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 book on the bookshelf by Henry Petroski
4 stars
Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but …
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Publisher's Paradise by Colette Colligan
From 1890 to 1960, some of Anglo-America's most heated cultural contests over books, sex, and censorship were staged not at …
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George Palmer Putnam by Ezra Greenspan (The Penn State series in the history of the book)
George Palmer Putnam (1814–1872) was arguably the most important American publisher of the nineteenth century, a man fully and multiply …
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Burning Books and Leveling Libraries by Rebecca Knuth, Rebecca Knuth
3 stars
Whether the product of passion or of a cool-headed decision to use ideas to rationalize excess, the decimation of the …
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Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian by Ethelene Whitmire
The first African American to head a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL), Regina Andrews led an extraordinary …
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Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly by Joel Silver
"A history of the business relationship between American bookseller Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach and collector Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., from the …
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Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005 by Phil Baines
3 stars
Ever since the creation of the first Penguin paperbacks in 1935, their jackets have become a constantly evolving part of …
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Forgotten readers by Elizabeth McHenry (New Americanists)
Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as …
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Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles
4 stars
Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are …
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The Illustrated Dust Jacket, 1920-1970 by Martin Salisbury
In the modern era, the “beautiful book,” an art object in its own right, has become the key to the …
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The economy of character by Deidre Lynch
At the start of the eighteenth century, talk of literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it …
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Interacting with Print by The Multigraph Collective
A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new. Interacting with Print delivers …
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Book Parts by Dennis Duncan, Adam Smyth
3 stars
What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the …
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Freedom Libraries by Mike Selby
As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, the media of the time was able to show the …
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The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Jonathan Senchyne
The true scale of paper production in America from 1690 through the end of the nineteenth century was staggering, with …
