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Good Minds Suggest—Books that Influenced Congressman John Lewis

Books that Influenced Me: An icon of the civil rights movement, the author of the graphic memoir March shares a personal book list.

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That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It's never the same thing twice.

Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes    

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The Best of Haruki Murakami’s Advice Column

"Listen to Ray Charles and spend your time wiping your tears."

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The only advice … that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

Virginia Woolf

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10 excellent books you might have missed in 2014

Which 2014 books were so good that a critic would gladly read them again on his own time? Danny Heitman shares his list.

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Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with - to live a more interesting reality than one's daily life.

Steven Rigolosi

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...but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry 

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I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.

Roxane Gay, in “The Books That Made Me Who I Am” (via irisblasi)

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You are your best thing.

Toni Morrison, Beloved

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I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals.

Seamus Heaney

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Staff Pick: The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara "It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind. Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success. But his discovery has come at a terrible cost, not only for the islanders, but for Perina himself. Disquieting yet thrilling, The People in the Trees is an anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide. It marks the debut of a remarkable new voice in American fiction." “Exhaustingly inventive and almost defiant in its refusal to offer redemption or solace. . . . As for Yanagihara, she is a writer to marvel at.” —The New York Times Book Review

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Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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Books to Read Before They Hit the Screen in 2015

My mind has shifted toward some of the books headed for the big (and small!) screen next year.

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Sometimes I wonder why words can’t actually make us bleed.

Swati Avasthi, Split

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Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared.

Anita Brookner, A Family Romance

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Ten Debuts to Look for in 2015

While 2014 was definitely an amazing year for debut novels, it's hard to deny that 2015 is shaping up to be just as strong.