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- May 2024
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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Jane Austen’s own great book, Emma(1815), contains a reference to the “handsome, clever, and rich”English protagonist Emma Woodhouse drawing up “a great manylists . . . of books that she meant to read . . . well-chosen and very neatlyarranged”
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- Jul 2023
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thegreatestbooks.org thegreatestbooks.org
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- May 2023
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jillianhess.substack.com jillianhess.substack.com
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Let us take down one of those old notebooks which we have all, at one time or another, had a passion for beginning. Most of the pages are blank, it is true; but at the beginning we shall find a certain number very beautifully covered with a strikingly legible hand-writing. Here we have written down the names of great writers in their order of merit; here we have copied out fine passages from the classics; here are lists of books to be read; and here, most interesting of all, lists of books that have actually been read, as the reader testifies with some youthful vanity by a dash of red ink. —“Hours in a Library”
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- Apr 2023
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www.dalekeiger.net www.dalekeiger.net
- Mar 2023
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www.greaterbooks.com www.greaterbooks.com
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http://www.greaterbooks.com/verity.html
This is a spectacular looking list of verity works over the last century. So many I've already read or which are already on my ever-growing list.
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www.greaterbooks.com www.greaterbooks.com
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In 1886, during a lecture on the "pleasure of reading," the British scientist, politician, and man of letters John Lubbock spoke of his wish for "a list of a hundred good books"; in the absence of such, he offered his own selection.
Lubbock's List: http://www.greaterbooks.com/lubbock.html
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www.greaterbooks.com www.greaterbooks.com
- Dec 2022
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www.modernlibrary.com www.modernlibrary.com
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https://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction/
What a solid looking list of non-fiction books.
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- May 2021