A review by opal360
Twenty-Five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity by Thomas C. Foster

informative slow-paced

3.75

An informative read but I found some chapters more engaging than others. I began to wish the writer had focused on his personal top 25 instead of tying everything to national identity. Often he would explain that he had chosen Book A by a given author over Book B (which he thought was better) because Book A had contributed more to the American national identity. But the problem for me was that he never sounded as enthusiastic about Book A and that somehow made the chapters go slower - especially when he spent so much of each chapter narrating the plot of the novel. I think when he was fired up about a book it really came across!

I listened to this on audio so that may have influenced my response.