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Have you ever wondered why other people read what they do?  Have you ever been curious, even tempted, to try a new author or genre, but weren’t quite sure which book to start with?

JustOneBook.net is a literary blog with a particular focus: if you were going to recommend an author’s work to a reader new to that writer, which book would you tell them to start with?  This question presupposes a whole bunch of problematic literary paradigms, including aesthetic theory, the nature of authorial agency, and whether one can even speak of a literary body of work as a single entity.  As serious literary scholars, we have decided not to give a toss about any of those questions.  We’re more interested in checking out what makes an author “good,” what they do right and wrong, and maybe turning readers on to works they’ve never considered before.

JustOneBook.net is administered by Aaron and Michele Potter.  Between the two of them they have a Ph.D, three Masters degrees, and two BAs in the fields of English, Library Science, Humanities, Critical Theory, and Educational Psychology…not necessarily in that order.  Their favorite genres include all of them.