Books about Books
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Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion 3.89 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers
by:
James W. Hall
3.52 avg rating — 435 ratings 414. 
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination 4.21 avg rating — 4,063 ratings
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Books Can Be Deceiving (Library Lover's Mystery, #1)
by:
Jenn McKinlay
3.84 avg rating — 12,366 ratings 
418. 
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)
by:
Jasper Fforde
3.98 avg rating — 19,972 ratings 
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Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
by:
David Denby
3.86 avg rating — 1,077 ratings 418. 
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
by:
Edmund Wilson
4.09 avg rating — 282 ratings 
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The "Big Read": Book of Books (Big Read 2003)
by:
Nicky Munro
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 88 ratings 429. 
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by:
Elizabeth Wein
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 125,862 ratings 
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Book, Line and Sinker (Library Lover's Mystery, #3)
by:
Jenn McKinlay
3.95 avg rating — 6,519 ratings 
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The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
by:
Reviel Netz
3.90 avg rating — 707 ratings 438. 
Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World 4.11 avg rating — 915 ratings
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The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
by:
Steven Moore
4.16 avg rating — 147 ratings 441. 
Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers
by:
Nancy Pearl
3.75 avg rating — 890 ratings 
441. 
So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
by:
Gabriel Zaid
3.72 avg rating — 1,189 ratings 444. 
The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
by:
Laura Miller
3.81 avg rating — 1,143 ratings 
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Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
by:
Craig Fehrman
4.04 avg rating — 506 ratings 450. 
Book Crush: For Kids and Teens--Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest
by:
Nancy Pearl
3.97 avg rating — 667 ratings 
450. 
The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library (Haunted Bookshop Mystery, #3)
by:
Alice Kimberly
3.97 avg rating — 2,871 ratings 
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Words Into Pictures: E. E. Cummings' Art Across Borders
by:
Zeno Vernyik
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
463. 
Flirting with Pride and Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece
by:
Jennifer Crusie
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 775 ratings 
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The Anthologist (The Paul Chowder Chronicles #1)
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Nicholson Baker
3.76 avg rating — 4,069 ratings 467. 
Murder by the Book (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery, #1)
by:
Lauren Elliott
3.67 avg rating — 13,759 ratings 467. 
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Death Sentences: Stories of Deathly Books, Murderous Booksellers and Lethal Literature
by:
Otto Penzler
3.69 avg rating — 577 ratings 
475. 
Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century
by:
John Crace
3.39 avg rating — 95 ratings 475. 
BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
by:
John Palfrey
3.42 avg rating — 936 ratings 
479. 
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
by:
Michael Chabon
3.69 avg rating — 4,269 ratings 
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The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature
by:
Clifton Fadiman
3.95 avg rating — 937 ratings 483. 
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by:
Simon Singh
4.30 avg rating — 28,489 ratings 
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Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits
by:
Jack Murnighan
3.60 avg rating — 657 ratings 
