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David Michael Slater

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David Michael Slater is an acclaimed author of over 40 books of fiction and nonfiction for children, teens, and adults.

Average rating: 3.86 · 1,268 ratings · 388 reviews · 70 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Boy & the Book

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3.55 avg rating — 385 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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The Book of Nonsense (Forbi...

3.70 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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The Vanishing

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Bigfoot (Mysterious Monster...

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The Bored Book

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3.69 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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We're Doing It Wrong: 25 Id...

3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions
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Bear With Me

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Fun & Games

3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions
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The Book of Knowledge (Forb...

4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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Seven Ate Nine

3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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The Book of Nonsense The Book of Secrets The Book of Knowledge The Book of Maps The Book of All Things The Book of Names The Book of Letters
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Set in Depression-era Mississippi, The Calamity Club follows three women whose lives eventually collide: Meg Lefleur, a mistreated eleven-year-old orphan; Birdie Calhoun, a practical, unmarried bookkeeper trying to save her family from financial disa ...more
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Julian Barnes's Departures is an unusual novel in the form of a memoir, made up of short pieces about places, people, books, art, travel, and aging. It's clearly about himself, but never in a straightforward autobiographical way. He often approaches ...more
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Gad Saad’s Suicidal Empathy is one of the best-selling books in the world right now, which alone should serve as a wake-up call.

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Tilt is the story of a Portland woman, Annie, who, while very pregnant, gets trapped in Ikea when the Big One destroys most of the city. After extricating herself from the rubble, she sets out on a seemingly perilous quest to find her husband. Her jo ...more
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How to Know a Person by David  Brooks
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I don't have a lot to say about How To Know a Person, other than it ought to be used as a textbook for our kids from middle school on. Brooks has been on a quest, essentially, to become a better person. And here he shares his learning of the many way ...more
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Yan Martel is a marvel. I, like millions of others, adored Life of Pi. The follow-up, The High Mountains of Portugal, attracted far less attention, but to my mind, it was even more enchanting.

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The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker
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The Strange Case of Jane O had me at "If The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was fiction." But, in fact, that couldn't be further from the truth. It might be the most aggravating book I've ever read because it's not bad out of the gate and all the ...more
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None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
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None of This Is True starts with a chance meeting between two women—Alix, a successful podcaster, and Josie, a quiet woman with a disturbing past—who discover they share the same birthday. Intrigued, Alix decides to feature Josie in a podcast, but as ...more
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I've been thinking about The Sellout for a while because it might be, pound for pound, the most savagely funny book I've ever read. Just about every line offers one or two (or more) brilliantly articulated satirical observations, descriptions, and/or ...more
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I thought Jenny McCurdy's memoir, I'm Glad My Mom is Dead, was terrific. Half His Age reads like a sequel, but it's a novel about a seventeen-year-old girl's affair with her (ahem) English teacher. The writing is again excellent: it's raw (and exp
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