How to Read a Book

The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Editor Charles Van Doren
First Written 1940
Genre Nonfiction
Origin US
Publisher Touchstone
My Copy paperback
First Read September 4, 2003

How to Read a Book

Notes

This is honestly a great guide to the kinds of reading you can do, and how and why to do them. My wife loves to joke about this book, pretending to hold it upside down and sound out the letters: hhooooowww tooooo rrreeeeaaad. That's a testament to its title, which is excellent. I read it first twenty years ago or more and with I had read it earlier!

Noted on September 4, 2025

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