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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

by Anne Fadiman

4,385 members

207 reviews

4.2

9 Members: guyalice, europhile, honotoko, merrystar, nessreader, JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, briarhills, lisacmiller

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84, Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff

5,519 members

332 reviews

4.2

7 Members: europhile, merrystar, nessreader, JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, ahef1963, cwbol

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by Anne Fadiman

652 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

8 Members: europhile, honotoko, merrystar, nessreader, JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, briarhills, cwbol

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Parnassus on Wheels

by Christopher Morley

1,680 members

104 reviews

4

7 Members: JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, electrice, ahef1963, cwbol, jhicks62, ManWithAnAgenda

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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books

by Nicholas A. Basbanes

3,112 members

36 reviews

4.1

7 Members: guyalice, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, briarhills, cwbol, dianeham

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A History of Reading

by Alberto Manguel

3,626 members

52 reviews

4.1

6 Members: europhile, nessreader, jordantaylor, briarhills, Dilara86, cwbol

7

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

5,523 members

556 reviews

3.9

5 Members: nessreader, JaneAustenNut, briarhills, electrice, ManWithAnAgenda

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Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World

by Lawrence Goldstone

1,119 members

32 reviews

3.9

5 Members: guyalice, honotoko, jordantaylor, cwbol, lisacmiller

9

The Library at Night

by Alberto Manguel

2,535 members

66 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, briarhills, electrice, cwbol

10

The Book on the Bookshelf

by Henry Petroski

2,469 members

41 reviews

3.8

5 Members: guyalice, nessreader, JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, cwbol

11

Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore

by Lawrence Goldstone

738 members

10 reviews

4

5 Members: honotoko, JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, cwbol, lisacmiller

12

So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

1,408 members

78 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, briarhills, lisacmiller, dianeham

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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

by Lewis Buzbee

1,282 members

68 reviews

3.9

5 Members: honotoko, JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, briarhills, cwbol

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The Haunted Bookshop

by Christopher Morley

1,944 members

91 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, ahef1963, cwbol

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by Paul Collins

1,298 members

56 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: jordantaylor, cwbol, lisacmiller, dianeham

16

A Passion For Books

by Harold Rabinowitz

1,640 members

18 reviews

3.8

5 Members: JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, briarhills, cwbol, dianeham

17

Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

2,563 members

59 reviews

4

4 Members: JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, dianeham, ManWithAnAgenda

18

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

by Peter Boxall

2,466 members

79 reviews

3.9

4 Members: JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, cwbol, dianeham

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An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland

by Michael Dirda

297 members

8 reviews

3.8

3 Members: uath, honotoko, JaneAustenNut

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Howards End is on the Landing

1,074 members

75 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: europhile, nessreader, jordantaylor, briarhills

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Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture

by Nicholas A. Basbanes

1,378 members

9 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, cwbol

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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

by Allison Hoover Bartlett

2,525 members

174 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: dara85, JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, cwbol

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At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries

by Estelle Ellis

1,350 members

22 reviews

4.1

4 Members: JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, cwbol, dianeham

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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

by Harold Bloom

2,819 members

16 reviews

3.8

3 Members: JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, cwbol

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Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life

by Michael Dirda

656 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, briarhills, cwbol

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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

by Pierre Bayard

1,446 members

83 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: jordantaylor, JuliaMaria, dianeham

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Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction

884 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: europhile, jordantaylor, jhicks62

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The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

26,480 members

1,007 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, cwbol, ManWithAnAgenda

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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

12,451 members

274 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: guyalice, jordantaylor, dianeham

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by Ray Bradbury

49,804 members

933 reviews

4

3 Members: guyalice, cwbol, ManWithAnAgenda

31

A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict

863 members

19 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: guyalice, jordantaylor, cwbol

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Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World

by Nicholas A. Basbanes

787 members

7 reviews

4.1

3 Members: JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, cwbol

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by John Dunning

1,898 members

64 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, cwbol

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by Penelope Fitzgerald

2,603 members

141 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: DellaWanna, JaneAustenNut

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A Degree of Mastery: A Journey through Book Arts Apprenticeship

by Annie Tremmel Wilcox

298 members

7 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, cwbol

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Warmly Inscribed: The New England Forger and Other Book Tales

by Lawrence Goldstone

434 members

9 reviews

3.8

3 Members: honotoko, jordantaylor, cwbol

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Among the Gently Mad: Perspectives and Strategies for the Book Hunter in the Twenty-first Century

by Nicholas A. Basbanes

945 members

16 reviews

3.9

3 Members: JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, cwbol

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A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

by Nicholas A. Basbanes

1,010 members

6 reviews

4.1

3 Members: JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor, cwbol

39

The Book-Hunter in London : Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting

by William Roberts

20 members

1 review

½ 4.5

2 Members: uath, jordantaylor

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Aspects of the Novel

by E. M. Forster

2,158 members

37 reviews

3.8

2 Members: nessreader, jordantaylor

41

The Bookman's Wake

by John Dunning

1,716 members

34 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, cwbol

42

Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments

by Michael Dirda

394 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: honotoko, cwbol

43

Books: A Memoir

by Larry McMurtry

1,068 members

49 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: jordantaylor, lisacmiller

