A list of potential books for the Bookish Book Club. The book club open to anyone who wants to read books about books with a bunch of librarians and book historians--see bookishbook.club/ for more info.
BookishBookClub books of interest Public
Created by sarah
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Placing Papers by Amy Hildreth Chen
The sale of authors’ papers to archives has become big news, with collections from James Baldwin and Arthur Miller fetching …
sarah says: Feb 2022: We are currently slow-reading this one and chatting on Discord
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An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege by Heidi Ardizzone Ph.D.
What would you give up to achieve your dream? When J. P. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene in 1905 …
sarah says: read August 2020
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"The untold story of the mother and daughter who opened the door to Emily Dickinson's poetry. Emily Dickinson may be …
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The Century of Artists' Books by Johanna Drucker
Johanna Drucker's The Century of Artists' Books is the seminal full-length study of the development of artists' books as a …
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Forging history by Kenneth W. Rendell
Discusses the art of manuscript, document, and antiquity forgery, and explains how such fakes can be detected
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The world's best books by Jay Satterfield (Studies in print culture and the history of the book)
In October 1930, Macy's department store in New York City used the inexpensive book series "The Modern Library of the …
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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy by Anne Boyd Rioux
4 stars
In Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, Anne Boyd Rioux brings a fresh and engaging look at the circumstances leading Louisa May …
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Wrestling with the muse by Melba Joyce Boyd
In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall (1914--2000) wrote "The Ballad of Birmingham" in response to the bombing of …
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The Look of Love by Jennifer McKnight-Trontz
Swashbuckling sailors, dashing dukes, naughty nurses, and sexy steward-esses caught in webs of love, passion, betrayal, and intrigue: these are …
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Literary industries by Hubert Howe Bancroft
"A bookseller in San Francisco during the gold rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) rose to become the man who would …
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First published to celebrate Faber's 90th anniversary, this is the story of one of the world's greatest publishing houses - …
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On paper by Nicholas A. Basbanes
5 stars
A consideration of all things paper--the invention that revolutionized human civilization; its thousand-fold uses (and misuses); its sweeping influence on …
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The forbidden best-sellers of pre-revolutionary France by Robert Darnton
More popular than the canon of the great Enlightenment philosophers were other books, also banned by the regime, written and …
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Book Row by Marvin Mondlin, Roy Meador
New York City has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, on the …
