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inkdrinker's "Books About Books"

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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1. 84, Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
  
2. I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
  
3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
  
4. About the Author: A Novel
by John Colapinto
  
5. A Literary Murder
by Batya Gur
  
6. Ibid: A Life
by Mark Dunn
  
7. Hallucinating Foucault
by Patricia Duncker
  
8. The Book of Joe
by Jonathan Tropper
  
9.
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 Book: A Novel
by Robert Grudin
  
10. Abandon : A Romance
by PICO IYER
  
11. Like a Hole in the Head
by Jen Banbury
  
12. Bibliophilia : A Novella And Stories
by Michael Griffith
  
13. Wonder Boys: A Novel
by Michael Chabon
  
14. Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
by Richard Flanagan
  
15. The Conquest
by Yxta Maya Murray
  
16. Paul Auster's City of Glass
by Paul Auster
  
17. The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  
18. City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, Vol 1)
by Paul Auster
  
19. The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
  
20. Ex-Libris
by Ross King
  
21. Zod Wallop
by William Browning Spencer
  
22. Inkheart
by Cornelia Funke
  
23. Inkspell
by Cornelia Funke
  
24. The Club Dumas
by Sonia Soto
  
25. Paperback Original
by William Rhode
  
26. A Case of Curiosities
by Allen Kurzweil
  
27. The Grand Complication: A Novel
by Allen Kurzweil
  
28. Oracle Night : A Novel (Auster, Paul)
by Paul Auster
  
29. The Bookman's Promise (Cliff Janeway Novels )
by John Dunning
  
30. The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway Novels (Paperback))
by John Dunning
  
31. The Sign of the Book : A Cliff Janeway "Bookman" Novel (Cliff Janeway Novels)
by John Dunning
  
32. Bedlam Burning
by Geoff Nicholson
  
33. Hunters and Gatherers
by Geoff Nicholson
  
34. The Rule of Four
by Ian Caldwell
  
35. Codex
by Lev Grossman
  
36. Something Rotten (Thursday Next Novels)
by Jasper Fforde
  
37. The Big Over Easy : A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde
  
38. Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next Novels)
by Jasper Fforde
  
39. The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next Series)
by Jasper Fforde
  
40. The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
  
41. The Bookshop: A Novel
by Penelope Fitzgerald
  
42. So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
by Sara Nelson
  
43. So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
by Gabriel Zaid
  
44. A History of Reading
by Alberto Manguel
  
45. Walking a Literary Labyrinth
by Nancy M. Malone
  
46. The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
by Francis Spufford
  
47. Sixpence House: Lost in A Town Of Books
by Paul Collins
  
48. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
by Nicholson Baker
  
49. 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature
by Nicholas J. Karolides
  
50. Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
  
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Created by inkdrinker on Mar 17, 2006.