Books About Books

Books about: other books, literacy in general, writers, bookstores, literary culture. Usually non-fiction, but can be fiction as long as books are a central plot theme.


An Academic Affair
The Burning Library
The Forget-Me-Not Library
The Bookshop Below
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen's Unsung Characters
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
The Sky of Sacrifice (The Book of Wisdom Trilogy, #2)
After Hours at Dooryard Books
Merry Little Bookshop
In Love With Love: The Persistence and Joy of Romantic Fiction
Fanny's Big Idea: How Jewish Book Week Was Born
King Sorrow
Overdue
The Book of Autumn
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)
Beach Read
An Academic Affair
Writers & Lovers
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
The Secret Christmas Library
The Ghostwriter
The Christmas Book Hunt
Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay
Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #2)
By Any Other Name
Marble Hall Murders (Susan Ryeland, #3)
The Secret Book Society
The Book Club Hotel
Booked for the Holidays
Kristy's Great Idea by Ann M. MartinDouble Love by Francine PascalJust as Long as We're Together by Judy BlumeForever... by Judy BlumeThe Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
Paperback Crush
295 books — 25 voters

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury84 Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Books on Books: metacovers
385 books — 104 voters

The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Book Thief
84, Charing Cross Road
The Library Book
The Thirteenth Tale
The Midnight Library
Fahrenheit 451
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Reading List
Book Lovers
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief, #1)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

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a bookstore is a place densely populated with tens of thousands of authors, dead or living, residing side by side. But books are quiet. They remain dead silent until somebody flips open a page. Only then so they spill out their stories, calmly and thoroughly, just enough at a time for me to handle.
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