Reading Science
Reading Maryanne Wolf: A Guide to Her Books
Nido Team
Four books, one project: understanding what happens when a human brain learns to read. Where to start:
Proust and the Squid (2007): the breakout book, in 15 translations. How humans invented reading, how each child’s brain learns it, and what happens in dyslexia. Start here for the full foundation.
Reader, Come Home (2018): nine letters on what digital culture does to the deep-reading brain, and how to raise “biliterate” children. Princeton’s Pre-read for 2026. Start here if screens are what brought you.
Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (2016, with Stephanie Gottwald): the neuroscience meets the global literacy crisis. Start here if literacy-as-justice is your angle.
Dyslexia, Fluency, and the Brain (2001, editor): the research volume that made fluency a field of its own. For specialists.
Find them all at maryannewolf.com.
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