Books about Books
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Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
by:
Jeremy Mercer
3.86 avg rating β 4,187 ratings 205. 
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
by:
Ray Bradbury
4.08 avg rating β 20,955 ratings 
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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
by:
Aaron Lansky
4.25 avg rating β 2,213 ratings 212. 
The Great Books: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature
by:
Anthony O'Hear
3.78 avg rating β 50 ratings 213. 
Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books
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Nick Hornby
4.04 avg rating β 1,424 ratings 
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The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book
by:
Wendy Welch
3.71 avg rating β 3,251 ratings 217. 
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
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Avi Steinberg
3.51 avg rating β 4,309 ratings 218. 
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission
by:
Michael Ondaatje
3.69 avg rating β 124 ratings 219. 
Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages
by:
Michael Popek
3.56 avg rating β 1,231 ratings 220. 
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A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
by:
Alberto Manguel
3.53 avg rating β 1,364 ratings 
224. 
Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English Since 1939
by:
Anthony Burgess
3.81 avg rating β 268 ratings 
225. 
The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
by:
Owen Gingerich
3.78 avg rating β 613 ratings 225. 
The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
by:
Shaun Bythell
3.72 avg rating β 29,986 ratings 228. 
Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education
by:
Michael Dirda
4.26 avg rating β 314 ratings 
230. 
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
by:
Neil Gaiman
3.96 avg rating β 16,341 ratings 
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The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through The Great Books
by:
Bruce Meyer
4.10 avg rating β 51 ratings 
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501 Great Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of Literature
by:
Julian Patrick
3.94 avg rating β 159 ratings 
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Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
by:
Annie Spence
3.76 avg rating β 11,058 ratings 
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Reading and Writing (Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Vol 13)
by:
Robertson Davies
4.13 avg rating β 60 ratings 248. 
The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World
by:
Paul Collins
4.02 avg rating β 405 ratings 
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The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
by:
John Gardner
3.99 avg rating β 6,231 ratings 
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Women Who Love Books Too Much: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings & Prolific Pens from the Algonquin Hotel to the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
by:
Brenda Knight
3.57 avg rating β 248 ratings 
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A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
by:
Elaine Showalter
4.10 avg rating β 326 ratings 
269. 
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
by:
Anne Fadiman
3.72 avg rating β 964 ratings 
271. 
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
by:
Leah Price
3.40 avg rating β 1,253 ratings 
276. 
The Virgin in the Garden (The Frederica Quartet, #1)
by:
A.S. Byatt
3.72 avg rating β 3,609 ratings 
279. 
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
by:
Alice Ozma
3.67 avg rating β 6,776 ratings 279. 
The Modern Library : The Two Hundred Best Novels in English Since 1950
by:
Carmen Callil
3.55 avg rating β 153 ratings 
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The Book Club Bible: The Definitive Guide That Every Book Club Member Needs
by:
Michael O'Mara
3.38 avg rating β 68 ratings 
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What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction & Fantasy
by:
Jo Walton
3.89 avg rating β 1,100 ratings 287. 
The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People
by:
Bethanne Patrick
3.61 avg rating β 584 ratings 288. 
Books of the Century: A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas, and Literature
by:
Philip F. Turner
3.91 avg rating β 68 ratings 288. 
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
by:
Charles Yu
3.44 avg rating β 19,834 ratings 288. 
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
by:
Gina Sheridan
3.73 avg rating β 9,428 ratings 
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A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter 3.84 avg rating β 4,024 ratings
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How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
by:
Thomas C. Foster
3.64 avg rating β 2,321 ratings 
