Books on Books: Bookmaking, Biblioclasm, Bibliophilia

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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,718,360 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose 4.14 avg rating — 387,235 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
84, Charing Cross Road 4.16 avg rating — 93,079 ratings
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,801,871 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 4.19 avg rating — 793,907 ratings
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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 — 696,617 ratings
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People of the Book
People of the Book 4.04 avg rating — 153,716 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 — 120,596 ratings
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Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 438,704 ratings
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader 4.10 avg rating — 13,931 ratings
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The Uncommon Reader
The Uncommon Reader 3.73 avg rating — 58,247 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 — 214,007 ratings
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Foucault’s Pendulum
Foucault’s Pendulum 3.91 avg rating — 73,671 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
The Thirteenth Tale 3.98 avg rating — 322,999 ratings
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The Library of Babel
The Library of Babel 4.31 avg rating — 11,356 ratings
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler 4.02 avg rating — 108,206 ratings
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The Club Dumas
The Club Dumas 3.81 avg rating — 43,860 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 — 178,421 ratings
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings 4.44 avg rating — 33,248 ratings
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 3.87 avg rating — 249,813 ratings
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books 4.04 avg rating — 2,254 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 Neverending Story
The Neverending Story 4.18 avg rating — 215,937 ratings
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A History of Reading
A History of Reading 3.99 avg rating — 5,411 ratings
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My Name Is Red
My Name Is Red 3.87 avg rating — 60,033 ratings
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The Historian
The Historian 3.80 avg rating — 273,561 ratings
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession 3.44 avg rating — 13,713 ratings
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The Library at Night
The Library at Night 3.98 avg rating — 3,929 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,386 ratings
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At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries 4.07 avg rating — 1,053 ratings
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The Incredible Book Eating Boy
The Incredible Book Eating Boy 4.30 avg rating — 7,814 ratings
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The Rule of Four
The Rule of Four 3.29 avg rating — 38,240 ratings
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A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books 3.76 avg rating — 1,416 ratings
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Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway, #1)
Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 9,362 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
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry 4.04 avg rating — 344,859 ratings
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Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops 3.74 avg rating — 30,072 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 — 138,458 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 — 57,765 ratings
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The Library: An Illustrated History
The Library: An Illustrated History 3.90 avg rating — 547 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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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages 3.87 avg rating — 3,559 ratings
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The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)
The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16) 4.15 avg rating — 6,196 ratings
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Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction
Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction
by: Tom Raabe
3.64 avg rating — 479 ratings
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The Bookshop
The Bookshop 3.27 avg rating — 25,954 ratings
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Salamander
Salamander 3.63 avg rating — 853 ratings
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The Illuminator (Illuminator, #1)
The Illuminator (Illuminator, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 6,577 ratings
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The Novel
The Novel 3.68 avg rating — 2,774 ratings
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History 3.82 avg rating — 2,828 ratings
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Unshelved (Unshelved, #1)
Unshelved (Unshelved, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 1,369 ratings
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God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible 3.78 avg rating — 2,086 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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The Dream of Scipio
The Dream of Scipio 3.76 avg rating — 4,459 ratings
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The Library
The Library 4.32 avg rating — 4,953 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 4.34 avg rating — 310,089 ratings
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The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World
The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World 3.38 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway, #2)
The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 4,506 ratings
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A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World 4.11 avg rating — 397 ratings
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Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the 21st Century
Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the 21st Century 3.93 avg rating — 599 ratings
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The Library Book
The Library Book 3.89 avg rating — 121,023 ratings
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Editions and Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat
Editions and Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat 4.19 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Classics for Pleasure
Classics for Pleasure 3.88 avg rating — 564 ratings
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Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy
Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy 4.06 avg rating — 469 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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The Starless Sea
The Starless Sea 3.84 avg rating — 227,395 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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Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading 3.92 avg rating — 4,198 ratings
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Books
Books 3.22 avg rating — 2,245 ratings
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Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World 3.93 avg rating — 386 ratings
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The Polysyllabic Spree
The Polysyllabic Spree 3.73 avg rating — 7,024 ratings
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The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4) 4.40 avg rating — 23,502 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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Amelia Unabridged
Amelia Unabridged 4.14 avg rating — 5,216 ratings
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The Secret of Lost Things
The Secret of Lost Things 3.12 avg rating — 4,136 ratings
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Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2) 4.13 avg rating — 55,637 ratings
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Among Others
Among Others
by: Jo Walton
3.71 avg rating — 25,522 ratings
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The House of Paper
The House of Paper 3.74 avg rating — 9,286 ratings
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Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius 4.30 avg rating — 2,000 ratings
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Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)
Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9) 3.91 avg rating — 12,407 ratings
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The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus, #2)
The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus, #2) 3.61 avg rating — 5,980 ratings
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The Logogryph: A Bibliography Of Imaginary Books
The Logogryph: A Bibliography Of Imaginary Books 3.91 avg rating — 204 ratings
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The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic 4.27 avg rating — 1,528 ratings
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Codex
Codex 3.04 avg rating — 8,714 ratings
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read 3.44 avg rating — 4,871 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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Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books
Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books 4.04 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
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The Bookseller of Kabul
The Bookseller of Kabul 3.77 avg rating — 56,000 ratings
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Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde
Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde 4.11 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Words in Deep Blue
Words in Deep Blue 3.98 avg rating — 40,501 ratings
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The Archivist
The Archivist 3.43 avg rating — 2,523 ratings
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Dear Fahrenheit 451
Dear Fahrenheit 451 3.76 avg rating — 11,056 ratings
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The Little Paris Bookshop
The Little Paris Bookshop 3.51 avg rating — 105,367 ratings
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Into the Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Books, Reading, and the World
Into the Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Books, Reading, and the World 3.87 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Bookmaking: Editing, Design, Production
Bookmaking: Editing, Design, Production 3.67 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Parnassus on Wheels
Parnassus on Wheels 4.04 avg rating — 10,835 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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The Floating Book
The Floating Book 3.43 avg rating — 541 ratings
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The Scholar-Adventurers
The Scholar-Adventurers 4.13 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Lost For Words
Lost For Words 4.01 avg rating — 25,184 ratings
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The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World
The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World 4.02 avg rating — 405 ratings
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