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84, Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
5,835 members
348 reviews
4.2
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Rereadings
by Anne Fadiman
675 members
16 reviews
½ 3.6
8 Members
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4
Parnassus on Wheels
by Christopher Morley
1,770 members
108 reviews
4
7 Members
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A History of Reading
by Alberto Manguel
3,791 members
54 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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7
The Uncommon Reader
by Alan Bennett
5,741 members
569 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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8
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World
by Lawrence Goldstone
1,155 members
34 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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9
The Library at Night
by Alberto Manguel
2,655 members
69 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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10
The Book on the Bookshelf
by Henry Petroski
2,562 members
44 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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11
Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore
by Lawrence Goldstone
756 members
10 reviews
4
5 Members
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12
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
by Sara Nelson
1,443 members
79 reviews
½ 3.4
5 Members
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
by Lewis Buzbee
1,322 members
71 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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14
The Haunted Bookshop
by Christopher Morley
2,038 members
95 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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15
Sixpence House
by Paul Collins
1,331 members
57 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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16
A Passion For Books
by Harold Rabinowitz
1,698 members
19 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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17
Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
by Nancy Pearl
2,629 members
59 reviews
4
4 Members
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
by Peter Boxall
641 members
23 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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19
An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland
by Michael Dirda
303 members
8 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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20
Howards End is on the Landing
by Susan Hill
1,133 members
79 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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23
At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
by Estelle Ellis
1,395 members
24 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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24
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
by Harold Bloom
2,982 members
17 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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25
Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
by Michael Dirda
682 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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26
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard
1,503 members
85 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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27
Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction
by Tom Raabe
905 members
25 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
27,854 members
1,038 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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29
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
12,990 members
279 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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30
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
53,807 members
994 reviews
4
3 Members
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31
A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict
by John Baxter
879 members
20 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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33
Booked to Die
by John Dunning
1,985 members
69 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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34
The Bookshop
by Penelope Fitzgerald
2,799 members
147 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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A Degree of Mastery: A Journey through Book Arts Apprenticeship
by Annie Tremmel Wilcox
309 members
8 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Warmly Inscribed: The New England Forger and Other Book Tales
by Lawrence Goldstone
437 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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38
A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
1,049 members
7 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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40
Aspects of the Novel
by E. M. Forster
2,285 members
39 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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41
The Bookman's Wake
by John Dunning
1,783 members
36 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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42
Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments
by Michael Dirda
411 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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43
Books: A Memoir
by Larry McMurtry
1,099 members
52 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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44
The Library of Shadows
by Mikkel Birkegaard
877 members
44 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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45
More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
by Nancy Pearl
1,315 members
22 reviews
4
2 Members
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46
The Bookshop Book
by Jen Campbell
542 members
17 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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47
The Child That Books Built
by Francis Spufford
923 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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48
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop
by Ronald Rice
558 members
15 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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50
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
by Susannah Carson
365 members
18 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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51
Lost in a Good Book
by Jasper Fforde
9,194 members
235 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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53
The Pooh Perplex: A Freshman Casebook
by Frederick C. Crews
599 members
8 reviews
3.8
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54
The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading
by Michael Dorris
136 members
2 reviews
4.1
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55
How to Read a Novelist
by John Freeman
113 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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56
The Polysyllabic Spree
by Nick Hornby
2,109 members
69 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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57
The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
by Erin Blakemore
328 members
24 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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58
Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books
by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
836 members
25 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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59
A Reader on Reading
by Alberto Manguel
504 members
12 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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60
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
by Maureen Corrigan
1,028 members
32 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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61
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
by Anne Fadiman
938 members
32 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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62
How Reading Changed My Life
by Anna Quindlen
993 members
27 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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63
Reflections: On the Magic of Writing
by Diana Wynne Jones
302 members
9 reviews
½ 4.3
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64
Liebesnähe. Roman
by Hanns-Josef Ortheil
21 members
1 review
½ 3.7
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65
ABC for Book Collectors
by John Carter
1,165 members
10 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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67
How to Read a Book, Revised and Updated Edition
by Mortimer J. Adler
7,601 members
75 reviews
4
2 Members
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68
The Book About Books: The Anatomy of Bibliomania
by Holbrook Jackson
580 members
3 reviews
4
2 Members
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69
The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
17,183 members
910 reviews
4
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70
Libraries
by Candida Höfer
457 members
8 reviews
½ 4.3
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71
Camino Island
by John Grisham
2,871 members
120 reviews
½ 3.5
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72
By Its Cover
by Donna Leon
914 members
44 reviews
½ 3.6
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73
The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
15,651 members
601 reviews
4
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74
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
2,693 members
185 reviews
4
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75
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
by Tom Shippey
1,165 members
12 reviews
4.2
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76
Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers
by Nancy Pearl
563 members
33 reviews
4
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77
The Unwritten Vol. 01: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
by Mike Carey
1,312 members
65 reviews
3.8
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78
The Book Woman's Daughter
by Kim Michele Richardson
706 members
39 reviews
4
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79
The Library Book
by Susan Orlean
4,878 members
283 reviews
4.1
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80
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
by Nina Sankovitch
769 members
58 reviews
½ 3.5
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81
The Unwritten Vol. 02: Inside Man
by Mike Carey
667 members
30 reviews
4
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82
The Unwritten Vol. 03: Dead Man's Knock
by Mike Carey
503 members
27 reviews
4
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84
The Unwritten Vol. 04: Leviathan
by Mike Carey
411 members
24 reviews
4
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85
500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide
by Erica Bauermeister
348 members
7 reviews
4
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86
Firmin
by Sam Savage
1,798 members
120 reviews
½ 3.4
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87
One for the Books
by Joe Queenan
455 members
31 reviews
½ 3.7
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88
1001 Books for Every Mood
by Hallie Ephron
282 members
10 reviews
3.8
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89
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950
by Carmen Callil
286 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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90
Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps
by Michael Bronski
203 members
3 reviews
3.9
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92
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
by Grady Hendrix
886 members
50 reviews
4.2
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93
Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read
by Sandra Newman
259 members
11 reviews
3.8
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94
Sin-a-rama : sleaze sex paperbacks of the sixties
by Lydia Lunch
118 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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97
A Reading Diary: A Year of Favourite Books
by Alberto Manguel
733 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
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98
Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoir
by Rick Gekoski
106 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
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99
Library: An Unquiet History
by Matthew Battles
2,127 members
45 reviews
½ 3.5
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100
How to Read and Why
by Harold Bloom
2,874 members
33 reviews
½ 3.5
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