The Best Books About Reading

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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
2.
A History of Reading
A History of Reading 3.99 avg rating — 5,411 ratings
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader 4.10 avg rating — 13,934 ratings
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The Library at Night
The Library at Night 3.98 avg rating — 3,930 ratings
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 136,055 ratings
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An Everywhere: A Little Book About Reading
An Everywhere: A Little Book About Reading 3.57 avg rating — 68 ratings
7.
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History 3.82 avg rating — 2,828 ratings
8.
Why Read the Classics?
Why Read the Classics? 3.83 avg rating — 3,249 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
84, Charing Cross Road 4.16 avg rating — 93,093 ratings
10.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,465 ratings
11.
The Rights of the Reader
The Rights of the Reader 3.97 avg rating — 12,429 ratings
12.
The Bookseller of Kabul
The Bookseller of Kabul 3.77 avg rating — 56,007 ratings
13.
The Library Book
The Library Book 3.76 avg rating — 1,455 ratings
14.
Brought to Book
Brought to Book really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
14.
Why Read?
Why Read? 3.70 avg rating — 653 ratings
16.
Fingersmith
Fingersmith 4.02 avg rating — 115,233 ratings
17.
The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading 3.45 avg rating — 989 ratings
18.
The Book: A Global History
The Book: A Global History 4.11 avg rating — 62 ratings
19.
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 — 8,021 ratings
20.
How Proust Can Change Your Life
How Proust Can Change Your Life 3.76 avg rating — 18,288 ratings
21.
My Reading Life
My Reading Life 3.95 avg rating — 8,190 ratings
22.
The Woman Reader
The Woman Reader 3.74 avg rating — 163 ratings
23.
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
24.
The City of Words
The City of Words 3.65 avg rating — 818 ratings
25.
The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time
The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time 3.53 avg rating — 144 ratings
26.
Buried in Books: A Reader's Anthology
Buried in Books: A Reader's Anthology 3.69 avg rating — 176 ratings
27.
How Fiction Works
How Fiction Works 3.99 avg rating — 7,948 ratings