Top Books on Books

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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader 4.10 avg rating — 13,933 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,463 ratings
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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home 3.65 avg rating — 4,001 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,421 ratings
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The Uncommon Reader
The Uncommon Reader 3.73 avg rating — 58,250 ratings
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Literary Trivia: Fun and Games for Book Lovers
Literary Trivia: Fun and Games for Book Lovers 3.49 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Library at Night
The Library at Night 3.98 avg rating — 3,929 ratings
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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper 3.42 avg rating — 980 ratings
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Books
Books 3.22 avg rating — 2,245 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 3.84 avg rating — 120,599 ratings
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At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays 4.12 avg rating — 2,211 ratings
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Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus, #1)
Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 10,835 ratings
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Shelf Life: Stories by the Book
Shelf Life: Stories by the Book 3.54 avg rating — 603 ratings
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The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 29,986 ratings
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The Anthologist (The Paul Chowder Chronicles #1)
The Anthologist (The Paul Chowder Chronicles #1) 3.76 avg rating — 4,068 ratings
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Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World 3.94 avg rating — 1,689 ratings
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Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books 3.57 avg rating — 1,304 ratings
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The House of Paper
The House of Paper 3.74 avg rating — 9,286 ratings
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The Club Dumas
The Club Dumas 3.81 avg rating — 43,862 ratings
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Self-Publishing In the Eye of the Storm
Self-Publishing In the Eye of the Storm 4.62 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber 3.81 avg rating — 643 ratings
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At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf
At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf 4.18 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books
Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books 4.15 avg rating — 330 ratings
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The Haunted Bookshop
The Haunted Bookshop 3.61 avg rating — 5,980 ratings
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The Last Bookshop in London
The Last Bookshop in London 4.14 avg rating — 92,522 ratings
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Dear Fahrenheit 451
Dear Fahrenheit 451 3.76 avg rating — 11,056 ratings
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The Books in My Life
The Books in My Life 3.73 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Essays: A Selection
The Essays: A Selection 4.07 avg rating — 2,448 ratings
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The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading
The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading 3.67 avg rating — 725 ratings
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Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading 3.92 avg rating — 4,199 ratings
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines 3.59 avg rating — 33,005 ratings
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Wild Girls (PM's Outspoken Authors, #6)
Wild Girls (PM's Outspoken Authors, #6) 3.96 avg rating — 2,629 ratings
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Library looking-glass: A personal anthology
Library looking-glass: A personal anthology 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library
Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library 3.68 avg rating — 806 ratings
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Book Love
Book Love 4.29 avg rating — 21,973 ratings
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QPB Short History of the Paperback and Other Milestones in Publishing
QPB Short History of the Paperback and Other Milestones in Publishing 2.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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A Library Miscellany
A Library Miscellany 3.85 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Der geheime Bericht über den Dichter Goethe, der eine Prüfung auf einer arabischen Insel bestand
Der geheime Bericht über den Dichter Goethe, der eine Prüfung auf einer arabischen Insel bestand 3.78 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Books That Made the Difference: What People Told Us
Books That Made the Difference: What People Told Us 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Book Lovers' Miscellany
The Book Lovers' Miscellany 3.92 avg rating — 112 ratings
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A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children 4.47 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores
Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores 3.81 avg rating — 288 ratings
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Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen
Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen 3.74 avg rating — 917 ratings
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Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer: A Golden Treasury of Classic Treats
Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer: A Golden Treasury of Classic Treats 4.18 avg rating — 181 ratings
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The Libraries of Thought & Imagination: An Anthology of Books and Bookshelves (Pocketbooks (Series), 12.)
The Libraries of Thought & Imagination: An Anthology of Books and Bookshelves (Pocketbooks (Series), 12.) 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up 4.10 avg rating — 547 ratings
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Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore
Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore 3.53 avg rating — 563 ratings
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Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books 3.62 avg rating — 2,840 ratings
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Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany 4.32 avg rating — 5,480 ratings
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Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love 3.72 avg rating — 964 ratings
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The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard 3.68 avg rating — 745 ratings
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A Book of Books
A Book of Books 4.24 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Death Sentences: Stories of Deathly Books, Murderous Booksellers and Lethal Literature
Death Sentences: Stories of Deathly Books, Murderous Booksellers and Lethal Literature 3.69 avg rating — 577 ratings
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Checkpoint
Checkpoint 2.92 avg rating — 953 ratings
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Written Lives
Written Lives 3.81 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
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The Everlasting Story of Nory
The Everlasting Story of Nory 3.39 avg rating — 758 ratings
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Books
Books 3.19 avg rating — 140 ratings
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A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict
A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict 3.53 avg rating — 696 ratings
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Room Temperature
Room Temperature 3.69 avg rating — 1,139 ratings
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The Smithsonian Book of Books
The Smithsonian Book of Books 4.18 avg rating — 271 ratings
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U and I
U and I 3.76 avg rating — 977 ratings
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Buried in Books: A Reader's Anthology
Buried in Books: A Reader's Anthology 3.69 avg rating — 176 ratings
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House of Holes
House of Holes 3.10 avg rating — 2,751 ratings
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An Unnecessary Woman
An Unnecessary Woman 3.82 avg rating — 13,758 ratings
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A Box of Matches
A Box of Matches 3.69 avg rating — 2,652 ratings
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The Fermata
The Fermata 3.65 avg rating — 4,763 ratings
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Vox
Vox 3.44 avg rating — 6,364 ratings
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The Mezzanine
The Mezzanine 3.83 avg rating — 10,002 ratings
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A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict
A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict 3.53 avg rating — 696 ratings
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A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose
A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose 3.90 avg rating — 596 ratings
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The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature
The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature 3.95 avg rating — 937 ratings
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Bizarre Books
Bizarre Books 3.57 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books 3.46 avg rating — 1,995 ratings
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Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life 3.80 avg rating — 987 ratings
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A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books 3.53 avg rating — 1,364 ratings
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The Pleasure of the Text
The Pleasure of the Text really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,749 ratings
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Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction 3.75 avg rating — 362 ratings
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The Book on the Bookshelf
The Book on the Bookshelf 3.75 avg rating — 1,475 ratings
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason 3.77 avg rating — 3,647 ratings
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The Polysyllabic Spree
The Polysyllabic Spree 3.73 avg rating — 7,024 ratings
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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading 3.39 avg rating — 3,041 ratings