Alberto manguel books to read

          The Library at Night.

        1. The Library at Night.
        2. Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions.
        3. A History of Reading.
        4. The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Exp.
        5. A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year.

          6. A History of Reading..

          “I believe there is an ethic of reading, a responsibility in how we read, a commitment that is both political and private in the act of turning the pages and following the lines. And I believe that sometimes, beyond the author’s intentions and beyond the reader’s hopes, a book can make us better and wiser.” Part of his first essay in A Reader on Reading, Alberto Manguel discusses, as he does throughout his career, the role reading has on our lives.

          A self-proclaimed lifelong reader and accidental writer, Manguel has worn many hats in his life, a diplomat’s son, a ‘wandering jew,’ an Argentinian, a Canadian, the apprentice of Borges, and finally a writer.

          However, there seems to be one thing that supersedes all throughout his life: his identity as a reader. Reading has been his constant passion, and honestly what has differentiated his writing from that of so many other essayists, biographers, and novelists—I say that because Manguel carri