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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Elmo Doolan and the Search for the Golden Mouse by Victoria Holmes
Upset by the books that say they are stupid, smelly, and lowly, a family of library mice do the research …
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4 stars
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised …
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The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
4 stars
In a fantastical illustrated short novel, three people imprisoned in a nightmarish library plot their escape.
Orig: Fushigi na toshokan …
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Le Figuier by François Maspero
Après Le Sourire du chat (1984) où il évoquait une enfance à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ce …
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The sixteen pleasures by Robert Hellenga
3 stars
The Italians called them "Mud Angels," the young foreigners who came to Florence in 1966 to save the city's treasured …
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Beginning of spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
4 stars
Frank Reid is a struggling printer in Moscow. On the eve of the Revolution, his wife returns to her native …
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The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams
4 stars
An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer …
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The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams
3 stars
A quirky club in small-town North Carolina holds the keys to health, happiness, friendship—and even solving a murder—all to be …
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The cookbook collector by Allegra Goodman
3 stars
Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an …
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Vietri Project by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye
Working at a bookstore in Berkeley in the years after college, Gabriele becomes intrigued by the orders of signor Vietri, …
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A Discovery of Witches by Deborah E. Harkness (All Souls, #1)
4 stars
An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance.
When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, …
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The Book of Secrets by Melissa McShane
4 stars
Helena Davies just wants a job that will get her out of her parents’ basement. Instead, by the end of …
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The meaning of night by Michael Cox
3 stars
Convinced that he is destined for great wealth, power, and influence, Edward Glyver will do anything to reclaim a prize …
