Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading

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Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words
Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words
by: John Man
3.69 avg rating — 391 ratings
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Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World 3.61 avg rating — 302 ratings
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Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 400 ratings
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A Natural History of the Romance Novel
A Natural History of the Romance Novel 3.75 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré 4.42 avg rating — 2,963 ratings
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Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels
Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels 3.94 avg rating — 1,656 ratings
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Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World's Most Unusual Libraries
Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World's Most Unusual Libraries 4.04 avg rating — 566 ratings
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Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library 3.53 avg rating — 2,805 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 — 19,447 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 Heart Has Its Reasons: Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004 (Studies in Young Adult Literature, 18) (Volume 18)
The Heart Has Its Reasons: Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004 (Studies in Young Adult Literature, 18) (Volume 18) 3.96 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World 4.23 avg rating — 3,986 ratings
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Public Library and Other Stories
Public Library and Other Stories
by: Ali Smith
3.52 avg rating — 5,131 ratings
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The Readers' Choice: 200 Book Club Favorites
The Readers' Choice: 200 Book Club Favorites 3.37 avg rating — 70 ratings
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A Reader's Guide To Science Fiction
A Reader's Guide To Science Fiction 3.97 avg rating — 76 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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The End of Your Life Book Club
The End of Your Life Book Club 3.81 avg rating — 55,524 ratings
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How Novels Work
How Novels Work 3.72 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Right Book, Right Time: 500 Great Reads for Teenagers
Right Book, Right Time: 500 Great Reads for Teenagers 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Pooh Perplex
The Pooh Perplex 3.98 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Do You Read Me? Bookstores Around the World
Do You Read Me? Bookstores Around the World 4.32 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books
Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books 3.23 avg rating — 711 ratings
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My Life in Middlemarch
My Life in Middlemarch 3.64 avg rating — 4,147 ratings
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The Nag Hammadi Library
The Nag Hammadi Library 4.21 avg rating — 3,796 ratings
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I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers
I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers 3.56 avg rating — 1,922 ratings
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Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms
Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms 3.63 avg rating — 323 ratings
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Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of "To Kill a Mockingbird" 3.78 avg rating — 1,238 ratings
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Storybook Travels: From Eloise's New York to Harry Potter's London, Visits to 30 of the Best-Loved Landmarks in Children's Literature
Storybook Travels: From Eloise's New York to Harry Potter's London, Visits to 30 of the Best-Loved Landmarks in Children's Literature 3.70 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries 4.19 avg rating — 9,044 ratings
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An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000
An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000
by: Jo Walton
3.94 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops 3.47 avg rating — 6,798 ratings
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Understanding Poetry
Understanding Poetry 4.08 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher
Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Raising a Reader: A Mother's Tale of Desperation and Delight
Raising a Reader: A Mother's Tale of Desperation and Delight 3.68 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Bizarre Books
Bizarre Books 3.57 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Living by Fiction
Living by Fiction 3.95 avg rating — 1,018 ratings
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Mimesis: de weergave van de werkelijkheid in de westerse literatuur
Mimesis: de weergave van de werkelijkheid in de westerse literatuur 4.29 avg rating — 3,679 ratings
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How to Suppress Women's Writing
How to Suppress Women's Writing 4.28 avg rating — 2,736 ratings
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An Experiment in Criticism
An Experiment in Criticism 4.21 avg rating — 3,222 ratings
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Now Read This: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 1978-1998 (Genreflecting Advisory Series)
Now Read This: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 1978-1998 (Genreflecting Advisory Series) 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Appendix N
Appendix N 3.62 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Literature after Feminism
Literature after Feminism 3.97 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Bookseller of Kabul
The Bookseller of Kabul 3.77 avg rating — 56,002 ratings
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore 4.46 avg rating — 13,988 ratings
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The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy
The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy 4.18 avg rating — 299 ratings
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The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot
The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature 3.71 avg rating — 361 ratings
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The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses 4.33 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
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Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books 3.63 avg rating — 1,291 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 72,715 ratings
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My Poets
