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Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature
by John McMurtrie
56 members
3 reviews
4.2
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Library (First Step Nonfiction: Community Buildings)
by Sheila Anderson
26 members
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The Library Card
by Jerry Spinelli
2,639 members
27 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
by Sara B. Franklin
140 members
4 reviews
4.2
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Radical Chapters: Pacifist Bookseller Roy Kepler and the Paperback Revolution
by Michael Doyle
20 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
by H. R. F. Keating
93 members
2 reviews
3.8
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The Book of Forgotten Authors
by Christopher Fowler
224 members
14 reviews
4
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Book Towns: Forty Five Paradises of the Printed Word
by Alex Johnson
176 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread
by Harold Bloom
174 members
2 reviews
3.9
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The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects
by Deborah Lutz
182 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
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Browse: The World in Bookshops
by Henry Hitchings
215 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Clothing of Books
by Jhumpa Lahiri
307 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Diary of a Bookseller
by Shaun Bythell
1,905 members
86 reviews
3.8
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Confessions of a Bookseller
by Shaun Bythell
747 members
28 reviews
4
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Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
by Shaun Bythell
527 members
30 reviews
½ 3.5
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Ex Libris: 100 Books to Read and Reread
by Michiko Kakutani
671 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
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How to Find Love in a Bookshop
by Veronica Henry
997 members
61 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing
by Arnold Weinstein
40 members
½ 4.3
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Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945
by Kurt Vonnegut
51 members
1 review
3
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My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop
by Ronald Rice
621 members
16 reviews
3.8
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This Is What a Librarian Looks Like
by Kyle Cassidy
186 members
12 reviews
4.1
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Orwell's Roses
by Rebecca Solnit
603 members
18 reviews
4.1
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My Emily Dickinson
by Susan Howe
324 members
2 reviews
3.9
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A Clip of Steel: A Picaresque Autobiography
by Thomas Blackburn
6 members
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The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
by Keith Houston
831 members
17 reviews
4.1
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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
by Hwang Bo-reum
1,291 members
48 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Librarians of Lisbon: A WWII Story of Love and Espionage
by Suzanne Nelson
107 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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E. M. Forster
by Jeremy Tambling
3 members
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Didion and Babitz
by Lili Anolik
228 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
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Alice's Oxford: People and Places that Inspired Wonderland
by Peter Hunt
9 members
1 review
4
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The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews
by Adam Biles
39 members
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The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
by Laura Miller
490 members
36 reviews
3.9
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton
3,657 members
60 reviews
½ 3.7
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Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
by Michael Gorra
173 members
3 reviews
4.2
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To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
by Olivia Laing
378 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
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U and I: A True Story
by Nicholson Baker
567 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
by Elif Batuman
1,240 members
52 reviews
½ 3.7
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How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
by Sarah Bakewell
2,246 members
90 reviews
4.1
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Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer (August 07,2003)
3 members
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
by Phyllis Rose
786 members
11 reviews
4
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The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts
by Mary Wellesley
317 members
6 reviews
3.9
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The Bookseller of Florence
by Ross King
776 members
16 reviews
4.1
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
by Leah Price
287 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
by Dennis Duncan
1,024 members
36 reviews
3.8
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The Library Book
by Susan Orlean
6,036 members
315 reviews
4.1
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Remainders of the Day: A Bookshop Diary
by Shaun Bythell
259 members
13 reviews
4
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The Cat Who Saved Books
by Sōsuke Natsukawa
2,260 members
94 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Cat Who Saved the Library
by Sōsuke Natsukawa
375 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Underground Library
by Jennifer Ryan
334 members
32 reviews
4
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
by James Patterson
570 members
34 reviews
3.8
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The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
by Evan Friss
819 members
21 reviews
4.1
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The Bookbinder of Jericho
by Pip Williams
1,083 members
57 reviews
4
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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
by Azar Nafisi
219 members
8 reviews
4
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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
by Mark Dawidziak
500 members
14 reviews
3.8
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Her Lost Words
by Stephanie Marie Thornton
81 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
by Rachelle Bergstein
98 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading
by Andrew Pettegree
139 members
1 review
4
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The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life
by Clare Carlisle
94 members
½ 4.4
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Edith Holler
by Edward Carey
105 members
3 reviews
4.2
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Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly
by Kenneth C. Davis
143 members
5 reviews
4
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But Have You Read the Book? 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films
by Kristen Lopez
98 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
by Kirsten Miller
813 members
61 reviews
4
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The Library of Lost Dollhouses: A Novel
by Elise Hooper
191 members
8 reviews
3.8
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The Booklover's Library
by Madeline Martin
485 members
27 reviews
3.9
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Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
by Hwang Bo-reum
224 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures
by Library of Congress
737 members
32 reviews
4.1
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