fiction about bookish things (bookselling, libraries, publishing, printing, conservation, etc), but crowd sourced and so cannot vouch for the appropriateness or quality of these!
novels about books Public
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sarah says: read in BookishBookClub June 2023
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The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood
More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story …
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Pale fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Everyman's library)
4 stars
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an …
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
4 stars
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …
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The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
2 stars
The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who became one of the most powerful …
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4 stars
Luster sees a young black woman figuring her way into life as an artist and into love in this darkly …
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The Forgers by Bradford Morrow
The murderer of Adam Diehl, a reclusive rare-book collector, begins to stalk Adam's sister's lover Will -- a convicted literary …
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It’s 1953, and Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, has entered …
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Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk
2 stars
What holds more secrets in the library: the ancient books shelved in the stacks or the people who preserve them? …
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4 stars
What's the harm in a pseudonym? New York Times bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, …
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Little Village of Book Lovers by Nina George
In Nina George’s New York Times bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop, beloved literary apothecary Jean Perdu is inspired to create …
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The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George, Nina George
2 stars
""There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies--I mean …
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The Archive of Feelings by Michael Hoffmann (trans.), Peter Stamm
Forty years ago—almost a lifetime—he confessed his love to a classmate and close friend, Franziska. Now, living in his late …
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by 青山美智子
4 stars
What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what …
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The blood of the covenant by Brent Monahan
As if performing an art restoration of a timeless masterpiece, Brent Monahan reveals the true image of the vampire trapped …
