inkdrinker'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.

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    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
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    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. 19.
    The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript
    by Umberto Eco
  20. 20.
    Ex-Libris
    by Ross King
  21. 21.
    Zod Wallop
    by William Spencer
  22. 22.
    Inkheart
    by Cornelia Funke
  23. 23.
    Inkspell
    by Cornelia Funke
  24. 24.
    The Club Dumas
    by Arturo Perez-Reverte
  25. 25.
    Paperback Original
    by William Rhode
  26. 26.
    A Case of Curiosities
    by Allen Kurzweil
  27. 27.
    The Grand Complication: A Novel
    by Allen Kurzweil
  28. 28.
    Oracle Night : A Novel (Auster, Paul)
    by Paul Auster
  29. 29.
    The Bookman's Promise (Cliff Janeway Novels)
    by John Dunning
  30. 30.
    The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway Novels)
    by John Dunning
  32. 32.
    Bedlam Burning
    by Geoff Nicholson
  33. 33.
    Hunters and Gatherers
    by Geoff Nicholson
  34. 34.
    The Rule of Four
    by Ian Caldwell
  35. 35.
    Codex
    by Lev Grossman
  36. 36.
    Something Rotten (Thursday Next Novels)
    by Jasper Fforde
  37. 37.
    The Big Over Easy : A Nursery Crime
    by Jasper Fforde
  38. 38.
    Lost in a Good Book (A Thursday Next Novel)
    by Jasper Fforde
  39. 39.
    The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next Series)
    by Jasper Fforde
  40. 40.
    The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel
    by Jasper Fforde
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    The Bookshop
    by Penelope Fitzgerald
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  44. 44.
    A History of Reading
    by Alberto Manguel
  45. 45.
    Walking a Literary Labyrinth
    by Nancy M. Malone
  46. 46.
    The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
    by Francis Spufford
  47. 47.
    Sixpence House: Lost in A Town Of Books
    by Paul Collins
  48. 48.
    Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
    by Nicholson Baker
  49. 49.
    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

Housekeeping vs. the Dirt — 4 years 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.

Jul 22, 08:10PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Marianne79

Nice list! — 5 years ago

Here are some other recommendations:

The book thief – Markus Zusak

The hours – Michael Cunningham

Reading like a writer – Francine Prose

Aug 03, 12:58AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

tassini

Great List! — 5 years ago

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

Jun 04, 07:04AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Dodgerj

Library Lion — 6 years ago

really cute kids book

Apr 25, 06:25PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

southernbohemian

Suggestion — 6 years ago

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

Apr 10, 09:12AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

cassiopeia81

Another one — 6 years ago

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

Mar 20, 03:20AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

stonejunction

You missed a couple — 6 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.

Jun 09, 08:24AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

buocl

One more for you — 6 years ago

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

Jun 08, 01:24PM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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