Seven Books About Our Passion and Need for Reading

I have written lists like this before during all the years I’ve been writing and giving talks about why books and reading matter. But I do so now with increasing urgency as we are inundated by a tsunami of censorship, from book bans to assaults against the free press and school curriculums, the excising of facts and words from government websites (our websites, our history), and attacks on educators and students. These diabolical onslaughts are further weaponized by the reckless defunding of scientific and medical research and the undermining of public libraries (including the Library of Congress), museums, and other cultural institutions. These shockingly destructive actions are meant to erode intellectual and artistic freedom and dismantle our constitutional rights.