JenOfChicago's Bookshelf

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What's on JenOfChicago's Bookshelf? Read all my book reviews and recommendations here!

Reading is one of my favorite activities - and I love to share my favorites with other people too. From fiction to business, biography to children's books - I read it all!

I've collected all of my book review lenses below for you in one easy place. Browse below and see my take on these books, look at my recommendations, and check out a few of my personally curated lists of topical books. Plus, enjoy my related lenses on reading to your child and word games for the whole family. I hope you enjoy it!

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Fabulous Fiction - Novel Novels

Fiction Book Reviews

Ready to escape it all? Dive into a great book!
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Topic: Build Your Business!

Great Business Books

These books will make you a smarter employee and a more effective boss, and send you on your way to being an all around business guru!
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Topic: Chicago

Learn about the city of Chicago, celebrate the city's culture, or just be entertained by a story set in the city of Chicago - this page is a curated list, divided by topic, of all kinds of books about Chicago.
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Topic: Career Development Books

Feeling like your career is off the rails? Wondering what your next step is? Job-hunting? You need these books about career development and personal fulfillment.
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Topic: Children's Seasonal Books

Have a spookily good time with these books!
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Baby's First Reading - Learn To Read With Alphabet Art & Posters

Get your child started right with these decorations for a nursery, bedroom or playroom - the sooner they learn the alphabet, the sooner they will be reading!

These posters are also great for classrooms and homeschool families too.
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Do you read as much as I do? Maybe you need another bookcase too!

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Author Spotlights

Go behind the book and learn more about these wonderful authors!
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Increase Your Vocabulary and Reading Level - Great Word Games!

Fun for the whole family, these word games will make you forget you're learning anything, they're so entertaining!
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Reading IS Sexy!

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What's your favorite book?

  • cdevries Dec 12, 2011 @ 5:37 pm | delete
    A huge tie between To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, LotR, Persuasion, Josephine Tey's Bratt Farrar, Wind in the Willows, the Vorkosign series, Pratchett's Discworld...
  • ohcaroline Aug 27, 2011 @ 9:58 am | delete
    Too many favorites to list...but autobiographies and history books as well as craft instructional books are my favorites.
  • SereneSea Mar 18, 2011 @ 1:43 am | delete
    There are many books that are my favourites - Jane Eyre, Stephen Hawkings , If tommorow comes, Prisoner of Birth, Harry Potter and so on....

    Love your ideas of lensography of bookshelf
  • vallain Mar 4, 2011 @ 6:19 pm | delete
    Tryst by Elswyth Thane, a vintage romance about a young girl who falls in love with a ghost. I keep meaning to make a lens about it.

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JenOfChicago

I'm a proud Chicagoan, and I enjoy writing about Chicago first and foremost. I am also interested in politics, public leaders, non-profits, volunteering,... more »

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