Synopses & Reviews
The guide to the best 40,000 books in print. "The Victorian optimism behind the Reader's Catalog, its ambition to devise a syllabus of outstanding available titles on topics as diverse as 'Ancient Mediterranean Religions' and 'Weight-Loss Diets, ' can be found nowhere else in American literary life. The Catalog discriminating, yet expansive, a feat of editing..". -- Newsday