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Mobile Library
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3.65 avg rating — 1,765 ratings
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Anne of the Library-on-the-Hill
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The coming of the book: The impact of printing 1450-1800
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3.96 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Libraries
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4.19 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Our Library
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3.78 avg rating — 513 ratings
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| 503 |
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Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels: in English Language Selection, 1946-1987
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4.06 avg rating — 93 ratings
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| 503 |
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A Kind of Paradise
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4.18 avg rating — 1,075 ratings
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| 503 |
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Dewey's Christmas at the Library
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4.04 avg rating — 554 ratings
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| 503 |
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How the Library (Not the Prince) Saved Rapunzel
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Wendy Meddour (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 307 ratings
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| 510 |
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The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
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Kelly Harms (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 99,281 ratings
score: 82,
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| 510 |
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The Forgotten Book
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3.74 avg rating — 4,471 ratings
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| 510 |
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Books In My Baggage: Adventures In Reading And Collecting
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4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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| 510 |
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Gates to Tomorrow: An Introduction to Science Fiction
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3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Librarianist
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3.41 avg rating — 22,832 ratings
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| 510 |
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Good Books for Bad Children: The Genius of Ursula Nordstrom
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Beth Kephart (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 349 ratings
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| 516 |
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Stoker's Manuscript
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3.49 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
score: 81,
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| 516 |
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Reflections: On the Magic of Writing
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4.32 avg rating — 953 ratings
score: 81,
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| 516 |
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Library Mouse: A World to Explore (Library Mouse #3)
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3.73 avg rating — 600 ratings
score: 81,
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| 516 |
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Fantasy: The 100 Best Books
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3.93 avg rating — 72 ratings
score: 81,
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| 516 |
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You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
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3.84 avg rating — 223 ratings
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| 516 |
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Something Queer at the Library (Something Queer Mysteries, Book 3)
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Elizabeth Levy (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 194 ratings
score: 81,
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| 516 |
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Die Buchspringer
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3.71 avg rating — 13,249 ratings
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| 523 |
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Under the Covers and between the Sheets: Facts and Trivia about the World's Greatest Books
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3.61 avg rating — 248 ratings
score: 80,
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| 523 |
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The Fox in the Library
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3.61 avg rating — 386 ratings
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| 523 |
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Paris by the Book
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Liam Callanan (Goodreads Author)
3.15 avg rating — 5,709 ratings
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| 523 |
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Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library!
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3.99 avg rating — 7,811 ratings
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| 523 |
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The Christmas Book Flood
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4.17 avg rating — 792 ratings
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| 528 |
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Love Overdue
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3.39 avg rating — 1,900 ratings
score: 79,
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| 528 |
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How to Write a Book Review: A Template for Reviewing Books
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Sarah S. Davis (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 52 ratings
score: 79,
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| 528 |
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From Little Houses to Little Women: Revisiting a Literary Childhood
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Nancy McCabe (Goodreads Author)
3.37 avg rating — 101 ratings
score: 79,
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| 528 |
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
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4.02 avg rating — 181,306 ratings
score: 79,
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| 532 |
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Lost for Words
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Lorelei Mathias (Goodreads Author)
3.14 avg rating — 219 ratings
score: 78,
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| 532 |
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The Silver Bough
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3.49 avg rating — 975 ratings
score: 78,
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| 532 |
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Into the Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Books, Reading, and the World
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Alberto Manguel (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 224 ratings
score: 78,
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| 532 |
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Miss Buncle's Book (Miss Buncle #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 13,513 ratings
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| 532 |
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A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres
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4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 78,
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| 532 |
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The Library: A Fragile History
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3.83 avg rating — 1,870 ratings
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| 532 |
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Book Love
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Debbie Tung (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 22,087 ratings
score: 78,
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| 539 |
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Librarian's Night Before Christmas
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3.86 avg rating — 403 ratings
score: 77,
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| 539 |
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Old Farts
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Vera Nazarian (Goodreads Author)
3.02 avg rating — 60 ratings
score: 77,
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| 539 |
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First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen
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Charlie Lovett (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 6,631 ratings
score: 77,
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| 539 |
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Our Lady of Darkness
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3.60 avg rating — 2,381 ratings
score: 77,
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| 539 |
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Bookscout
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3.93 avg rating — 204 ratings
score: 77,
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| 539 |
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Nancy Runs the Bookmobile
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3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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| 539 |
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The Woman Who Died a Lot (Thursday Next, #7)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 14,983 ratings
score: 77,
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| 546 |
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Librarian on the Roof! A True Story
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M.G. King (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 564 ratings
score: 76,
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| 546 |
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The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
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3.62 avg rating — 1,149 ratings
score: 76,
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| 546 |
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Horror: 100 Best Books
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Stephen Jones (Editor)
4.18 avg rating — 366 ratings
score: 76,
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| 546 |
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The Darkling Bride
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Laura Andersen (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 4,776 ratings
score: 76,
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| 546 |
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The I Wonder Bookstore
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4.35 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
score: 76,
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| 546 |
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Aspects of the Novel
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3.80 avg rating — 4,888 ratings
score: 76,
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| 546 |
