What Kind of Reader Are You? Take the McNally Editions Quiz

What type of reader are you? A realist, an escape artist, or a decadent? Find out by taking the McNally Editions Reader Quiz, which matches readers with a tailored subscription carefully curated to your tastes and sensibilities.

 

The Escape Artist

Imaginative, empathic, ever-so slightly obsessive, the escape artist is capable of disappearing for hours inside the mind of a favorite author.

The Escape Artist subscribers have received: Ex-Wife, by Ursula Parrott • Twice Lost, by Phyllis Paul, Foreword by Jeremy M. Davies • The Girls, by John Bowen • Rattlebone, by Maxine Clair • A Green Equinox, by Elizabeth Mavor • They, by Kay Dick, Afterword by Lucy Scholes • The Feast, by Margaret Kennedy • Emily Dickinson Face to Face, by Martha Dickinson Bianchi

 

The Realist

Discerning, cosmopolitan, fascinated by history and changes in intellectual fashion, the realist loves a novel that holds a mirror up to its era. 

The Realist subscribers have received: Ex-Wife, by Ursula Parrott • Something to Do with Paying Attention, by David Foster Wallace, Preface by Sarah McNally • Lover Man, by Alston Anderson • An Obedient Father, by Akhil Sharma • The Goodby People, by Gavin Lambert • Daddy's Gone A-Hunting, by Penelope Mortimer • Rattlebone, by Maxine Clair • Emily Dickinson Face to Face, by Martha Dickinson Bianchi

 

The Decadent

Sophisticated, curious, hard to shock, the decadent takes a refined pleasure in the many varieties of human nature, even at its most extreme. 

The Decadent subscribers have received: Lord Jim at Home, by Dinah Brooke, Foreword by Ottessa Moshfegh • Winter Love, by Han Suyin • Rent Boy, by Gary Indiana • The Murderer, by Roy Heath • The Goodby People, by Gavin Lambert • The Devil's Treasure, by Mary Gaitskill • White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin, by Michael W. Clune • They, by Kay Dick, Afterword by Lucy Scholes

 
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