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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Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden
4 stars
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction -- and surprising …
sarah says: read January 2022
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The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
3 stars
The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who became one of the most powerful …
sarah says: read August 2021
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Japan in Print by Mary Elizabeth Berry (Asia - Local Studies/Global Themes)
5 stars
A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators …
sarah says: read May 2021
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The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
3 stars
Urgent, propulsive, and sharp as a knife, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that unfurls …
sarah says: read July 2021
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Natural Enemies Of Books by M. Fanni, M. Flodmark, S. Kaaman
4 stars
The Natural Enemies of Books is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, which brought …
sarah says: read March/April 2021
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Dangerous Books For Girls by Maya Rodale
4 stars
Long before clinch covers and bodice rippers, romance novels had a bad reputation as the lowbrow lit of desperate housewives …
sarah says: read February 2021
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Genre Worlds by Beth Driscoll, Lisa Fletcher, Kim Wilkins (Page and Screen)
Works of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of relaxation. …
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Matchmaking in the Archive by E. G. Crichton
4 stars
Though today’s LGBTQ people owe a lot to the generations who came before them, their historical inheritances are not always …
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Published by the Author by Bryan Sinche
Publication is an act of power. It brings a piece of writing to the public and identifies its author as …
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Scattered and Fugitive Things by Laura Helton
During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history …
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Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson, Eversmann, Matt
This “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) is “a real page turner!” (Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan) that "feels …
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A scholar and bookmaker “breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life” (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of …
