• ATHILL, Diana: Stet (B+) -- an editor's life
• BAYARD, Pierre: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (A)
• BLOM, Philipp: To Have and to Hold (B) -- on collecting
• BOYLE, James: Shamans, Software, and Spleens (A-) -- copyright
• BROTTMAN, Mikita: The Solitary Vice (C) -- Against Reading
• CARLEY, James P.: The Books of King Henry VIII and his Wives (-)
• EPSTEIN, Jason: Book Business (B+)
• ERDAL, Jennie: Ghosting (A-) -- working at Quartert Books
• ESTERMANN, Alfred: Schopenhauers Kampf um sein Werk (B+) -- Schopenhauer and his publishers
• GILLIERON, Rebecca: The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs (-) (with Catheryn Kilgarriff)
• HITCHINGS, Henry: Dr.Johnson's Dictionary (US title: Defining the World) (B+)
• JACKSON, Kevin: Invisible Forms (B+) - literary curiosities
• KELLY, Stuart: The Book of Lost Books (B-) - An Incomplete History of all the Great Books You'll Never Read
• KORDA, Michael:
  • Another Life (B+) -- the publishing industry
  • Making the List (C) -- the bestseller lists
• LARSON, Charles R. The Ordeal of the African Writer (B)
• MANGUEL, Alberto:
  • The Library at Night (B)
  • A Reading Diary (B)
• MARCUS, James: Amazonia (A-) -- Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut
• MYERS, B.R.: A Reader's Manifesto (B)
• POOL, Gail: Faint Praise (A-) -- The Plight of Book Reviewing in America
• SAFOUAN, Moustapha: Why are the Arabs not Free ? (B) - The Politics of Writing
• SCHIFFRIN, André: The Business of Books (B+)
• SECORD, James A.: Victorian Sensation (A-) -- study of a literary sensation
• SHEA, Ammon: Reading the OED (B+) -- One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
• SPUFFORD, Francis: The Child That Books Built (B) -- reading memoir
• SPURLING, Hilary: The Girl from the Fiction Department (B) -- A Portrait of Sonia Orwell
• STANDAERT, Michael: Skipping Towards Armageddon (B) -- The Politics and Propaganda of the Left Behind Novels and the LaHaye Empire
• STEINER, George: My Unwritten Books (A-)
• TABAN Lo Liyong: Another Last Word (B) -- East African literature and politics
• UGRESIC, Dubravka: Thank You for Not Reading (B+) -- Essays in Literary Trivia
• VENUTI, Lawrence: The Scandals of Translation (B+)
• WACHTEL, Andrew Baruch: Remaining Relevant after Communism (B+) -- The Role of the Writer in Eastern Europe
• WATERS, Lindsay: Enemies of Promise (B+) -- Publishing, Perishing and the Eclipse of Scholarship
• WINCHESTER, Simon:
  • The Man Who Loved China (UK title: Bomb, Book and Compass) (B) -- the story behind Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China
  • The Meaning of Everything (B+) -- The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
  • The Professor and the Madman (UK title: The Surgeon of Crowthorne) (B+) -- more on the making of the OED
• ZAID, Gabriel:
  • The Secret of Fame (B+)
  • So Many Books (A-) -- Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
• ZANE, J.Peder (ed.): The Top Ten (-) -- Writers Pick their Favorite Books

Return to top of page.

© 2008 the complete review

Main | the New | the Best | the Rest | Review Index | Links