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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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
4 stars
A.J. Fikry's life is not what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is failing, and …
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Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
4 stars
Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet seems to have the perfect life with her handsome police officer beau and …
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Nicholas Flood, an unassuming eighteenth-century London printer, specializes in novelty books -- books that nestle into one another, books comprised …
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Bookshop Girl by Sylvia Bishop, Poly Bernatene
Property Jones and her family are in dire straits when they win a drawing for the greatest bookstore in England …
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The bookshop on the corner by Jenny Colgan
4 stars
Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion... and also her job. …
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No Angel by Penny Vincenzi (Lytton Family (1))
4 stars
Routinely making decisions that have dangerous consequences, strong-willed aristocrat's daughter Celia Lytton sets in motion a series of events during …
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Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli, Valeria Luiselli
4 stars
In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set …
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Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
4 stars
As she drives her mobile library van between villages of Ireland's West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about …
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The Truth by Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #25)
4 stars
The denizens of Ankh-Morpork fancy they've seen just about everything. But then comes the Ankh-Morpork Times, struggling scribe William de …
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
4 stars
Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the …
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The Lost Diary of Venice by Margaux DeRoux
In the wake of her father’s death, Rose Newlin finds solace in her work as a book restorer. Then, one …
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La Misteriosa fiamma della Regina Loana by Umberto Eco
3 stars
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (original Italian title: La Misteriosa Fiamma della Regina Loana) is a novel by Italian …
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The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
5 stars
Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale …
