Book Girl

Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life is Sarah Clarkson's argument that books do real work on the people who read them. Drawing on the classics she grew up with — Anne of Green Gables, Narnia, Jane Austen — and on her theological study at Oxford, she writes about how her parents raised her to be a reader and what that reading did to her.

The book is organised thematically: how books broaden perspective, shape identity, cultivate imagination, build community, deepen faith and offer hope in struggle. Each section pairs an essay with an annotated reading list, and the book contains more than twenty such lists.

It is a Christian non-fiction book about books, written for women who want reading to be more than a pastime.