44

The Library of Shadows

by Mikkel Birkegaard

847 members

45 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: jordantaylor, dianeham

45

More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

1,280 members

22 reviews

4

2 Members: jordantaylor, dianeham

46

The Bookshop Book

by Jen Campbell

492 members

15 reviews

4.1

2 Members: briarhills, cwbol

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The Child That Books Built

by Francis Spufford

888 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: nessreader, briarhills

48

My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop

518 members

15 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jordantaylor, cwbol

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Biblioteket i Babel : en antologi sammanställd ur novellsamlingarna Ficciones och El Aleph

by Jorge Luis Borges

111 members

2 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, jordantaylor

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A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen

by Susannah Carson

346 members

18 reviews

3.9

2 Members: JaneAustenNut, briarhills

51

Lost in a Good Book

by Jasper Fforde

9,000 members

234 reviews

4.1

2 Members: JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor

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The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life

592 members

36 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: nessreader

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The Pooh Perplex

by Frederick C. Crews

577 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading

by Michael Dorris

133 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: honotoko

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How to Read a Novelist

by John Freeman

103 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: dianeham

56

The Polysyllabic Spree

2,071 members

67 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: nessreader, jordantaylor

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The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder

by Erin Blakemore

311 members

23 reviews

3.9

2 Members: JaneAustenNut, dianeham

58

Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books

by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

796 members

24 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: jordantaylor, briarhills

59

A Reader on Reading

by Alberto Manguel

479 members

10 reviews

4

2 Members: briarhills, cwbol

60

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

by Maureen Corrigan

992 members

32 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: jordantaylor, briarhills

61

At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays

by Anne Fadiman

894 members

32 reviews

4.1

2 Members: briarhills, cwbol

62

How Reading Changed My Life

by Anna Quindlen

965 members

27 reviews

3.8

2 Members: briarhills, cwbol

63

Reflections: On the Magic of Writing

by Diana Wynne Jones

273 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: briarhills

64

Liebesnähe. Roman

by Hanns-Josef Ortheil

21 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: JuliaMaria

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ABC for Book Collectors

1,121 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: jordantaylor, cwbol

66

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

by Thomas C. Foster

4,100 members

85 reviews

3.9

2 Members: JaneAustenNut, jordantaylor

67

How to Read a Book, Revised and Updated Edition

by Mortimer J. Adler

7,045 members

74 reviews

4

2 Members: jordantaylor, cwbol

68

The Anatomy of Bibliomania

by Holbrook Jackson

554 members

2 reviews

3.9

2 Members: jordantaylor, cwbol

69

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

16,642 members

891 reviews

4

Member: dara85

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by Candida Höfer

432 members

7 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: JuliaMaria

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Camino Island: A Novel

by John Grisham

2,510 members

113 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

72

839 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: JuliaMaria

73

The Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde

15,353 members

587 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

by Kim Michele Richardson

2,172 members

167 reviews

4

Member: dara85

75

J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century

1,106 members

12 reviews

4.2

Member: briarhills

76

Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers

537 members

32 reviews

4

Member: dianeham

77

The Unwritten Vol. 01: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity

1,251 members

62 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

78

The Book Woman's Daughter

by Kim Michele Richardson

443 members

31 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

79

The Library Book

by Susan Orlean

4,216 members

251 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

80

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

by Nina Sankovitch

726 members

55 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dianeham

81

The Unwritten Vol. 02: Inside Man

632 members

28 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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The Unwritten Vol. 03: Dead Man's Knock

475 members

27 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon

by Melissa Anelli

967 members

43 reviews

3.9

Member: briarhills

84

The Unwritten Vol. 04: Leviathan

392 members

23 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide

by Erica Bauermeister

333 members

8 reviews

4

Member: dianeham

86

1,752 members

119 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

One for the Books

443 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: honotoko

88

1001 Books for Every Mood

by Hallie Ephron

261 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: dianeham

89

The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950

by Carmen Callil

277 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dianeham

90

Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps

by Michael Bronski

194 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission

by Michael Ondaatje

295 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

by Grady Hendrix

715 members

41 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read

by Howard Mittelmark

245 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: dianeham

94

Sin-a-rama : sleaze sex paperbacks of the sixties

110 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

Dope menace : the sensational world of drug paperbacks, 1900-1975

by Stephen J. Gertz

39 members

1 review

3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

A Few Good Books: Using Contemporary Readers' Advisory Strategies to Connect Readers with Books

by Stephanie L. Maatta

33 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dianeham

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A Reading Diary: A Year of Favourite Books

by Alberto Manguel

701 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: briarhills

98

Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoir

by Rick Gekoski

104 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: briarhills

99

Library: An Unquiet History

by Matthew Battles

2,047 members

44 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: jordantaylor

100

How to Read and Why

by Harold Bloom

2,724 members

31 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: jordantaylor

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