The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading ListGreat reads for busy people. This is a guide to help busy people find great reads in fiction and nonfiction. Filled with recommendations of popular, entertaining reading, this book covers mystery and suspense, romance, women’s fiction and chick lit, Westerns, science fiction, such nonfiction topics as animals, art, biography, memoirs, business, true crime, and more. Plus, each entry includes a summary of the book, its significance, and a critique/observation/comment. |
Contents
Books That Fly off the Shelves | |
Books Worthy of Oprah | |
Get a Clue Chapter 4 | |
Edge of Your Seat Entertainment | |
Reading to Your Hearts Desire | |
A Womans Story Is Never Done | |
Food for the Soul | |
The Discovery Genre | |
But Enough About | |
Four Score and Lots of Years | |
Your Literary Passport to the World | |
Take My Joke Please | |
Blood Guts and a Darned Good Story | |
Appendix A Glossary | |
GiddyUp and Read | |
Out of This World Reading | |
Life After The Lord of the Rings Chapter 11 Horror Novels It Was a Dark and Stormy Night | |
Have a Little Faith in Your Books | |
Appendix B Websites for Book Lovers | |
Author Index | |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List: The Essential ... John Charles,Shelley Mosley No preview available - 2007 |
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