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Der geheime Bericht über den Dichter Goethe, der eine Prüfung auf einer arabischen Insel bestand
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3.76 avg rating — 76 ratings
score: 76,
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| 553 |
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The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
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3.74 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
score: 75,
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| 553 |
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Alfred A Knopf 1915 - 2015 , A Century of Publishing
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 75,
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| 553 |
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The Tiny Hero of Ferny Creek Library
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Linda Bailey (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 462 ratings
score: 75,
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| 553 |
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100 Best Books for Children
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4.08 avg rating — 288 ratings
score: 75,
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| 557 |
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I Murdered My Library
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3.76 avg rating — 879 ratings
score: 74,
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| 557 |
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A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year
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3.79 avg rating — 384 ratings
score: 74,
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| 557 |
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The Ladies' Lending Library
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2.62 avg rating — 717 ratings
score: 74,
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| 557 |
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One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 20,019 ratings
score: 74,
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| 557 |
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A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
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Doris Seale (Editor)
4.47 avg rating — 129 ratings
score: 74,
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| 562 |
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Stuart At the Library
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3.56 avg rating — 100 ratings
score: 73,
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| 562 |
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The Book of Legendary Lands
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4.12 avg rating — 1,503 ratings
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| 562 |
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Dames, Dolls and Delinquents: A Collector's Guide to Sexy Pulp Fiction Paperbacks
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4.05 avg rating — 58 ratings
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| 562 |
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The Mariah Delany Lending Library Disaster
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3.83 avg rating — 36 ratings
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| 562 |
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Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer: A Golden Treasury of Classic Treats
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4.18 avg rating — 181 ratings
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| 567 |
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The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
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3.90 avg rating — 263 ratings
score: 72,
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| 567 |
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The Voice That Thunders
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4.39 avg rating — 159 ratings
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| 567 |
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Over My Dead Body: The Sensational Age of the American Paperback: 1945-1955
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3.79 avg rating — 48 ratings
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| 567 |
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Mystery of the Bewitched Bookmobile
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| 571 |
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The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
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3.93 avg rating — 178 ratings
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| 571 |
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The Infinite Library
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Kane X. Faucher (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 65 ratings
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| 571 |
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How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children's Books
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4.07 avg rating — 535 ratings
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Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels : An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984
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3.87 avg rating — 223 ratings
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| 571 |
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The Girl He Used to Know
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Tracey Garvis Graves (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 51,997 ratings
score: 71,
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| 576 |
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Revolution in Print: The Press in France, 1775-1800
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Robert Darnton (Editor)
3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 70,
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| 576 |
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The Little Clan
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Iris Martin Cohen (Goodreads Author)
2.76 avg rating — 540 ratings
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| 578 |
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The Witches' Hammer
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3.40 avg rating — 424 ratings
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| 578 |
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Sparrow
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4.10 avg rating — 2,412 ratings
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| 578 |
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Due or Die (Library Lover's Mystery, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 8,178 ratings
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| 581 |
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The Rejected Writers' Book Club (Southlea Bay, #1)
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Suzanne Kelman (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 3,648 ratings
score: 68,
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| 581 |
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Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind
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4.08 avg rating — 822 ratings
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| 583 |
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The Sorrow Proper
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3.89 avg rating — 277 ratings
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| 583 |
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Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
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Michiko Kakutani (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 1,926 ratings
score: 67,
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| 585 |
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Scribes, Script, and Books: The Book Arts from Antiquity to the Renaissance
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3.89 avg rating — 53 ratings
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| 585 |
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Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness
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3.51 avg rating — 603 ratings
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| 587 |
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Book Business: Publishing Past, Present and Future
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3.49 avg rating — 425 ratings
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| 587 |
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The Goddess of Small Victories
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3.53 avg rating — 788 ratings
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| 589 |
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The Book: The Life Story of a Technology (Greenwood Technographies)
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3.51 avg rating — 129 ratings
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| 589 |
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The Geographer's Library
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3.04 avg rating — 3,377 ratings
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| 589 |
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Killer Librarian (Killer Librarian #1)
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3.39 avg rating — 1,484 ratings
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| 592 |
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From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books
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3.92 avg rating — 958 ratings
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Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library
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Chris Paling (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 809 ratings
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| 592 |
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The Foyles Bookshop Girls (The Foyles Girls #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 1,483 ratings
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| 592 |
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Quiet Neighbors
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Catriona McPherson (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 2,045 ratings
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| 596 |
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The Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age
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3.29 avg rating — 187 ratings
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| 596 |
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The Bookshop Mystery (Girl Talk, #30)
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3.72 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
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4.19 avg rating — 4,065 ratings
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| 599 |
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Shark in the Library! (My First Graphic Novel)
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3.41 avg rating — 46 ratings
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| 599 |
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The Little Bookshop of Promises
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Debbie Macomber (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 3,623 ratings
score: 61,
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773 books ·
376 voters ·
list created September 12th, 2011
by Kristina Aziz (votes) .
Tags:
book, books, books-about-books, bookstore, bookstores, fiction, libraries, library, non-fiction, nonfiction
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