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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

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    I Capture the Castle
    by Dodie Smith

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    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

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    About the Author: A Novel
    by John Colapinto

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    A Literary Murder
    by Batya Gur

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    Ibid: A Life
    by Mark Dunn

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    Hallucinating Foucault
    by Patricia Duncker

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    The Book of Joe
    by Jonathan Tropper

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    Book: A Novel
    by Robert Grudin

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  10. 10.
    Abandon : A Romance
    by PICO IYER

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    Like a Hole in the Head
    by Jen Banbury

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

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    Wonder Boys: A Novel
    by Michael Chabon

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  14. 14.
    Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
    by Richard Flanagan

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  15. 15.
    The Conquest
    by Yxta Maya Murray

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    Paul Auster's City of Glass
    by Paul Auster

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    The Shadow of the Wind
    by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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    City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, Vol 1)
    by Paul Auster

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    Ex-Libris
    by Ross King

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  20. 21.
    Zod Wallop
    by William Browning Spencer

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  21. 22.
    Inkheart
    by Cornelia Funke

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    Inkspell
    by Cornelia Funke

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  23. 24.
    The Club Dumas
    by Sonia Soto

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  24. 25.
    Paperback Original
    by William Rhode

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  25. 26.
    A Case of Curiosities
    by Allen Kurzweil

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

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

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

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    The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway Novels (Paperback))
    by John Dunning

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  30. 32.
    Bedlam Burning
    by Geoff Nicholson

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  31. 33.
    Hunters and Gatherers
    by Geoff Nicholson

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  32. 34.
    The Rule of Four
    by Ian Caldwell

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  33. 35.
    Codex
    by Lev Grossman

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

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

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

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

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  38. 40.
    The Eyre Affair
    by Jasper Fforde

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  39. 41.
    The Bookshop: A Novel
    by Penelope Fitzgerald

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    A History of Reading
    by Alberto Manguel

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  43. 45.
    Walking a Literary Labyrinth
    by Nancy M. Malone

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  44. 46.
    The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
    by Francis Spufford

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  45. 47.
    Sixpence House: Lost in A Town Of Books
    by Paul Collins

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  46. 48.
    Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
    by Nicholson Baker

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  47. 49.
    100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature
    by Nicholas J. Karolides

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    A Pound Of Paper: Confessions Of A Book Addict
    by John Baxter

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  51. 55.
    The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading
    by Geoffrey O'Brien

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  52. 56.
    Library: An Unquiet History
    by Matthew Battles

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  53. 59.
    How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel
    by Alain De Botton

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  54. 62.
    Stolen Words (Harvest Book)
    by Thomas Mallon

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  55. 63.
    The Book History Reader

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  56. 64.
    The Poet and the Murderer
    by Simon Worrall

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  57. 65.
    Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering
    by Wendy Lesser

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  58. 67.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  61. 71.
    The Uses of Literature
    by Italo Calvino

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  62. 73.
    Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore
    by Lawrence Goldstone

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  63. 74.
    The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes
    by Chuck Zerby

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  64. 75.
    Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
    by H. Jackson

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    The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
    by Peter Ackroyd

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  66. 78.
    CHATTERTON
    by Peter Ackroyd

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  67. 82.
    100 One-Night Reads: A Book Lover's Guide
    by David C. Major

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  68. 84.
    The Fear of Books
    by Holbrook Jackson

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  69. 85.
    The Reading of Books
    by Holbrook Jackson

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  70. 86.
    Great Books
    by David Denby

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  71. 87.
    The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader
    by Eric Burns

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  72. 88.
    The Jane Austen Book Club
    by Karen Joy Fowler

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  73. 89.
    An Open Book: Chapters from a Reader's Life
    by Michael Dirda

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  74. 90.
    Bound to Please
    by Michael Dirda

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  75. 91.
    An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland
    by Michael Dirda

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  76. 92.
    Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
    by Michael Dirda

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  77. 93.
    Readings: Essays & Literary Entertainments
    by Michael Dirda

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  78. 94.
    Speaking of Reading
    by Nadine Rosenthal

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  79. 96.
    Literary Trivia: Fun and Games for Book Lovers
    by Richard Lederer

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  80. 97.
    The Man Who Wrote the Book
    by Erik Tarloff

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  81. 99.
    The Man Behind the Book: Literary Profiles
    by Louis Auchincloss

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  82. 100.
    Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
    by Stephen Greenblatt

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

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  85. 104.
    Book Doctor
    by Esther Cohen

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  86. 106.
    The Book of Q: A Novel
    by Jonathan Rabb

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  87. 107.
    Memoirs of a Bookbat
    by Kathryn Lasky

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  88. 108.
    Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature
    by David P. Barash

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  89. 110.
    The Book on the Bookshelf
    by Henry Petroski

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  90. 111.
    Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books
    by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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  91. 112.
    Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader
    by Anne Fadiman

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  92. 115.
    Cult Fiction
    by Andrew Calcutt

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  93. 116.
    The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
    by Helene Hanff

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  94. 117.
    Q's Legacy
    by Helene Hanff

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  95. 118.
    Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers
    by Frances Wilson

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  96. 119.
    The Story Teller
    by Arthur Reid

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  97. 121.
    The Library Dragon
    by Carmen Agra Deedy

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  98. 123.
    Haunted Bookshop
    by Christopher Morley

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  99. 128.
    Stella Louella's Runaway Book
    by Lisa Campbell Ernst

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  100. 129.
    The Polysyllabic Spree
    by Nick Hornby

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  101. 130.
    Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction
    by Tom Raabe

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  102. 131.
    Author Unknown: Tales of a Literary Detective
    by Donald W. Foster

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  103. 133.
    In the Hand of Dante: A Novel
    by Nick Tosches

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  104. 135.
    Reading in Bed: Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading
    by Steven Gilbar

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  105. 136.
    Death By Publication
    by Jean-Jacques Fiechter

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  106. 137.
    The Archivist: A Novel
    by Martha Cooley

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  107. 138.
    Whole New Religion
    by Bob Jakubovic

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  108. 139.
    The Dante Club : A Novel
    by Matthew Pearl

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  109. 140.
    The Great Pursuit
    by Tom Sharpe

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  110. 141.
    The Book Against God: A Novel
    by James Wood

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  111. 142.
    The Solace of Leaving Early
    by Haven Kimmel

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  112. 143.
    Capote In Kansas
    by Ande Parks

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  113. 144.
    Shakespeare and Company
    by Sylvia Beach

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  114. 146.
    Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    by Dai Sijie

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  115. 147.
    The Book Thief
    by Markus Zusak

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Created by AuntieAnnie on Jul 29, 2007.