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Frank's avatar

I’m new to Substack and still struggling to find my way around so I might posted this twice by mistake. I think the book you would not admit to having read is The Art of the Deal.

Nikki Miller's avatar

no guilty pleasures, @austinkleon! did you tell us which one you redacted?! I went through a serious Francine Rivers - Christian romantic fiction - phase. See, I'm leading with vulnerability so you know you can trust us :)

Christine Havens's avatar

Did anybody guess correctly?

Nick Adebanjo's avatar

The Bible! It was so obvious folks!

Ellen Girardeau Kempler's avatar

Austin, if you have not read Christiane Ritter’s classic, nonfiction account of her year with her husband, “A Woman in the Polar Night,” illustrated with line drawings of an Arctic fox and other observations, I think you should. I discovered it in a free lending library at a Bergen hotel before taking the Norwegian mail boat up the coast to the Russian border in the middle of January. It might be just what you need to ease the heat of Texas summer! Thanks for the recs!

Justin Wieners's avatar

Redacted: Art of the Deal

Catherine Grimm's avatar

Redacted: Atlas Shrugged or sth else by Ayn Rand?

Katie Dawson's avatar

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Nora's avatar

I would like to suggest two books for your consideration: "Tapestry of a Life" and "Woven Yarns" woven by Yours Truly (Nora Curran). The blurb should give you adequate information as to the themes therein and about yours truly. Thank you and keep on writing and sending those missives.

Marilyn's avatar

Book Lovers or a biography… maybe Open by Andre Agassi?

Erika Gonzalez's avatar

[Redacted]: The Notebook by Nicolas Sparks. Also, if you feel the need to reread War and Peace the Anthony Briggs version is fantastic.

Diane V. Mulligan's avatar

I tried to follow your lead and read a big classics this summer, but I gave up after about 100 pages 😂 I tried to reread “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” which I actually did read as a high school junior in 1996, but definitely did not understand. This time I decided I don’t know enough Irish history to understand it.

Amanda's avatar

Redacted: Elon Musk's biography

Amanda's avatar

Also, I loved War and Peace, and Meditations for Mortals.