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Informationen zum Autor Anna Quindlen is the author of many bestselling books, including the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Rise and Shine, the #1 bestselling memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life. Her other novels include Blessings, One True Thing, the Oprah Book Club Selection Black and Blue, and Still Life with Bread Crumbs. Klappentext THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series where America's finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Striking and daring, creative and important, these original voices on matters political, social, economic, and cultural, will enlighten, comfort, entertain, enrage, and ignite healthy debate across the country. The Reading Lists from Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life : 10 Big Thick Wonderful Books that Could Take You a Whole Summer to Read (But Aren't Beach Books) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Forstyte Saga by John Galsworthy Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope Sophie's Choice by William Styron Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon Underworld by Don DeLillo Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 10 Non Fiction Books That Help Us Understand the World The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbons The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick Lincoln by David Herbert Douglas Silent Spring by Rachel Carson In Cold Blood by Truman Capote How We Die by Sherwin Nuland The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir The Power Broker by Robert Caro 10 Books that will Help a Teenager Feel More Human Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger A Separate Peace by John Knowles Lost In Place by Mark Salzman What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges The World According to Garp by John Irving Bloodbrothers by Richard Price A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers The 10 Books I Would Save in a Fire (If I Could Only Save 10) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Bleak House by Charles Dickens Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Middlemarch by George Eliot Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats The Collected Plays of William Shakespeare The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Ten Books for a Girl Who is Full of Beans (Or Ought to Be) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Julius the Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank The BFG by Ronald Dahl A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans Catherine Known As Birdy by Katherine Paterson The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi T...