Books About Books

Books about: other books, literacy in general, writers, bookstores, literary culture. Usually non-fiction, but can be fiction as long as books are a central plot theme.


The Time Hop Coffee Shop
The Bodyguard Affair
The Library of Fates
All My Bones (An Old Juniper Bookshop Mystery, #2)
The Award
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
How to Grieve Like a Victorian: A funny, heartwarming love story
An Academic Affair
The Burning Library
The Forget-Me-Not Library
The Bookshop Below
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen's Unsung Characters
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
The Ghostwriter
An Academic Affair
By Any Other Name
The Secret Christmas Library
The Secret Book Society
Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #2)
The Book of Lost Hours
Any Trope but You
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
The Book Club Hotel
The Quiet Librarian
Marble Hall Murders (Susan Ryeland, #3)
Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay
Book Lust by Nancy PearlWhen Books Went to War by Molly Guptill ManningHowards End Is on the Landing by Susan         HillThe Novel Cure by Ella BerthoudEx Libris by Anne Fadiman
Books Recommending Books
149 books — 44 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldMatilda by Roald Dahl
Best Books About Loving Books
374 books — 514 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyMatilda by Roald DahlThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Books about Books
1,384 books — 1,519 voters
Matilda by Roald DahlBecause of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilloEscape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris GrabensteinFangirl by Rainbow RowellThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
MG & YA Books about Libraries & Books
242 books — 60 voters

On Reading Well by Karen Swallow PriorLit! by Tony ReinkeReading for Preaching by Cornelius Plantinga Jr.Reading the Christian Spiritual Classics by Jamin GogginSpiritual Classics by Richard J. Foster
Christian Books About Books
32 books — 12 voters
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel FrederickThe Reading Group by Elizabeth NoblePies & Prejudice by Heather Vogel FrederickThe Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
Book Clubs in Fiction
125 books — 37 voters

The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Book Thief
84, Charing Cross Road
The Library Book
The Thirteenth Tale
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Fahrenheit 451
The Reading List
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Book Lovers
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief, #1)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

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Sohn Won-Pyung
a bookstore is a place densely populated with tens of thousands of authors, dead or living, residing side by side. But books are quiet. They remain dead silent until somebody flips open a page. Only then so they spill out their stories, calmly and thoroughly, just enough at a time for me to handle.
Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

Anaik Alcasas
An idea packaged up in nonfiction is a completely different animal to an idea packaged up in fiction. And while the lines blur in that hybrid creature called narrative nonfiction, we should be under no illusions that they’re the same animal.
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