My Poets 3.92 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Under the Covers and between the Sheets: Facts and Trivia about the World's Greatest Books
Under the Covers and between the Sheets: Facts and Trivia about the World's Greatest Books 3.61 avg rating — 247 ratings
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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic 4.26 avg rating — 6,189 ratings
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The Book Club Bible: The Definitive Guide That Every Book Club Member Needs
The Book Club Bible: The Definitive Guide That Every Book Club Member Needs 3.38 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Too Far Everywhere: The Romantic Heroine in Nineteenth-Century Australia
Too Far Everywhere: The Romantic Heroine in Nineteenth-Century Australia liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Life of the Drama
The Life of the Drama 4.10 avg rating — 73 ratings
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A Short History of English Literature
A Short History of English Literature 3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings
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From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books
From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books 3.92 avg rating — 954 ratings
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Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission 3.69 avg rating — 124 ratings
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From Little Houses to Little Women: Revisiting a Literary Childhood
From Little Houses to Little Women: Revisiting a Literary Childhood 3.37 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books
Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books 4.09 avg rating — 427 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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What Are Little Girls Made Of?: A Guide to Female Role Models in Children's Books
What Are Little Girls Made Of?: A Guide to Female Role Models in Children's Books 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Medieval Writers and Their Work: Middle English Literature and its Background 1100–1500
Medieval Writers and Their Work: Middle English Literature and its Background 1100–1500 3.36 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature 4.03 avg rating — 719 ratings
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ABC of Reading
ABC of Reading 3.91 avg rating — 1,894 ratings
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Sounds from the Heart: Learning to Listen to Girls
Sounds from the Heart: Learning to Listen to Girls 4.50 avg rating — 8 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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Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Construction of Gender in Children's Literature
Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Construction of Gender in Children's Literature 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Solitary Vice: Against Reading
The Solitary Vice: Against Reading 3.35 avg rating — 594 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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Why Read Moby-Dick?
Why Read Moby-Dick? 3.77 avg rating — 4,339 ratings
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The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600 4.16 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Little Free Library Book (Books in Action)
The Little Free Library Book (Books in Action) 4.11 avg rating — 465 ratings
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The Spy Novels of John le Carré
The Spy Novels of John le Carré 3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything 3.88 avg rating — 93,068 ratings
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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books 4.25 avg rating — 2,213 ratings
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Der Brockhaus: Literatur
Der Brockhaus: Literatur it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Library: An Unquiet History
Library: An Unquiet History 3.50 avg rating — 1,923 ratings
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Inside Picture Books
Inside Picture Books 3.69 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature (New Directions Books)
Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature (New Directions Books) 4.41 avg rating — 549 ratings
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A Critical History of Old English Literature
A Critical History of Old English Literature 3.60 avg rating — 5 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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Now All We Need Is a Title: Famous Book Titles and How They Got That Way
Now All We Need Is a Title: Famous Book Titles and How They Got That Way 3.24 avg rating — 94 ratings
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When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition
When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition 3.93 avg rating — 90 ratings
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How Should One Read a Book?
How Should One Read a Book? 4.04 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop 3.88 avg rating — 1,145 ratings
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Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian 3.19 avg rating — 1,812 ratings
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Literary Theory: An Introduction
Literary Theory: An Introduction 3.94 avg rating — 5,590 ratings
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Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction
Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction 4.32 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir 4.06 avg rating — 5,290 ratings
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An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction
An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia
Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia 4.49 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Stop What You're Doing and Read This!
Stop What You're Doing and Read This! 3.60 avg rating — 757 ratings
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The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library
The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library 3.38 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture
Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Would You Like Some Bread With That Book? And Other Instances of Literary Love
Would You Like Some Bread With That Book? And Other Instances of Literary Love 3.96 avg rating — 119 ratings
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La verdad de las mentiras
La verdad de las mentiras 4.03 avg rating — 669 ratings
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The Novel: A Biography
The Novel: A Biography 4.19 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Masters Mashups:: From Shakespeare to Stephen King (Masters Mashups Series)
Masters Mashups:: From Shakespeare to Stephen King (Masters Mashups Series) 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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