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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.

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    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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    Abandon : A Romance
    by PICO IYER

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    Like a Hole in the Head
    by Jen Banbury

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    Bibliophilia : A Novella And Stories
    by Michael Griffith

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    Wonder Boys: A Novel
    by Michael Chabon

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

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    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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    Zod Wallop
    by William Browning Spencer

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    Inkheart
    by Cornelia Funke

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    Inkspell
    by Cornelia Funke

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    The Club Dumas
    by Sonia Soto

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    Paperback Original
    by William Rhode

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    A Case of Curiosities
    by Allen Kurzweil

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    The Grand Complication: A Novel
    by Allen Kurzweil

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    Oracle Night : A Novel (Auster, Paul)
    by Paul Auster

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    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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    Bedlam Burning
    by Geoff Nicholson

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    Hunters and Gatherers
    by Geoff Nicholson

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    The Rule of Four
    by Ian Caldwell

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    Codex
    by Lev Grossman

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    Something Rotten (Thursday Next Novels)
    by Jasper Fforde

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    The Big Over Easy : A Nursery Crime
    by Jasper Fforde

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

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

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    The Eyre Affair
    by Jasper Fforde

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    The Bookshop: A Novel
    by Penelope Fitzgerald

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    A History of Reading
    by Alberto Manguel

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    Walking a Literary Labyrinth
    by Nancy M. Malone

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

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

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Created by inkdrinker on Mar 17, 2006.
 

Comments

Shannon
Hillsborough

Housekeeping vs. the Dirt — 1 year ago

Love this list! Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby is the sequel to The Polysyllabic Spree and just as good, if not better. It has a wonderful introduction about reading. Just thought you might like to add it to the list.


Marianne79
Amsterdam

Nice list! — 2 years ago

Here are some other recommendations:

The book thief – Markus Zusak
The hours – Michael Cunningham
Reading like a writer – Francine Prose


Great List! — 2 years ago

How about Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (or did I miss it?)


Library Lion — 2 years ago

really cute kids book


Suggestion — 2 years ago

LOVE this list – thanks for all the work! How about Sophie’s Choice?


Another one — 2 years ago

Here’s another book that defenitely deserves to be on this list: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.


stonejunction
Fredericton

You missed a couple — 3 years ago

The World According to Garp, by John Irving. Terrific.

The Information, by Martin Amis, about a novel so bad it provokes spontaneous nosebleeds.

Shelf Monkey, by Corey Redekop. Ok, this hasn’t been released yet, but why should I be above a certain amount of shameless self-promotion? It is about books, I assure you.

The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco.


buocl
Medina

One more for you — 3 years ago

Murder at the ABA by Isaac Asimov. A cool little non-scifi book.