For filmmaker Mira Nair, one book - From Citizen to Refugee by Mahood Mamdani - moved her to meet its author, now her husband. David Sedaris's shelf is filled with the short stories of Tobias Wolff and Raymond Carver. Growing up, Stephanie Meyer of Twilight series fame identified with Jane Eyre's stubborn streak and Charlotte Bronte's classic occupies the mean position on her shelf. Actor James Franco's father gave him a copy of As I Lay Dying when he was fourteen and it became his literary obsession. Writer, cartoonist and jazz musician Ishmael Reed considers Black Boy by Richard Wright his survival manual. Chef and writer Gabrielle Hamilton selected Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham as the pivotal book as one of the most angst-filled periods of her life.
I thought it would be fun and informative to fill an "ideal bookshelf" that pays homage to Melvil (Dewey). Looking back on 2012, this shortlist - one book from each of the Dewey classifications - was chosen from my own reading, recommendations from colleagues and supported by critical acclaim. So, if you check out My Ideal Bookshelf, you'll have only 10 more to go - an easy accomplishment for the remainder of the year.
028.9M99041 2012 - My Ideal Bookshelf edited by Thessaly LaForce
155.232C1355q 2012 - Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
305.42R731e 2012 - The End of Men: and the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin
423.1D756d 2012 - The Dictionary of Worthless Words: 3000 Words to Stop Using Now by Dave Dowling
577.30973R935a 2012 - American Canopy: Trees, Forests and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow.
641.22As428h 2012 How to Love Wine: a Memoir and Manifesto by Eric Asimov
709P148g 2012 - Glittering Images: a Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia
813.6 M1789b02012 - Buddy: How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man by Brian McGory
973.92092 - The President's Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy92Sp84c 2012 - Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin
Happy reading in 2013!
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