Booktober: 30 Books Everyone Will Be Talking About This Fall
Autumn is the season of plenty—especially if you love to read. Here are the best of the best from this year's bountiful harvest of uncommonly strong offerings.
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What I Know for Sure
By Oprah Winfrey
240 pages;
Flatiron Books
For nearly 15 years, Oprah's column has been the first page many readers turn to each month when they sit down with a copy of O. Now the best of those columns have been collected and updated in a keepsake volume perfectly sized for bedside reading (Flatiron Books). One of our favorite passages:
"Everything I do all day, I do in preparation for my reading time. Give me a great novel or memoir, some tea, and a cozy spot to curl up in, and I'm in heaven. I love to live in another person's thoughts; I marvel at the bonds I feel with people who come alive on the page, regardless of how different their circumstances might be from mine. I not only feel I know these people, but I also recognize more of myself. Insight, information, knowledge, inspiration, power: All that and more can come through a good book."
Published 08/28/2014