Lust Some More

After Nancy Pearl published her first volume of Book Lust in 2003, she couldn't sleep. The former librarian, who has been doing book reviews on public radio for more than 10 years, would wake up in the middle of the night remembering books that she forgot to include, even though there were already over 1,800 titles in her groupings by theme.

"Authors would pop into my head," she says from her eldest daughter's home in Maryland, where she was visiting while on her book tour. "I'd suddenly wonder, did I include Anthony Trollope? And I'd ask my husband, "Joe, Joe, did I include Anthony Trollope?"

After making a few more lists, she decided she needed a second volume, and she was helped along with More Book Lust by hundreds of fans who either came up to her at book signings or emailed her suggestions at the address she lists in the introduction to her first book.

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