Part One - Enjoying Fiction without Guilt
1. Introduction : Reading for Yourself
2. Fear of Feeling : The Conspiracy Against Reading
3. How to Read for Your Life
4. Reading Against the Tube

Part Two - Reading For Time
5. The Past
6. Reading, Feeling and Emotion
7. The Truth that Lies Ahead

Part Three - Growing Through Reading
8. Literature and Human Development
9. Growing Up Sane

Part Four - Problems, Crises and Coping
10. Marriage and Union Dues
11. Separation, Divorce and Other Opportunities
12. Everyone Loses Some of the Time

Part Five - Reading in Our Time
13. Pushups or Pushovers : It's All in Your Mind
14. Grow Old Along with Yourself
15. Not Funny at the Time!
16. Subjects, Objects and Rejects
17. Once upon a time - In School

Part Six - The End of the Beginning
18. Conclusion

Appendix I. Bibliotheraphy : Another Conclusion
Appendix II. Literature in Professional Training
Appendix III. Questionnaire 1 : Reader Response
Appendix IV. Questionnarie 2 : Reading Selection Self Guide
Behind This Book - An Afterword