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Books about Books
Books that are about a love of books, literature, or reading. Books of reviews included.
Tags: about-books, books, literature, metafiction, and reading

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Matilda
Matilda
by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) 27 people voted »
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury 26 people voted »
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The Eyre Affair
The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde 20 people voted »
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak 19 people voted »
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Lost in a Good Book
Lost in a Good Book
by Jasper Fforde 16 people voted »
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Inkheart
Inkheart
by Cornelia Funke 14 people voted »
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The Neverending Story
The Neverending Story
by Michael Ende, Ralph Manheim (Translator) 14 people voted »
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The Shadow of the Wind
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Lucia Graves (Translator) 12 people voted »
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The Thirteenth Tale
The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield 12 people voted »
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The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer 10 people voted »
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
by Anne Fadiman 10 people voted »
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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passio...
by Sara Nelson 10 people voted »
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The Historian
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova 9 people voted »
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Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen 9 people voted »
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The Uncommon Reader: A Novella
The Uncommon Reader: A Novella
by Alan Bennett 8 people voted »
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The Polysyllabic Spree
The Polysyllabic Spree
by Nick Hornby 7 people voted »
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
by Peter Boxall 7 people voted »
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The City of Dreaming Books
The City of Dreaming Books
by Walter Moers, John Brownjohn (Translator) 4 people voted »
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If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator) 4 people voted »
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
by Lewis Buzbee 4 people voted »
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84, Charing Cross Road
84, Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff 4 people voted »
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Housekeeping vs. The Dirt
Housekeeping vs. The Dirt
by Nick Hornby 4 people voted »
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The Jane Austen Book Club
The Jane Austen Book Club
by Karen Joy Fowler 4 people voted »
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, ...
by Nancy Pearl (Goodreads author) 3 people voted »
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The Big Over Easy
The Big Over Easy
by Jasper Fforde 3 people voted »
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Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Great Puzzles in Nin...
by John Sutherland 3 people voted »
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard 3 people voted »
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The Book on the Bookshelf
The Book on the Bookshelf
by Henry Petroski 2 people voted »
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A Voice from the Attic: Essays on the Art of Reading
A Voice from the Attic: Essays on the Art of Re...
by Robertson Davies 2 people voted »
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Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
by Michael Dirda 2 people voted »
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A Northern Light
A Northern Light
by Jennifer Donnelly 2 people voted »
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More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every M...
by Nancy Pearl (Goodreads author) 2 people voted »
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The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts
The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic an...
by David Lodge 2 people voted »
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The Book of Lost Things
The Book of Lost Things
by John Connolly 2 people voted »
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The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction
The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction
by Michaela Bushell, Paul Simpson 2 people voted »
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Literacy and Longing in L.A.
Literacy and Longing in L.A.
by Jennifer Kaufman, Karen Mack 2 people voted »
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501 Great Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of Literature
501 Great Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to the...
by Julian Patrick 2 people voted »
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Mister Pip
Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones 2 people voted »
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Shakespeare Wrote for Money
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
by Nick Hornby 2 people voted »
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Books: Over a Century of the Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events That Rocked the Literary World
Books: Over a Century of the Greatest Books, Wr...
by Lucy Daniel 2 people voted »
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The Camel Bookmobile
The Camel Bookmobile
by Masha Hamilton (Goodreads author) 2 people voted »
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Ex-Libris
Ex-Libris
by Ross King 2 people voted »
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A History of Reading
A History of Reading
by Alberto Manguel 2 people voted »
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Why Not Catch 21?: The Stories Behind the Titles
Why Not Catch 21?: The Stories Behind the Titles
by Gary Dexter 2 people voted »
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Words into Pictures: E. E. Cummings' Art Across Borders
Words into Pictures: E. E. Cummings' Art Across...
by Zeno Vernyik (Goodreads author) 1 person voted »
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Lethal Legacy: A Novel
Lethal Legacy: A Novel
by Linda Fairstein 1 person voted »
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The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
by Francis Spufford 1 person voted »
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Reading and Writing
Reading and Writing
by Robertson Davies 1 person voted »
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Now All We Need Is a Title: Famous Book Titles and How They Got That Way
Now All We Need Is a Title: Famous Book Titles ...
by Andre Bernard 1 person voted »
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An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World of Books
An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World...
by Wendy Werris 1 person voted »
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Steinbeck's Ghost
Steinbeck's Ghost
by Lewis Buzbee 1 person voted »
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic...
by Marshall McLuhan 1 person voted »
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Consciousness and the Novel
Consciousness and the Novel
by David Lodge 1 person voted »
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Inkheart
Inkheart
by Cornelia Funke 1 person voted »
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who L...
by Francine Prose 1 person voted »
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People of the Book
People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks 1 person voted »
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Classics
Classics
by Jane Gleeson-White 1 person voted »
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Pushcart's Complete Rotten Reviews & Rejections
Pushcart's Complete Rotten Reviews & Reject...
by Andre Bernard (Editor), Bill Henderson (Editor) 1 person voted »
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The Nag Hammadi Library
The Nag Hammadi Library
by James M. Robinson 1 person voted »
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The Practice of Writing
The Practice of Writing
by David Lodge 1 person voted »
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Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education
Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Li...
by Michael Dirda 1 person voted »
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The Rights of the Reader
The Rights of the Reader
by Daniel Pennac 1 person voted »
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On Writing
On Writing
by Stephen King 1 person voted »
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A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict
A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict
by John Baxter 1 person voted »
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One Hundred Great Books in Haiku
One Hundred Great Books in Haiku
by David M. Bader 1 person voted »
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Caring For Your Books
Caring For Your Books
by Michael Dirda 1 person voted »
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The Rough Guide to Classic Novels 1
The Rough Guide to Classic Novels 1
by Simon Mason 1 person voted »
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Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments
Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments
by Michael Dirda 1 person voted »
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The Book Borrower: A Novel
The Book Borrower: A Novel
by Alice Mattison 1 person voted »
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
by Jane Smiley 1 person voted »
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An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland
An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland
by Michael Dirda 1 person voted »
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House of Leaves
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski 1 person voted »
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble...
by A.J. Jacobs 1 person voted »
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The Modern Library
The Modern Library
by Carmen Callil, Colm Tóibín 1 person voted »
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Classics for Pleasure
Classics for Pleasure
by Michael Dirda 1 person voted »
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny ...
by Julie Powell 1 person voted »
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The Secret Scripture
The Secret Scripture
by Sebastian Barry 1 person voted »
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The Pleasure of the Text
The Pleasure of the Text
by Roland Barthes 1 person voted »
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The Field Guide
The Field Guide
by Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi 1 person voted »
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl 1 person voted »
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Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
by Sam Savage, Michael Mikolowski (Illustrator) 1 person voted »
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The "Big Read"
The "Big Read"
by Mark Harrison 1 person voted »
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The Ghost Writer
The Ghost Writer
by John Harwood 1 person voted »
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The House of Paper
The House of Paper
by Carlos María Domínguez 1 person voted »
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks 1 person voted »
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