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30 New Reads for Very Bookish People
While all Goodreads members love books (or so we assume, otherwise this would be a weird way to spend your time!), there's a dedicated subset of readers who especially love books about books.
Think metafiction that features books within books, heartfelt nonfiction about the power of reading, historical novels about courageous librarians, romance writing about romance writers, and even the occasional mystery or horror plot that hinges on the genre savviness of bookish people.
If this sort of reading appeals to you, we've collected a catalog of books about books in a variety of genres, all published since January 2020. Scroll over the book covers to learn more about each title, and be sure to add the books that pique your interest to your Want to Read shelf!
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Do you love reading books about books? Which of the titles above catches your eye? Let's talk books in the comments!
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Books about books! Can it get any better?📚😀
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Sue wrote: "Books about books! Can it get any better?📚😀"No, no it cannot, Sue! 💕
Laura wrote: "I love books about books so much, I have a Goodreads shelf for them! :)"
Thats a brilliant idea.
Thats a brilliant idea.
Laura wrote: "I love books about books so much, I have a Goodreads shelf for them! :)"I have a shelf like that too, but so far I only have seven books on it. This list (along with your shelf) has given me some good ideas for others to add.
Laura wrote: "I love books about books so much, I have a Goodreads shelf for them! :)"I have a shelf that's (loosely) for books about libraries.
I feel very hungry after reading a synopsis of each book. It's a great list.
The Plot! I went to Anchorage for my birthday this week, and while there popped in at a bookstore. My husband said I could pick any book in the store and that’s the one I went with. It could’ve been sleep deprivation because the sun doesn’t really set this time of year in Alaska so it’s pretty much day all the time! But regardless, I’m really excited to read it!
Laura wrote: "I love books about books so much, I have a Goodreads shelf for them! :)"So do I! Great minds, thinking alike and all that...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Heather R wrote: "The Plot! I went to Anchorage for my birthday this week, and while there popped in at a bookstore. My husband said I could pick any book in the store and that’s the one I went with. It could’ve bee..."Only one book? I don't think I could leave a bookstore with less than a bag full.
I really wish there was a way to save these pages as well as save lists - this is such a fun genre!
Laura wrote: "I love books about books so much, I have a Goodreads shelf for them! :)"I've got that shelf too lol 😄💕
I as a book lover always want more out of books, someone to understand. And books about books can do that!
The storied life of AJ fickry is also a great one to read. A true ode to books 📚😍
I love this collection of books on books. My favorites so far is Louise Erdrich's 'The Sentence' and Matt Haig's 'The Midnight Library'. Really looking forward to reading these books.
You missed The End of Life Book Club! Loved it.
"The Starless Sea" is incredibly not on this list. One of the best books about books I've ever read.
*dramatic voice* my time is here~I am astonished that none of the books from Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series made it on the list.The opening sentence of description for Book #1, The Eyre Affair: "Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously."
The main character, Thursday Next, is a "book detective"-- she literally enters books and speaks with their characters in her crime solving work (like the scene from Julie Andrew's Mary Poppins where they enter the chalk painting, but. literary.)
That's the just tip of the iceberg. You're throw into the deep end from the first page with the worldbuilding, the humor is simultaneously dry and zany, and it's all delightfully bonkers. I love so many individual books that somehow it translates into having very few favorite authors, but I can safely say Mr. Fforde is a favorite author of mine. There are seven books in the series (so far), and novels outside of Thursday Next that are startlingly unique. Please check them out!
Even as a child, I loved bookshops and a good library. Other kids would throw a temper tantrum in Toys are Us, I would throw one at a Barnes and Noble shop. I would hang on to a card catalog as my parents were dragging me out of the town library,beacause it was about to close.I do it now still. Plan vacations around book shops near the hotel. Shop at big box stores that had larger book areas. Eat my breakfast in a book store. In my heart and my head I'm screaming "don't close, there's another shelf to check out".
TMI ?
Add “The 10000 Doors of January” to the mental list, too!
I was going to mention The Eyre Affair too! It's so good!
I recently read The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland and it definitely belongs on this list!
Let's not forget the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde! Rip-roaring and side-splitting thriller ripoffs so full of literary puns, inside jokes, pastiche and fan-fiction that it's surprising that Fforde manages to wedge any story in at all... but oh boy does he ever.
