Image
Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
