CHRONICLES OF A BIBLIOPHILE

Reading List


I don't know what it is about fall, but recently I have been daydreaming about cuddling up with a good book. Of course because of school I read for hours and hours everyday, but I am talking about fun reading. Here's a quick rundown of the best books in my Amazon cart right now.


(left to right, by category)


FICTION + POETRY
Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead
Elizabeth Hun Schmidt, Poets Laureate Anthology
Maira Kalman, And the Pursuit of Happiness
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything (technically not fiction or poetry, but fun like it anyway!)


DECOR
Christiane Limieux and Rumaan Alam, Undecorate
Grace Bonney, Design*Sponge At Home


ART
Johan Kugelberg, Beauty Is In the Street
Scott Ropthkof, Glenn Ligon: AMERICA
John Elderfield and Jim Coddington, Willem de Kooning: A Retrospective
Douglas Eklund, The Pictures Generation: 1974-1984


DESIGN
Alston Purvis, A Visual History of Typefaces & Graphic Styles, 1901-1938
Rudy VanderLans, Emigre No. 70, The Look Back Issue
Ellen Lupton, Thinking With Type, Revised Edition
Steven Heller, Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century


What books are you dying to read or own?



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