fiction about bookish things (bookselling, libraries, publishing, printing, conservation, etc) primarily via twitter (twitter.com/wynkenhimself/status/1411715062889422854), so cannot vouch for many of these
novels about books Public
Created and curated by sarah
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The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
3 stars
The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . …
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4 stars
Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he’s an avid collector of rare and …
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Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon, Jonathan Wright
Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, …
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next) by Jasper Fforde, Jasper Fforde (Thursday Next (1))
4 stars
Fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse will love visiting Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, when time travel …
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4 stars
Isaac Vainio is a Libriomancer, a member of the secret organization founded five centuries ago by Johannes Gutenberg. Libriomancers are …
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The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman (The Invisible Library)
4 stars
ONE THING ANY LIBRARY WILL TELL YOU: THE TRUST IS MUCH STRANGER THAN FICTION...
Irene is a professional spy for …
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The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
3 stars
New York, 1952. Four young women have come to the city: to find love, to build their careers and to …
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The Simmons Papers by Philipp Blom
Simmons was allocated the letter P in the compilation of a great dictionary. On his death a manuscript is discovered, …
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The Binding by Bridget Collins
4 stars
Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It's a world in which …
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The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
4 stars
FAR BENEATH the surface of the earth, upon the shores of the Starless Sea, there is a labyrinthine collection of …
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Gutenberg's apprentice by Alix Christie
4 stars
Youthful, ambitious Peter Schoeffer is on the verge of professional success as a scribe in Paris when his foster father, …
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The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
4 stars
The Bookshop is a 1978 novel by the British author Penelope Fitzgerald. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The …
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The golden age by Michal Ajvaz (Czech literature series)
Heir to the philosophical-fantastical tradition of Borges, Calvino, and Perec, The Golden Age is Michal Ajvaz’s greatest and most ambitious …
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La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4 stars
The Shadow of the Wind (Spanish: La sombra del viento) is a 2001 novel by the Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz …
