Jeff Kinney's Reading List

"For a long stretch in my life, if I opened this book to any page, I couldn't stop reading. It was like flipping on the television and discovering 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' was playing."

"I felt like I was looking in a mirror, warts and all. I've come to understand that seeing yourself in the pages of a book is a privilege that every kid deserves to experience."

"Books like this one — especially by authors who don't share the same lived experiences as me — help me feel like I'm leveling up as a person."

"Principles in the book led directly to the creation of Poptropica, a kids' virtual world I helped launch in 2007, and helped me write fresh jokes for 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' long after I'd exhausted my repository of childhood memories."

"That George Washington sent smallpox survivors into Boston to occupy it after the city was evacuated by the British in 1776, since they were immune to reinfection and wouldn't fall prey to smallpox-tainted items left behind."

"I've read "Thank You for Your Servitude," by Mark Leibovich, six or seven times. It's amazing that a book about Trump's enablers could be so wryly funny."

"I'd still feel electricity if you put that book in my hands today."