Susan Orlean (Author of The Library Book)

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I'm the product of a happy and uneventful childhood in the suburbs of Cleveland, followed by a happy and pretty eventful four years as a student at University of Michigan. From there, I wandered to the West Coast, landing in Portland, Oregon, where I managed (somehow) to get a job as a writer. This had been my dream, of course, but I had no experience and no credentials. What I did have, in spades, was an abiding passion for storytelling and sentence-making. I fell in love with the experience of writing, and I've never stopped. From Portland, I moved to Boston, where I wrote for the Phoenix and the Globe, and then to New York, where I began writing for magazines, and, in 1987, published my first piece in The New Yorker. I've been a staff wr ...more

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	The Library Book 3.89 avg rating — 119,908 ratings — published 2018 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Orchid Thief 3.67 avg rating — 20,914 ratings — published 1998 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Animals 3.83 avg rating — 5,702 ratings — published 2021 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend 3.53 avg rating — 4,924 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People 3.80 avg rating — 1,459 ratings — published 2001 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere 3.56 avg rating — 846 ratings — published 2004 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Are Ready For Takeoff: A Short Trip 3.65 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saturday Night 3.60 avg rating — 457 ratings — published 1990 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Essays 2005 by Susan Orlean (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Robert Atwan (Series Editor) 4.02 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Travel Writing 2007 by Susan Orlean (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Jason Wilson (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Series Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn鈥檛 understand it, but over time I came to realize it was perfect. Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual鈥檚 consciousness is a collection of memories we鈥檝e cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

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“The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them. It is where we can glimpse immortality; in the library, we can live forever.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

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“The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.”
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The Library Book by Susan Orlean

11 votes, 33.3%

Bitter Harvest by Ann Rule

9 votes, 27.3%

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

6 votes, 18.2%

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

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And Every Word Is True And Every Word Is True by Gary McAvoy

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