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Favorite authorsScott F. Andrews, Nicholas A. Basbanes, Gregory L. Blackstock, Virginia Lee Burton, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Atul Gawande, Stephen Jay Gould, Thich Nhat Hanh, Bill James, Kiki Vera Johnson, Laurie Keller, Zachariah OHora, Samantha Power, Nate Silver, Edward R. Tufte, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, David Weinberger, Kathleen Joyce Weldon (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresAutumn Leaves Used Books, Back Pages Books, Book Barn (CLOSED summer 2015), Boston Book Annex, Brattle Book Shop, Brookline Booksmith, Commonwealth Books, Harvard Book Store, McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, MIT Press Bookstore, More Than Words Bookstore, New England Mobile Book Fair, Our Bookstore (Saugerties, NY), Pazzo Books, Powell's City of Books (Portland), Raven Used Books, Raven Used Books, Rhythm and Muse, Rodney's Bookstore, Scottie's Book House, Strand Bookstore, The Word Bookstore

Favorite librariesBeatley Library - Simmons College, Boston Public Library, Boston Public Library - Roslindale Branch, Boston Public Library - West Roxbury Branch, Homer Babbidge Library (University of Connecticut Main Library), Mansfield Public Library, Newfield Public Library, Tompkins County Public Library

Other favoritesFriends of the Tompkins County Library Booksale, Boomerangs (thrift store)

Favorite publishersBeacon Press, NYRB Classics

Favorite listsBest books about books, The Hermenautic Bookshelf, Labor History, Ten Books That Have Stayed With Me, Top Five Books of 2015

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Currently readingThe Political Life of Children by Robert Coles
Shakespeare and modern culture by Marjorie B. Garber
U.S.A. : The 42nd parallel, Nineteen-nineteen, The big money by John Dos Passos
Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The White Nile by Alan Moorehead
The Life & Opinions of Tristam Shandy Gentleman (The Modern Library) by Laurence Sterne
The flowering of New England, 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks
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