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David Benioff’s novel “City of Thieves” is the World-War-II page turner that helped Lemoine realize that every nonreader is just waiting for one great book to transform them into lovers of literature.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2022

The tale of Reynolds’s transformation from a nonreader living on the edge in Oxon Hill, Md., to a literary celebrity is the kind of relatable story he wished he’d read when he was a kid.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2017

Nonetheless, this effects-heavy but still slight-seeming movie has a strangely tractlike quality: It seems to be intending some lesson or moral that, as a nonreader of the book, I never quite got.

From Slate • Nov. 1, 2013

For the habitual nonreader to leap into Finnegans Wake or Wittgenstein is almost as unseemly and possibly as dangerous as it is for a middle-aged stockbroker to demonstrate push-ups at a party.

From Time Magazine Archive

By cultural osmosis, even the nonreader knows the basic story.

From Time Magazine Archive