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The Shadow of the Wind (Paperback)
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (shelved 160 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.16 — 80,311 ratings — published 2001
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Paperback)
by Anne Fadiman (shelved 134 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,446 ratings — published 1998
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The Book Thief (Hardcover)
by Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author) (shelved 141 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.33 — 221,807 ratings — published 2005
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (Paperback)
by Nancy Pearl (Goodreads Author) (shelved 122 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,975 ratings — published 2003
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by Jasper Fforde (shelved 125 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.88 — 42,457 ratings — published 2000
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The Thirteenth Tale (Hardcover)
by Diane Setterfield (shelved 114 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.89 — 99,278 ratings — published 2006
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84, Charing Cross Road (Paperback)
by Helene Hanff (shelved 93 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.16 — 10,987 ratings — published 1970
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books (Paperback)
by Nicholas A. Basbanes (shelved 83 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,631 ratings — published 1995
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Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback)
by Ray Bradbury (shelved 92 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.87 — 383,741 ratings — published 1950
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (Hardcover)
by Allison Hoover Bartlett (shelved 83 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.34 — 6,491 ratings — published 2009
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More Book Lust: Recommended Reading For Every Mood, Moment, And Reason (Paperback)
by Nancy Pearl (Goodreads Author) (shelved 79 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,396 ratings — published 2005
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Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by Jasper Fforde (shelved 80 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,783 ratings — published 2004
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The Uncommon Reader (Hardcover)
by Alan Bennett (shelved 72 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,101 ratings — published 2007
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (Hardcover)
by Lewis Buzbee (Goodreads Author) (shelved 72 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,783 ratings — published 2006
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Inkheart (Inkheart, #1)
by Cornelia Funke (shelved 76 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.79 — 86,019 ratings — published 2003
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People of the Book (Hardcover)
by Geraldine Brooks (shelved 75 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.87 — 40,997 ratings — published 2008
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Hardcover)
by Annie Barrows (shelved 74 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.10 — 138,827 ratings — published 2008
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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading (Paperback)
by Sara Nelson (shelved 70 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.37 — 2,169 ratings — published
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 66 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.77 — 28,778 ratings — published 1998
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A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books (Paperback)
by Harold Rabinowitz (shelved 63 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,054 ratings — published 1999
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Hardcover)
by Peter Boxall (shelved 64 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,796 ratings — published
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The Polysyllabic Spree (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 61 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.70 — 5,548 ratings — published 2004
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The Library At Night (Hardcover)
by Alberto Manguel (shelved 55 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,762 ratings — published 2006
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Reading Lolita in Tehran (Paperback)
by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads Author) (shelved 54 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.42 — 58,674 ratings — published 2003
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The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
by Jasper Fforde (shelved 61 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,548 ratings — published 2003
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Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
by Jasper Fforde (shelved 58 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,966 ratings — published 2004
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A History of Reading (Paperback)
by Alberto Manguel (shelved 51 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,358 ratings — published 1996
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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home (Hardcover)
by Hill, Susan (shelved 50 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,032 ratings — published 2009
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by Francine Prose (shelved 45 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,689 ratings — published 2006
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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading (Hardcover)
by Nina Sankovitch (Goodreads Author) (shelved 46 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.53 — 4,541 ratings — published 2011
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books (Paperback)
by Maureen Corrigan (shelved 46 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.25 — 1,376 ratings — published 2005
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First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
by Jasper Fforde (shelved 49 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,216 ratings — published 2007
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Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books (Paperback)
by Paul Collins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 46 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,089 ratings — published 2003
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A Novel Bookstore (Paperback)
by Laurence Cossé (shelved 45 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,912 ratings — published 2009
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The City of Dreaming Books (Dreaming Books, #1) (Zamonia, #4)
by Walter Moers (shelved 48 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,850 ratings — published 2004
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by Thomas C. Foster (shelved 46 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,564 ratings — published 2003
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The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared (Hardcover)
by Alice Ozma (shelved 43 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,958 ratings — published 2011
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The Book on the Bookshelf (Paperback)
by Henry Petroski (shelved 41 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.57 — 970 ratings — published
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Books (Hardcover)
by Larry McMurtry (shelved 36 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.05 — 1,171 ratings — published 2008
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At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries (Hardcover)
by Estelle Ellis (shelved 36 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.03 — 557 ratings — published 1995
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The Club Dumas (Paperback)
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (shelved 43 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,126 ratings — published 1992
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The Angel's Game (Hardcover)
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (shelved 45 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.66 — 19,292 ratings — published 2008
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Book Crush: For Kids and Teens -Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest (Paperback)
by Nancy Pearl (Goodreads Author) (shelved 39 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.01 — 717 ratings — published
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How to Read a Book (Paperback)
by Mortimer Jerome Adler (shelved 36 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,443 ratings — published 1940
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How Reading Changed My Life (Library of Contemporary Thought)
by Anna Quindlen (shelved 39 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,771 ratings — published 2010
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Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World (Paperback)
by Lawrence Goldstone (Goodreads Author) (shelved 35 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.89 — 637 ratings — published 1997
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Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books (Paperback)
by Lynne Sharon Schwartz (shelved 36 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.44 — 587 ratings — published 1996
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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All (Hardcover)
by Marilyn Johnson (shelved 33 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.44 — 4,394 ratings — published 2010
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Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading For Travelers, Vagabonds, And Dreamers (Paperback)
by Nancy Pearl (Goodreads Author) (shelved 35 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.76 — 893 ratings — published 2010
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The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded (Paperback)
by Clifton Fadiman (shelved 35 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.86 — 522 ratings — published 1997
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