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Book Review: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Reading Richard Bach’s bestseller grounds the reader as it invites you to stretch and rise

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Scott Holleran
Jun 01, 2026
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Like The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (with photographs by Russell Munson) puts the bird at the center of a philosophical lesson. This book by Macmillan in New York City—a huge bestseller that’s still in print, selling over 44 million books—dedicated by the author “to the real Jonathan Seagull, who lives within us all,” begins:

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