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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84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
4 stars
A heartwarming love story about people who love books for readers who love books
This funny, poignant classic love story …
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4 stars
from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christabel_LaMotte
Possession: A Romance is a 1990 bestselling novel by British writer A. S. Byatt. It is a winner …
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People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
4 stars
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. …
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The name of the rose by Umberto Eco
4 stars
A 14th-century ex-Inquisitor investigates murder at a monastery and finds mysteries within mysteries. Eco's masterwork of literary genius is a …
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The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
5 stars
Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. …
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Too loud a solitude by Bohumil Hrabal (Harvest in translation)
5 stars
TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Haňťa - a man who has lived in a …
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore by Robin Sloan
4 stars
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles …
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Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
Written between 1837 and 1843, Lost Illusions reveals, perhaps better than any other of Balzac's ninety-two novels, the nature and …
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4 stars
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My …
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3 stars
About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hot-shot young investment banker, is sent to help …
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The rule of four by Ian Caldwell
3 stars
Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the …
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The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber, Gruber, Michael
3 stars
A fire destroys a New York City rare bookstore—and reveals clues to a treasure worth killing for. . . . …
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By its cover by Donna Leon (A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery -- book 23)
One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen …
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Book of Lamps and Banners by Elizabeth Hand
4 stars
Photographer Cass Neary is desperate to get home, and she's already lost her camera -- like losing a limb. Now …
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Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Inkheart Trilogy, 1, bk. 1)
4 stars
A twelve-year-old girl named Meggie discovers that her father, Mo, can transport fictional characters out of books and into the …
