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Is it any surprise that booksellers are obsessed with books? Using Twitter, my bookselling friends and I rapid-fired off this list of our favorite books about books. Thanks to @readandbreathe, @RichRennicks, and @bookavore for the great suggestions!
Essential Reading - Books About Books
- If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
- Reading in Bed by Steven Gilbar
- Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
- Women Who Read Are Dangerous by Stefan Bollmann and Karen Joy Fowler
- A Reading Life by Alberto Manguel
- Living with Books by Alan Powers
- On the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
- 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Dante Club (and others) by Matthew Pearl
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- On Reading by André Kertész
- Possession by A.S. Byatt
- Ex Libris by Ann Fadiman
- A Gentle Madness by Nicholas A. Basbanes
- Sixpence House by Paul Collins
- Patience and Fortitude by Nicholas A. Basbanes
- A Book of Books by Abelardo Morell and Nicholson Baker
- The King's English by Betsy Burton
- So Many Books by Gabriel Zaid
- Booked to Die by John Dunning
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- The Company They Kept by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein
- Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer
- The Whole Five Feet by Christopher Beha
- Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and Lucia Graves
Posted by: Inkwell Michelle
