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AuntieAnnie's "Books About Books"

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This list is one I’ve always wanted to find, but I’ve never been able to find a really extensive list of this sort. I love books about books. It doesn’t matter if the books are fiction or nonfiction. I find books about reading, writing, collecting, libraries, books as a physical object, the history of books, and various other aspects of texts absolutly fasinating.

I will be adding to this list over time, because I’ve found (through loads of personal research) a ridiculous number of these sorts of books.

  1. 1.
    84, Charing Cross Road
    by Helene Hanff

  2. 2.
    I Capture the Castle
    by Dodie Smith

  3. 3.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

  4. 4.
    About the Author: A Novel
    by John Colapinto

  5. 5.
    Literary Murder
    by Batya Gur

  6. 6.
    Ibid: A Life
    by Mark Dunn

  7. 7.
    Hallucinating Foucault
    by Patricia Duncker

  8. 8.
    The Book of Joe: A Novel
    by Jonathan Tropper

  9. 9.
    ?
    Book: A Novel
    by Robert Grudin

  10. 10.
    Abandon : A Romance
    by Pico Iyer

  11. 11.
    Like a Hole in the Head
    by Jen Banbury

  12. 12.
    Bibliophilia: A Novella And Stories
    by Michael Griffith

  13. 13.
    Wonder Boys: A Novel
    by Michael Chabon

  14. 14.
    Gould's Book of Fish
    by Richard Flanagan

  15. 15.
    The Conquest
    by Yxta Maya Murray

  16. 16.
    Neon Lit: Paul Auster's City of Glass
    by Paul Auster

  17. 17.
    The Shadow of the Wind
    by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  18. 18.
    City of Glass (New York Trilogy)
    by Paul Auster

  19. 20.
    Ex-Libris
    by Ross King

  20. 21.
    Zod Wallop
    by William Spencer

  21. 22.
    Inkheart
    by Cornelia Funke

  22. 23.
    Inkspell
    by Cornelia Funke

  23. 24.
    The Club Dumas
    by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  24. 25.
    Paperback Original
    by William Rhode

  25. 26.
    A Case of Curiosities
    by Allen Kurzweil

  26. 27.
    The Grand Complication: A Novel
    by Allen Kurzweil

  27. 28.
    Oracle Night : A Novel (Auster, Paul)
    by Paul Auster

  28. 29.
    The Bookman's Promise (Cliff Janeway Novels )
    by John Dunning

  29. 30.
    The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway Novels)
    by John Dunning

  30. 32.
    Bedlam Burning
    by Geoff Nicholson

  31. 33.
    Hunters and Gatherers
    by Geoff Nicholson

  32. 34.
    The Rule of Four
    by Ian Caldwell

  33. 35.
    Codex
    by Lev Grossman

  34. 36.
    Something Rotten (Thursday Next Novels)
    by Jasper Fforde

  35. 37.
    The Big Over Easy : A Nursery Crime
    by Jasper Fforde

  36. 38.
    Lost in a Good Book (A Thursday Next Novel)
    by Jasper Fforde

  37. 39.
    The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next Series)
    by Jasper Fforde

  38. 41.
    The Bookshop
    by Penelope Fitzgerald

  39. 42.

  40. 43.

  41. 44.
    A History of Reading
    by Alberto Manguel

  42. 45.
    Walking a Literary Labyrinth
    by Nancy M. Malone

  43. 46.
    The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
    by Francis Spufford

  44. 47.
    Sixpence House: Lost in A Town Of Books
    by Paul Collins

  45. 48.
    Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
    by Nicholson Baker

  46. 49.
    100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature
    by Nicholas J. Karolides

  47. 51.

  48. 52.

  49. 54.
    A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict
    by John Baxter

  50. 55.
    The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading
    by Geoffrey O'Brien

  51. 56.
    Library: An Unquiet History
    by Matthew Battles

  52. 59.
    How Proust Can Change Your Life
    by Alain De Botton

  53. 62.
    Stolen Words - The Classic Book on Plagiarism
    by Thomas Mallon

  54. 63.
    The Book History Reader

  55. 64.
    The Poet and the Murderer
    by Simon Worrall

  56. 65.
    Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering
    by Wendy Lesser

  57. 67.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  58. 69.

