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 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
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 (Discworld, part 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 …
