Books on Books and Reading

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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 696,814 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,719,557 ratings
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Possession
Possession 3.90 avg rating — 83,131 ratings
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The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 178,464 ratings
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The Club Dumas
The Club Dumas 3.81 avg rating — 43,873 ratings
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 214,039 ratings
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The Uncommon Reader
The Uncommon Reader 3.73 avg rating — 58,268 ratings
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The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief #1)
The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief #1) 3.84 avg rating — 98,661 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 — 120,613 ratings
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The Reader
The Reader 3.78 avg rating — 226,259 ratings
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The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1)
The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 63,959 ratings
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The Library Book
The Library Book 3.89 avg rating — 121,047 ratings
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,634 ratings
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The Borrower
The Borrower 3.54 avg rating — 16,115 ratings
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Christopher Morley: Two Classic Novels in One Volume: Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop
Christopher Morley: Two Classic Novels in One Volume: Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop 4.01 avg rating — 203 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 — 4,002 ratings
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The Little Paris Bookshop
The Little Paris Bookshop 3.51 avg rating — 105,389 ratings
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The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters
The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters 3.99 avg rating — 374 ratings
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Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris, #1)
Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 13,008 ratings
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The Historian
The Historian 3.80 avg rating — 273,597 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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The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time
The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time 3.55 avg rating — 1,385 ratings
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The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future 3.35 avg rating — 940 ratings
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Among Others
Among Others
by: Jo Walton
3.71 avg rating — 25,530 ratings
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First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen
First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen 3.64 avg rating — 6,614 ratings
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A History of Reading
A History of Reading 3.99 avg rating — 5,412 ratings
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The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)
The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 27,601 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 — 138,481 ratings
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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age 3.67 avg rating — 2,305 ratings
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Book Lover
Book Lover 2.98 avg rating — 1,655 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 — 29,990 ratings
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Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)
Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 31,644 ratings
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Dear Fahrenheit 451
Dear Fahrenheit 451 3.76 avg rating — 11,058 ratings
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Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote 4.04 avg rating — 506 ratings
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Scientifica Historica: How the world's great science books chart the history of knowledge
Scientifica Historica: How the world's great science books chart the history of knowledge 4.11 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures
The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures 4.07 avg rating — 1,270 ratings
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The Word Exchange
The Word Exchange 3.35 avg rating — 4,233 ratings
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The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, From Egypt to E-Book
The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, From Egypt to E-Book 3.83 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Bizarre Books
Bizarre Books 3.57 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History
Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History 4.24 avg rating — 576 ratings
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Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World 3.86 avg rating — 1,077 ratings
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Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books
Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books 3.40 avg rating — 525 ratings
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Hearts in Atlantis
Hearts in Atlantis 3.86 avg rating — 100,979 ratings
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The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep 3.98 avg rating — 7,117 ratings
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Reading Comics: 24 Vintage Postcards Depicting America's 2nd Favorite Preoccupation
Reading Comics: 24 Vintage Postcards Depicting America's 2nd Favorite Preoccupation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Dat weet ik zelf niet : Jonge mensen in boek en verhaal
Dat weet ik zelf niet : Jonge mensen in boek en verhaal 3.38 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 3.99 avg rating — 89 ratings
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De verrekijker
De verrekijker 3.07 avg rating — 854 ratings
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Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry
Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry 3.58 avg rating — 55 ratings
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De perfecte puber
De perfecte puber really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Fly by Night
Fly by Night 3.78 avg rating — 7,541 ratings
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De Ideale Bibliotheek : 100 boeken die iedereen gelezen moet hebben
De Ideale Bibliotheek : 100 boeken die iedereen gelezen moet hebben
by: Jan Croes
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now
Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now 3.60 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Reading Comics
Reading Comics 3.73 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life 3.51 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Stoker's Manuscript
Stoker's Manuscript 3.49 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
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Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell
Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell 3.94 avg rating — 579 ratings
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult 3.75 avg rating — 1,891 ratings
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A Little House Reader
A Little House Reader 4.13 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions 3.89 avg rating — 2,488 ratings
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain 3.85 avg rating — 8,023 ratings
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The Book of Speculation
The Book of Speculation 3.61 avg rating — 38,586 ratings
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ABC of Reading
ABC of Reading 3.91 avg rating — 1,894 ratings
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Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books
Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books 3.60 avg rating — 712 ratings
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The Year of Reading Dangerously
The Year of Reading Dangerously 3.32 avg rating — 6,187 ratings
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The Camel Bookmobile
The Camel Bookmobile 3.38 avg rating — 2,424 ratings
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All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age 3.76 avg rating — 1,931 ratings
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Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Impact on American Culture
Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Impact on American Culture 3.70 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Library Book
The Library Book 3.76 avg rating — 1,455 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 — 3,648 ratings
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Little House Country: A Photo Guide to the Home Sites of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House Country: A Photo Guide to the Home Sites of Laura Ingalls Wilder 4.36 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Public Library: A Photographic Essay
The Public Library: A Photographic Essay 4.18 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
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Americus
Americus
by: M.K. Reed
3.81 avg rating — 2,293 ratings
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 57,771 ratings
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Country: The People and Places in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Life and books
Laura Ingalls Wilder Country: The People and Places in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Life and books 4.25 avg rating — 682 ratings
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Phantoms on the Bookshelves
Phantoms on the Bookshelves 3.63 avg rating — 997 ratings
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The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books
The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books 4.03 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
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The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 3.75 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Mark Twain's Literary Resources: A Reconstruction of His Library and Reading (Volume One)
Mark Twain's Literary Resources: A Reconstruction of His Library and Reading (Volume One) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Land of Laura: De Smet, South Dakota: Insider Travel Guide to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Towns
Land of Laura: De Smet, South Dakota: Insider Travel Guide to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Towns really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)
Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2) 4.03 avg rating — 14,756 ratings
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My Reading Life
My Reading Life 3.95 avg rating — 8,190 ratings
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Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture
Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture 3.77 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books
Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books 3.68 avg rating — 952 ratings
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Country: The People and Places in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Life and Books
Laura Ingalls Wilder Country: The People and Places in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Life and Books 4.25 avg rating — 682 ratings
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The Librarian
The Librarian 3.37 avg rating — 6,459 ratings
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Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas 3.88 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography 4.07 avg rating — 8,479 ratings
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Public Library and Other Stories
Public Library and Other Stories
by: Ali Smith
3.52 avg rating — 5,133 ratings
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Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books 3.91 avg rating — 432 ratings
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder 3.94 avg rating — 19,455 ratings
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The Bookshop
The Bookshop 3.27 avg rating — 25,959 ratings
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The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography
The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography 4.23 avg rating — 534 ratings
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A Wilder Rose: Rose Wilder Lane, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Their Little Houses
A Wilder Rose: Rose Wilder Lane, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Their Little Houses 3.63 avg rating — 3,456 ratings
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Korean War Comic Books
Korean War Comic Books really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World 3.41 avg rating — 7,422 ratings
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The Book Lovers' Miscellany
The Book Lovers' Miscellany 3.92 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Reading on Location: Great Books Set in Top Travel Destinations
Reading on Location: Great Books Set in Top Travel Destinations 3.54 avg rating — 39 ratings
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading 3.40 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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The Penguin Classics Book
The Penguin Classics Book 4.49 avg rating — 297 ratings
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