Read On...Life Stories: Reading Lists For Every Taste (read On Series) [Paperback]

Scores of appeal-based reading lists cover topics you'll never find in the library catalogfrom extraordinary women and overcoming adversity to sports talk, spiritual journeys, and luminous prose.

With the genre of memoirs filled with so many titles and from such a variety of authors, it is hard to grasp what's available and what's worth reading. For all those who love delving into the lives of others, thisRead On&volume offers help.

Read On&Life Stories: Reading Lists for Every Tasteoffers brief descriptions of nearly 450 published memoirs, from classics likeThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, to recent bestsellers like John Grogan'sMarley and Meand Julie Andrews'Home. Titles are grouped together by their appeal to readers, and there is something for everyone: humorous memoirs, thrilling adventure stories, chatty celebrity reminiscences, cathartic dramas of family dysfunction, fascinating career retrospectives, and insightful stories of family and personal lives in many eras and places.

Like others in the series, this is a readers'-advisory title that could be handed off to patrons to browse on their ownif you can get it away from the librarian. With both a detailed table of contents and an excellent index, this is a must-have tool for public libraries. Booklist

Useful as a reference for readers' advisors in public and school libraries, this work offers brief descriptions of about 450 published memoirs, from classic to recent bestsellers. Titles are grouped together by their emphasis on character, story, setting, language, and mood, and further divided into sections on topics such as unusual childhoods, coming of age, life-altering experiences, life in rural America, various occupations, travel, spiritual journeys, family relationships,lS>