Rescuing a book from the Inferno
Is there a special book that has made a difference in your life? Don't waste another minute, save it today!

What Others Have Done

"The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
Dr. Seuss

Reading is a Superpower Everyone Can Have

Unfortunately, many people's potential goes untapped. Reading gives us knowledge, escape, happiness, intelligence, unity, and more--things everyone deserves.

Here are just a few of the books that have been recently saved from extinction:

John Hll saved Walden.

Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The House of Mirth Edith Wharton; The Second Coming Walker Percy    Saved by Colette Matola 

Please save my babies!  Below are ten of my books I’d like saved! Last Light Over Carolina; Time is a River; The Beach House; Swimming Lessons; Turtle Summer; Sweetgrass; Skyward; The Four Seasons; The Book Club; Second Star to the Right.   Good luck on this great initiative!  Mary Alice Monroe 

 

Save Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak because everyone should be able to dream and know that home is where someone loves you best of all.  Nanci Kestenbaum

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand because I think the message of this book is very appropriate right now; a timeless warning against those movements and policies that contribute to a society of mediocrity. And Watership Down, by Richard Adams, because it’s a wonderful story and a classic everyone should be able to read at some point in their lives. Thank you for your hard work!  Mary Nicholas

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, and Are You My Mother? by P.D.Eastman are worth their weight in gold for the smiles they brought to both my kids’ faces when they were young!   Kate Boehm Jerome

Please save the following books:  1) The Diary of Anne Frank; 2) Letters of Eloise and Abbelard; 3) To Kill a Mockingbird; 4) Little Women; 5) Go Ask Alice; 6) A Farewell to Arms; 7) A Cat in the Hat; 8) The Pearl; 9) Everyman; 10) Wuthering Heights    Cynthia Nirenblatt

I have just made a contribution to save one book.  I would like to save A Tree Grows in Brooklyn…it was my mother’s favorite book and the only book she had as a young girl in West Virginia where she later became a teacher. Georgeann Jantzen

Mary Ogden Fersner saved To Kill a Mockingbird, and Secret Life of Bees.

Good Night Moon, saved by Ellen de Jong

I would like to save 2 copies of each of the following:
My childhood favorites: Green Mansions, The Picture of Dorian Gray
My recent favorites:  Shadow of the Wind, The Sparrow
In honor of my husband Peter: A World Lit Only by Fire
In honor of my daughter Melanie: The Power of One
In honor of my son Gavin: Child 44
In memory of my sister Julie: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Gone with the Wind
Jann O’Toole
 
Eileen Chepenik saved: Grapes of Wrath,  As a Driven Leaf, and Goodnight Moon.
 
I would like to save 10 books: 1. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay; 2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas; 3. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov; 4. I’m Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti; 5. American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis; 6. Remainder by Tom McCarthy; 7. The Witching Hour by Ann Rice; 8. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn; 9. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller; 10. The Cuba Diaries by Isadora Tattlin.  I picked books that created such strong mental images that I think of them fairly often, no matter how long ago I read them.    Melanie O’Toole

I saved two of my all-time favorite books: The World According to Garp by John Irving; The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Good luck with the fund-raising. A clever and painless idea!   Kay K. Chitty


I want to save these 3 books, ones which have changed the way I, and others, see the world: To Kill a Mockingbird, Complete Works of Shakespeare, Native Son. Great idea.  Good luck.     Lucy Painter

 Please save the following books in honor of my sister, Eileen Chepenik: The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks; The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher; The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy; The Source by James Michener; The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca  Wells ; Eloise by Kay Thompson; The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein; My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett; The Three Little Kittens by Jane Chambliss-Rigie;The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper; The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; By Dorothea Benton Frank: Bull’s Island, Isle of Palms, Sullivan’s Island, Full of Grace, Plantation, Pawleys Island, Shem Creek, The Christmas Pearl, The Land of Mango Sunsets. Thank you for saving this small list of my favorite books. Patsy Feinberg

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