My Ideal Bookshelf (edited by Thessaly La Force) HC-New

The Books That We Choose To Keep-let Alone Read-can Say A Lot About Who We Are And How We See Ourselves. In The Ideal Bookshelf, Dozens Of Leading Cultural Figures Share The Books That Matter To Them Most-books That Define Their Dreams And Ambitions And In Many Cases Helped Them Find Their Way In The World. With Colorful And Endearingly Hand-rendered Images Of Book Spines By Jane Mount, And First-person Commentary From All The Contributors, This Is A Perfect Gift For Avid Readers, Writers, And All Who Have Known The Influence Of A Great Book– Contributors Reveal Their Ideal Bookshelves: Hugh Acheson — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — Daniel Alarcón — Hilton Als — Paola Antonelli — Judd Apatow — Tauba Auerbach — Dan Barber — Jo Ann Beard — Jen Bekman — Coralie Bickford-smith — Mark Bittman — Sophie Buhai And Lisa Mayock — Rosanne Cash — Michael Chabon — Candy Chang — David Chang — Rachel Comoey — Robert Crais — Sloane Crosley — Adrian Danchig-waring And Pontus Lidberg — Tom Delavan — Junot Díaz — Simon Doonan — Jennifer Egan — Dave Eggers — Tina Roth Eisenberg — Merrill Elam And Mack Scogin — Derek Fagerstrom And Lauren Smith — Drew Gilpin Faust — James Franco — Sasha Frere-jones — Tobias Frere-jones — Ben Fry — Riva Galchen — Atul Gawande — Malcolm Gladwel — Kim Gordon — Philip Gourevitch — Jorie Graham — Andrew Sean Greer — Lev Grossman — Gabrielle Hamilton — Daniel Handler — Tony Hawk — Todd Hido — Pico Iyer — Oliver Jeffers — Miranda July — Maira Kalman — Zachary Kanin — Mary Karr — Thomas Keller — David Kelley — Chuck Klosterman — Lawrence Lessig — Jonathan Lethem — Yiyun Li — Pamela Love — Larissa Macfarquhar — John Maeda — Stephin Merritt — Stephanie Meyer — Marilyn Minter — Thurston Moore — Nico Murhly — Kate And Laura Mulleavy — Mira Nair — Christoph Niemann — Sigrid Nunez — James Patterson — Nancy Pearl — Francine Prose — Ishmael Reed — Alex Ross — Stfan Sagmeister — George Saunders — Ben Schott — David Sedaris — Leanne Shapton — Sally Singer — Nadia Sirota — Aria Beth Sloss — Patti Smith — Alec Soth — Scott Spencer — Lorin Stein — John Jerremiah Sullivan — Christina Tose — Wells Tower — Gina Trapani — Jakob Trollbäck — Robert Verdi — Vendela Vida — Ayelet Waldman — Alice Waters — William Wegman — George Weld — Megan Whitmarsh — Henry Sene Yee — Jonathan Zittrain. Art By Jane Mount ; Edited By Thessaly La Force. Includes Bibliographical References.