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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  3. 54.
    A Pound Of Paper: Confessions Of A Book Addict
    by John Baxter

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  4. 55.
    The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading
    by Geoffrey O'Brien

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  5. 56.
    Library: An Unquiet History
    by Matthew Battles

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  6. 59.
    How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel
    by Alain De Botton

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  7. 62.
    Stolen Words (Harvest Book)
    by Thomas Mallon

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  8. 63.
    The Book History Reader

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  9. 64.
    The Poet and the Murderer
    by Simon Worrall

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  10. 65.
    Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering
    by Wendy Lesser

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  11. 67.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  14. 71.
    The Uses of Literature
    by Italo Calvino

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  15. 73.
    Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore
    by Lawrence Goldstone

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  16. 74.
    The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes
    by Chuck Zerby

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  17. 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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  19. 78.
    CHATTERTON
    by Peter Ackroyd

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  20. 82.
    100 One-Night Reads: A Book Lover's Guide
    by David C. Major

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  21. 84.
    The Fear of Books
    by Holbrook Jackson

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  22. 85.
    The Reading of Books
    by Holbrook Jackson

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  23. 86.
    Great Books
    by David Denby

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  24. 87.
    The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader
    by Eric Burns

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  25. 88.
    The Jane Austen Book Club
    by Karen Joy Fowler

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  26. 89.
    An Open Book: Chapters from a Reader's Life
    by Michael Dirda

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  27. 90.
    Bound to Please
    by Michael Dirda

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  28. 91.
    An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland
    by Michael Dirda

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  29. 92.
    Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
    by Michael Dirda

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  30. 93.
    Readings: Essays & Literary Entertainments
    by Michael Dirda

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  31. 94.
    Speaking of Reading
    by Nadine Rosenthal

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  32. 96.
    Literary Trivia: Fun and Games for Book Lovers
    by Richard Lederer

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  33. 97.
    The Man Who Wrote the Book
    by Erik Tarloff

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  34. 99.
    The Man Behind the Book: Literary Profiles
    by Louis Auchincloss

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  35. 100.
    Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
    by Stephen Greenblatt

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Created by inkdrinker on Mar 17, 2006.
 

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