Books about libraries/librarians

Hi everyone

Can anyone recommend for me any novels that feature libraries or librarians in them?

Any genre (or none) is welcome

I will start the ball rolling with a few I already know about:

Terry Pratchett's Discworld books

Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian

Audrey Niffeneger's The Time Traveller's Wife and The Night Bookmobile

Garth Nix's Lirael

Any more ideas?

The wolf of winter by Paula Volsky (Fantasy)
Miss Quarterberry and the juniper tree by Melody Collins Thomason (Children's fantasy)
Among others by Jo Walton (Fantasy - kind of ...)
A discovery of witches by Deborah Harkness (Paranormal romance - I didn't like this book at all but others love it.)
Alphabet of thorn by Patricia McKillip (Fantasy)

I'm sure to think of others later.

Not a novel, just a short story: The Man Who Wanted To Smell Books by Elspeth Davie, in a library of the future.

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson. Made me laugh.

Books Can Be Deceiving is the first book in a mystery series that involves a librarian and her reading group. I enjoyed it. :)

Possession, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, The Rule of Four, The Thirteenth Tale

The body in the library by Agatha Christie!

Thanks for all the interesting suggestions, glad to see a good range of genres I will start looking these up at my local library :)

#7 zjakkelien - How could I forget this one!

I wonder if the cemetery of forgotten books (as featured in The Shadow of the Wind and sequels) would count as a library?

Libyrinth by Pearl North. There is another fantasy I read recently but I can't call it to mind right at the moment...
The Name of the Rose is a famous library piece.

Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines was a lot of fun.

If you accept Wolfy's suggestion in #9 then surely almost any of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books would qualify.

Thanks for more suggestions

11 reconditereader
The Name of the Rose is another brilliant one I had forgotten about! Thanks for reminding me

13 hfglen
I'm not sure I will have to look them up, it's books which specifically feature libraries and/or librarians that I'm looking for not just books that reference books and literature in them, would that apply to the Thursday Next books?

Dewey by Vicki Myron

If you extend "libraries" to "bookshops" (old-fashioned ones at least) :
Firmin by Sam Savage

14 Text Grand Central (name from memory) is, of course, the ultimate library, with every edition of every (fiction) book ever written.

The library / librarian aspects are the best part of the otherwise mediocre The Grand Complication, a mystery featuring a librarian from the New York Public Library.

I enjoyed Mr. Dixon Disappears which is part of the Mobile Library Mysteries series about a librarian who runs a bookmobile in Northern Ireland. I haven't tried the others.

You can also see the tag mash fiction, +librarian and the subject heading of the same. The tag mash for "fiction, +library" is less helpful since it's made up of a lot of fiction books people just got out of the library but there is a small list under that subject heading as well.

Was about to add a suggestion only to realise lucien (#17) beat me to it. Long time since I read it but think his comment is probably spot on - all I remember is the intra-library competition on mastery of Dewey and the mystery/crime element has slipped my mind completely. Edited to add I'm thinking of his first book.

You might also consider Dialogues of the Dead by Reginald Hill. Anything more than that much of the action involves the local library would be a major spoiler.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore has a subterranean library in New York City.

The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers and The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien are two which come to my mind having to do with private libraries.

Lots more lovely suggestions thanks everyone

19 hfglen - I haven't read any of the Dalziel and Pascoe novels so maybe this is the place to start :)

21 MrsLee - The Inheritance sounds particularly interesting, I will definitely look that one up.

I encountered a nice novella in a Kindle edition Bibliophile (L is for Librarian) by Tom Bruno for 99 cents. I found it really intriguing - a Librarian in Space! I know not everyone has a Kindle, but if you do, I can honestly recommend it.

Aurora Teagarden series, by Charlaine Harris

14KayEluned

I'm not sure I will have to look them up, it's books which specifically feature libraries and/or librarians that I'm looking for not just books that reference books and literature in them, would that apply to the Thursday Next books?

The Great Library (where copies of all books ever written or thought of in all worlds are kept) is an important part of the Thursday Next novel Lost in a Good Book.

26 bunwat - oh good, in that case I will add it to my list :)

Glad I could help. I will try to think of more library or librarian stories.

Not novels, but you may enjoy them anyway...

In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians, edited by Michael Cart

Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas

Touchstones seem to be not working for me today...

And now, they are!

There is a short 4-book series by Mel Odom that has a librarian sort of hobbit as a main character. The Rover is the first one.

Miller's The Book of Flying, featuring a questing librarian, and (unrelated) The Book on Fire, featuring a bibliothief trying to rob an impregnable library.

I enjoyed Lawrence Block's The Burglar in the Library, part of his Bernie Rhodenbarr series. Bernie is a burglar and bookseller in NYC.

@BookyVT

The Book on Fire sounds like a book we should have on the shelf! Don't you think?

And The Book of Flying....

Again thank you for all the good suggestions, they are going on the list. I'm particularly intrigued by the book of short stories WholeHouseLibrary suggested, sounds interesting.

Changeling by Delia Sherman

A fascinating non-fiction book about libraries is this one, The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel