Susan Orlean
Goodreads Author
Born
in Cleveland, OH (CLE), The United States
October 31
Website
Twitter
Member Since
March 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/susanorlean
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The Library Book
39 editions
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2018
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The Orchid Thief
9 editions
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published
1998
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On Animals
16 editions
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published
2021
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
31 editions
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published
2011
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The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People
18 editions
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published
2001
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My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
8 editions
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published
2004
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You Are Ready For Takeoff: A Short Trip
3 editions
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published
2021
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Saturday Night
15 editions
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published
1990
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The Best American Essays 2005
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7 editions
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published
2005
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The Best American Travel Writing 2007
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5 editions
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published
2007
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“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn’t understand it, but over time I came to realize it was perfect. Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual’s consciousness is a collection of memories we’ve cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them. It is where we can glimpse immortality; in the library, we can live forever.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.”
― The Orchid Thief
― The Orchid Thief
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