  59. 71.
    The Uses of Literature
    by Italo Calvino

  60. 73.
    Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore
    by Lawrence Goldstone

  61. 74.
    The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes
    by Chuck Zerby

  62. 75.
    Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
    by H. Jackson

  63. 77.
    ?
    The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
    by Peter Ackroyd

  64. 78.
    Chatterton
    by Peter Ackroyd

  65. 82.
    100 One-Night Reads: A Book Lover's Guide
    by David C. Major

  66. 84.
    The Fear of Books
    by Holbrook Jackson

  67. 85.
    The Reading of Books
    by Holbrook Jackson

  68. 86.
    GREAT BOOKS
    by David Denby

  69. 87.
    The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader
    by Eric Burns

  70. 88.
    The Jane Austen Book Club
    by Karen Joy Fowler

  71. 89.
    An Open Book: Chapters from a Reader's Life
    by Michael Dirda

  72. 90.
    Bound to Please
    by Michael Dirda

  73. 91.
    An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland
    by Michael Dirda

  74. 92.
    Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
    by Michael Dirda

  75. 93.
    Readings: Essays & Literary Entertainments
    by Michael Dirda

  76. 94.
    Speaking of Reading
    by Nadine Rosenthal

  77. 96.
    Literary Trivia: Fun and Games for Book Lovers
    by Richard Lederer

  78. 97.
    The Man Who Wrote the Book
    by Erik Tarloff

  79. 99.
    The Man Behind the Book: Literary Profiles
    by Louis Auchincloss

  80. 100.
    Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
    by Stephen Greenblatt

  81. 101.

  82. 102.
    How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book)
    by Mortimer J. Adler

  83. 104.
    Book Doctor
    by Esther Cohen

  84. 106.
    The Book of Q: A Novel
    by Jonathan Rabb

  85. 107.
    Memoirs of a Bookbat
    by Kathryn Lasky

  86. 108.
    Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature
    by David P. Barash

  87. 110.
    The Book on the Bookshelf
    by Henry Petroski

  88. 111.
    Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
    by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  89. 112.
    Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader
    by Anne Fadiman

  90. 115.
    Cult Fiction
    by Andrew Calcutt

  91. 116.
    The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
    by Helene Hanff

  92. 117.
    Q's Legacy
    by Helene Hanff

  93. 118.
    Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers
    by Frances Wilson

  94. 119.
    The Story Teller
    by Arthur Reid

  95. 121.
    The Library Dragon
    by Carmen Agra Deedy

  96. 123.
    Haunted Bookshop
    by Christopher Morley

  97. 128.
    Stella Louella's Runaway Book
    by Lisa Campbell Ernst

  98. 129.
    The Polysyllabic Spree
    by Nick Hornby

  99. 130.
    Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction
    by Tom Raabe

  100. 131.
    Author Unknown: Tales of a Literary Detective
    by Don Foster

  101. 133.
    In the Hand of Dante: A Novel
    by Nick Tosches

  102. 135.
    Reading in Bed: Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading
    by Steven Gilbar

  103. 136.
    Death By Publication
    by Jean-Jacques Fiechter

  104. 137.
    The Archivist: A Novel
    by Martha Cooley

  105. 138.
    Whole New Religion
    by Bob Jakubovic

  106. 139.
    The Dante Club: A Novel
    by Matthew Pearl

  107. 140.
    The Great Pursuit
    by Tom Sharpe

  108. 141.
    The Book Against God: A Novel
    by James Wood

  109. 142.
    The Solace of Leaving Early
    by Haven Kimmel

  110. 143.
    Capote In Kansas
    by Ande Parks

  111. 144.
    Shakespeare and Company
    by Sylvia Beach

  112. 146.
    Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    by Dai Sijie

  113. 147.
    The Book Thief
    by Markus Zusak

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Created by AuntieAnnie on Jul 29, 2007.
 

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