Remarkable reads
Subtitle: 34 writers and their adventures in reading
By: edited by J. Peder Zane.
Contributors: Zane, J. Peder.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Authors, American -- 20th century -- Books and reading.; Authors -- 20th century -- Books and reading.; Books and reading.
Notes: Essays which first appeared in the Raleigh News & observer.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : adventures in reading / by J. Peder Zane; title: The most memorable book I read / Bebe Moore Campbell; title: The loneliest book I read / Jonathan Lethem; title: The most enchanting book I read / Betty Adock; title: The most important book I read / Denise Gess; title: The most daunting book I read / Lee K. Abbott; title: The most resonant book I read / Scott Weidensaul; title: The most dangerous book I read / Frederick Busch; title: The wisest book I read / Robert Morgan; title: The classiest book I read / Eric Wright; title: The most eloquent book I read  / Anthony Walton; title: The maddest book I read / Joan Barfoot; title: The most double-d-daring book I read / Marianne Gingher; title: The most hippest book I read / J. Peder Zane; title: The most familiar book I read / Haven Kimmel; title: The most incomprehensible book I read / H.W. Brands; title: The most devastating book I read / Ben Marcus; title: The most apocalyptic book I read / Lydia Millet; title: The saddest book I read / Nasdijj; title: The most fragile book I read / Bret Lott; title: The most beautiful book I read / Jill McCorkle; title: The most tempting book I read / Charles Frazier; title: The most fearless book I read / Elizabeth Hay; title: The most intuitive book I read / Aimee Bender; title: The most Scottish book I read / Margot Livesey; title: The most technically elegant book I read / Clyde Edgerton; title: The queerest book I read / Peter Cameron; title: The most exotic book I read / Fred Chappell; title: The most smokin' book I read / Sven Birkerts; title: The most seductive books I read / Peggy Payne; title: The most elegant book I read / Howard Bahr; title: The most surprising book I read / Peter Gay; title: The most disappointing book I read / Marvin Hunt; title: The most unpleasant book I read / Doris Betts; title: The most luminous book I read / Lee Smith.