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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (Paperback)
by Nancy Pearl (Goodreads author) (shelved 58 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,420 ratings — published 2003
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The Shadow of the Wind (Paperback)
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (shelved 52 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,357 ratings — published 2001
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by Jasper Fforde (shelved 51 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,007 ratings — published 2001
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Paperback)
by Anne Fadiman (shelved 51 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,525 ratings — published 1998
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The Thirteenth Tale (Hardcover)
by Diane Setterfield (shelved 45 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.91 — 34,171 ratings — published 2006
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The Book Thief (Hardcover)
by Markus Zusak (shelved 44 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.36 — 58,507 ratings — published 2005
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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading (Paperback)
by Sara Nelson (shelved 38 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.34 — 1,011 ratings — published 2003
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More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (Paperback)
by Nancy Pearl (Goodreads author) (shelved 36 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.98 — 636 ratings — published 2005
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Hardcover)
by Peter Boxall (shelved 36 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.68 — 842 ratings — published 2006
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Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback)
by Ray Bradbury (shelved 34 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.89 — 113,729 ratings — published 1953
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84, Charing Cross Road (Paperback)
by Helene Hanff (shelved 34 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,912 ratings — published 1970
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads author) (shelved 30 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.40 — 28,566 ratings — published 2003
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People of the Book (Hardcover)
by Geraldine Brooks (shelved 30 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 15,539 ratings — published 2008
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Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by Jasper Fforde (shelved 30 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,587 ratings — published 2002
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The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
by Jasper Fforde (shelved 28 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,195 ratings — published 2003
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Inkheart (Inkheart, #1)
by Cornelia Funke (shelved 27 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.89 — 25,437 ratings — published 2003
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The Uncommon Reader: A Novella (Hardcover)
by Alan Bennett (shelved 27 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,253 ratings — published 2007
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The Polysyllabic Spree (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 26 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,118 ratings — published 2004
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books (Paperback)
by Nicholas A. Basbanes (shelved 26 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.07 — 521 ratings — published 1995
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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 26 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.86 — 310 ratings — published 1999
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Hardcover)
by Mary Ann Shaffer (shelved 25 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,958 ratings — published 2007
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books (Paperback)
by Maureen Corrigan (shelved 24 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.21 — 683 ratings — published 2005
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Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
by Jasper Fforde (shelved 24 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,417 ratings — published 2004
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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 23 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.74 — 10,364 ratings — published 1998
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (Hardcover)
by Lewis Buzbee (shelved 21 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 634 ratings — published 2006
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A History of Reading (Paperback)
by Alberto Manguel (shelved 21 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.03 — 488 ratings — published 1996
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The Club Dumas (Paperback)
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (shelved 20 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,262 ratings — published 1993
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Great Books (Paperback)
by David Denby (shelved 20 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.66 — 270 ratings — published 1996
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First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
by Jasper Fforde (shelved 19 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,208 ratings — published 2003
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The Angel's Game (Hardcover)
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (shelved 19 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.68 — 6,655 ratings — published 2008
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Housekeeping vs. The Dirt (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 18 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,471 ratings — published 2006
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The Library at Night (Hardcover)
by Alberto Manguel (shelved 18 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.01 — 682 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 17 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,835 ratings — published 2003
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Sixpence House: Lost in A Town Of Books (Paperback)
by Paul S. Collins (shelved 17 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.73 — 453 ratings — published 2003
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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 17 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.07 — 373 ratings — published 2007
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How to Read a Book (Paperback)
by Mortimer J. Adler (shelved 17 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,221 ratings — published 1972
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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 (Goodreads author) (shelved 16 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,834 ratings — published 2009
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The Jane Austen Book Club (Paperback)
by Karen Joy Fowler (shelved 16 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 2.70 — 14,740 ratings — published 2004
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.)
by Francine Prose (shelved 16 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,621 ratings — published 2006
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Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy (Paperback)
by Nicholas A. Basbanes (shelved 16 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.10 — 183 ratings — published 2001
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The Book on the Bookshelf (Paperback)
by Henry Petroski (shelved 16 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.44 — 293 ratings — published 1999
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (Hardcover)
by Pierre Bayard (shelved 16 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.35 — 881 ratings — published 2007
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The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded (Paperback)
by Clifton Fadiman (shelved 15 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.84 — 174 ratings — published 1997
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At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries (Hardcover)
by Estelle Ellis (shelved 15 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.09 — 181 ratings — published 1995
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Books: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by Larry McMurtry (shelved 15 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 2.96 — 579 ratings — published 2008
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Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World (Paperback)
by Lawrence Goldstone (shelved 14 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.85 — 212 ratings — published 1997
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1001 Books for Every Mood: A Bibliophile's Guide to Unwinding, Misbehaving, Forgiving, Celebrating, Commiserating (Paperback)
by Hallie Ephron (Goodreads author) (shelved 13 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.70 — 262 ratings — published 2007
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (Paperback)
by A.J. Jacobs (shelved 13 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,087 ratings — published 2004
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (Hardcover)
by Jane Smiley (shelved 13 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.77 — 362 ratings — published 2005
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How Reading Changed My Life (Library of Contemporary Thought)
by Anna Quindlen (shelved 13 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.68 — 652 ratings — published 1998
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