Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives by Mangan, Lucy

Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives

A celebration of books and a love story to the written word that reveals how books help...
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Author: Lucy Mangan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives by Mangan, Lucy

Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives

$89.99 $47.29

Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives

$89.99 $47.29
Author: Lucy Mangan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A celebration of books and a love story to the written word that reveals how books help us connect with other readers through shared stories.

As a child, Lucy Mangan was reading all the time, using books to navigate the challenges and complexities of this world and many others. As an adult, she uses her new relationship with literature to seize upon the most important question: (how) do books prepare us for life?

Bookish vividly tells the story of a reader's life from the cusp of teenagehood, when everything - including the way we read - undergoes a not-so-subtle transformation. Lucy vividly recounts her metamorphosis from young bookworm to bookish adult, from the way school curricula impact our relationship with literature, to the growing pains of swapping the pleasures of re-reading for those of book-hoarding.

Revisiting the books of all genres (from literary novels and historical saga fiction to apocalyptic zombie novels) that ferried her through each important stage of life--falling in love, finding a job, becoming a mother, and navigating grief--Bookish is a coming-of-age story told through books. It's an ode to our favorite bookish spaces (from the smallest secondhand bookstalls to our favorite libraries, mega-bookshops, and our own bookshelves) and a love story to how books not only shelter our souls through hard times, but also how they help us connect with the people we love through shared stories.

Author: Lucy Mangan
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 02/03/2026
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.36w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9798897100446


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2025
Library Journal 12/01/2025 pg. 78

About the Author
Lucy Mangan is a columnist for Stylist magazine and a features writer and reviewer for The Guardian, The Telegraph and many other publications. She broadcasts frequently on radio and occasionally on television, and is the author of My Family and Other Disasters, The Reluctant Bride, Hopscotch and Handbags, and Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory. Lucy lives in London.

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