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March 29, 2025

Speeches & Writing of John Quincy Adams in Library of America

March 29, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Speeches & Writing of John Quincy Adams in Library of America

A well-annotated new collection of the writings of John Quincy Adams

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March 29, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
David Waldstreicher, Library of America, John Quincy Adams, American literature
December 01, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Reprints!

December 01, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Reprints!

The best reprinted volumes of 2023!

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December 01, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Stevereads
Best Books of 2023: Reprints, Best Reprints 2023, Divine Days, Leon Forrest, Right By My Side, David Hayes, Theodore Savage, Cicely Hamilton, Nature's Temples: A Natural History of Old-Growth Forest, Joan Maoof, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Mo Willems, Joanna Russ, Library of America, Legends of the Dark Knight, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, The Life of Birds, David Attenborough, The Big Book of Cyberpunk, Jared Shurin, Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, Steve Donoghue
November 06, 2022

The Library of America Don DeLillo

November 06, 2022/ Tom LeClair
The Library of America Don DeLillo

Three works by the great American novelist Don DeLillo enter the Library of America.

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November 06, 2022/ Tom LeClair/
Anthologies/Short Stories, Literary Criticism
Don DeLillo, Library of America, Mark Osteen, American fiction, anthology, Tom LeClair, 1980's
April 03, 2021

Library of America E. O. Wilson

April 03, 2021/ Steve Donoghue
Library of America E. O. Wilson

The great naturalist E. O. Wilson gets a lovely Library of America volume.

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April 03, 2021/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature
Biophilia, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist, E.O. Wilson, David Quammen, Library of America, natural history, Steve Donoghue
December 05, 2020

The Best Books of 2020: Nature!

December 05, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2020: Nature!

The category of nature has become much more relevant in the year of COVID-19.

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December 05, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature, Stevereads
Best Books of 2020, Nature, nature writing, White Feathers, Bernd Heinrich, Good Boy, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Being Frog, April Pulley Sayre, Becoming Wild, Carl Safina, The Nature of Fear, The Book of Eels, Daniel Blumstein, Patrik Svensson, Owls of the Eastern Ice, Jonathan Slaght, American Birds, Andrew Rubenfeld, Terry Tempest Williams, Library of America, Cat Tale, Craig Pittman, Nature Underfoot, John Hainze, Steve Donoghue, stevereads
December 01, 2020

The Best Books of 2020: Reprints!

December 01, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2020: Reprints!

2020 was a good solid year for reprints.

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December 01, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Stevereads
Best of 2020, Best of Lists, Vivian Gornick, William Gaddis, John M. Ford, e. e. cummings, Samuel Johnson, Constance Fenimore Woolson, George Eliot, Spinoza's Ethics, Library of America, JRR Tolkien, Shirley Hazzard, Steve Donoghue, stevereads, Stevereads
February 28, 2020

Collected Stories of Constance Fenimore Woolson

February 28, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Collected Stories of Constance Fenimore Woolson

The Library of America presents a generous volume of short stories by a now mostly forgotten literary light of the 19th century

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February 28, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Anthologies/Short Stories
Constance Fenimore Woolson, Library of America, Anne Boyd Rioux, Steve Donoghue
January 31, 2019

Four Novels of the 1930s by John O’Hara

January 31, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
Four Novels of the 1930s by John O’Hara

These novels gave form to the unreachable dreams of glory that would motivate and torment O’Hara for the rest of his professional career.

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January 31, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Literary Criticism
Four Novels of the 1930's, John O'Hara, Library of America, anthology, literary fiction, Penguin Random House
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