Books featuring or about libraries

This has been a quiet group as of late so I thought I'd give everyone a chance to share what books they've read recently that are either about a library or librarian, has the word library in the title, is fiction or nonfiction, or is just something they would recommend to fellow librarians/library staff.

I'll begin with sharing a ripping horror story called The Library at Mount Char. Beyond the name there is very little to do with a library in this book except for the fact that the characters all have powers/gifts/abilities they have learned from books.

I would also like to share the on line comic called Unshelved. It's a little library fun every day.
This is today's strip.

Your post reminded me of this list. No comic strip, though!

I'm surprised The name of the Rose isn't on that list.

Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife is set in large part at Chicago's Newberry Library. She has also written a graphic novel called The Night Bookmobile.

>3 binders: Nor is "The Library of Babel" in Borges's Ficciones or Labyrinths.

Lists can be great instruments of clarity: either by distilling something down to its essence, or (as in this one) by very clearly missing some crucial elements that jump out at the reader.

How about the Gormenghast trilogy?

>7 abbottthomas:

Great one! Though we could specify the first book, since it burned down (shudder).

The Book on Fire by Keith Miller is a fantasy where a book-loving thief, while trying to steal from the Library of Alexandia, encounters one of its librarians who was born from the library and is therefore part book herself. It's surreal, and essentially straight up book porn, but if you're into that kind of thing it's quite intense. I posted a bunch of quotes on the work page because I find the prose so beautiful.

The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga is a fun romance/late bloomer coming of age story where a woman ups and goes to Florence after the 1966 flood to offer her services as a book conservator. While it is very descriptive of Florence, the art and book conserving, it never gets bogged down in the details.

>9 macsbrains: Wow! Those quotes really voice how dedicated readers can be. Thanks for posting the quotes. I will keep my eye out for this one!

>10 manatree:

There's a sequel to that, The Italian Lover, which also is a sequel to his book, The Fall of a Sparrow

I really enjoyed Ink and Bone recently, where librarians have all the power ;)

Also Read The Invisible Library though I didn't enjoy that so much.