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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The paper trail by Monro, Alexander
5 stars
This is the story of how you came to be holding this book, how you came to be following its …
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Well-read Black girl by Glory Edim
5 stars
"Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? In this collection …
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4 stars
Anne Fadiman is (by her own admission) the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of …
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Mortuary of Books by Elisabeth Gallas, Alex Skinner
The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust In March …
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Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England by Claire M. L. Bourne
Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It tells …
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The Woman Who Discovered Printing by T. H. Barrett
This beguiling book asks a set of unusual and fascinating questions—why is early Chinese printing so little acknowledged, despite anticipating …
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4 stars
Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: …
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Bookishness by Jessica Pressman
Twenty-first-century culture is obsessed with books. In a time when many voices have joined to predict the death of print, …
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The Networked Wilderness by Matt Cohen
In The Networked Wilderness, Matt Cohen examines communications systems in early New England and finds that, surprisingly, struggles over information …
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Indigenous Textual Cultures by Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson, Angela Wanhalla
As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of conquest. For imperial …
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Queequeg's coffin by Birgit Brander Rasmussen
The encounter between European and native peoples in the Americas is often portrayed as a conflict between literate civilization and …
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Colonial Mediascapes Sensory Worlds Of The Early Americas by Matt Cohen
In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the …
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The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability by Kristen Hogan
From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some …
sarah says: read June 2021
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Unspeakable by Rodger Streitmatter
Unspeakable documents the major phases in the evolution of the gay and lesbian press while providing a window into the …
