fiction about bookish things (bookselling, libraries, publishing, printing, conservation, etc), but crowd sourced and so cannot vouch for the appropriateness or quality of these!
novels about books Public
Created by sarah and managed by BookishBookClub
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84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
4 stars
A heartwarming love story about people who love books for readers who love books
This funny, poignant classic love story …
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5 stars
from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christabel_LaMotte
Possession: A Romance is a 1990 bestselling novel by British writer A. S. Byatt. It is a winner …
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People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
4 stars
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. …
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The name of the rose by Umberto Eco
4 stars
A 14th-century ex-Inquisitor investigates murder at a monastery and finds mysteries within mysteries. Eco's masterwork of literary genius is a …
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The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
5 stars
Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. …
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Too loud a solitude by Bohumil Hrabal (Harvest in translation)
5 stars
TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Haňťa - a man who has lived in a …
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore by Robin Sloan
4 stars
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles …
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Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
Written between 1837 and 1843, Lost Illusions reveals, perhaps better than any other of Balzac's ninety-two novels, the nature and …
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4 stars
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My …
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3 stars
About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hot-shot young investment banker, is sent to help …
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The rule of four by Ian Caldwell
3 stars
Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the …
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The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber, Gruber, Michael
3 stars
A fire destroys a New York City rare bookstore—and reveals clues to a treasure worth killing for. . . . …
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By its cover by Donna Leon (A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery -- book 23)
One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen …
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Book of Lamps and Banners by Elizabeth Hand
4 stars
Photographer Cass Neary is desperate to get home, and she's already lost her camera -- like losing a limb. Now …
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Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Inkheart Trilogy, 1, bk. 1)
4 stars
A twelve-year-old girl named Meggie discovers that her father, Mo, can transport fictional characters out of books and into the …
