How Reading Changed My Life

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Anna Quindlen presents a “swift and compelling paean to the joys of books” ( Booklist ). “Like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, [ How Reading Changed My Life ] is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary, and a pleasure to read.”— Publishers Weekly “Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. . . . Yet of all the many things in which we recognize universal comfort—God, sex, food, family, friends—reading seem