THE POWER OF BOOKS – NONFICTION

In GLORY EDIM’s Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me, she celebrates the Black writers who changed her life with their words, and recounts how they taught her to find her own voice and uplift other Black women’s stories. EVAN FRISS’ The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look at a beloved yet endangered institution. In PAMELA PAUL’s My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues, she recounts the list-of-books-read journal that she’s kept by her side for more than three decades – a journey in reading reflecting her inner life – and in 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet she offers powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial things we’ve lost. DONNA SEAMAN’s memoir River of Books recounts her journey of becoming an editor for Booklist, a reviewer, an author, and a literary citizen, and lays bare how she nourished body and soul through her work. Moderated by ED NAWOTKA, senior international and bookselling editor of Publishers Weekly.

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Buy Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me – Edim

Buy The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore – Friss

Buy My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues – Paul

Buy 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet – Paul

Buy River of Books – Seaman