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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
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Fahrenheit 451
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Matilda
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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The Thirteenth Tale
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Diane Setterfield (Goodreads Author)
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
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Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 440,697 ratings
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 136,647 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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The Neverending Story
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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The Princess Bride
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The Name of the Rose
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Northanger Abbey
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
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Robin Sloan (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 215,069 ratings
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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The Uncommon Reader
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3.73 avg rating — 59,059 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 313,703 ratings
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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The Historian
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 2,986,119 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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Gabrielle Zevin (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 351,486 ratings
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The Reader
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Possession
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3.90 avg rating — 83,757 ratings
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People of the Book
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 154,964 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,440,838 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,638,563 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 55,887 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
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4.22 avg rating — 252,687 ratings
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The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
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4.02 avg rating — 181,118 ratings
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The Book of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things, #1)
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John Connolly (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 85,050 ratings
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The Club Dumas
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3.81 avg rating — 44,290 ratings
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,326,314 ratings
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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3.87 avg rating — 252,332 ratings
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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3.81 avg rating — 2,842 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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3.66 avg rating — 139,451 ratings
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The Jane Austen Book Club
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Karen Joy Fowler (Goodreads Author)
3.10 avg rating — 70,951 ratings
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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3.80 avg rating — 197,818 ratings
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The English Patient
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3.86 avg rating — 138,317 ratings
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
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Nancy Pearl (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 3,650 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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4.43 avg rating — 4,407,982 ratings
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The Blind Assassin
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 162,342 ratings
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The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy, #1)
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Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 549,055 ratings
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The Forgotten Garden
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Kate Morton (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 236,466 ratings
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The Polysyllabic Spree
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3.73 avg rating — 7,031 ratings
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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
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3.39 avg rating — 3,044 ratings
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House of Leaves
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Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 195,357 ratings
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
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Lewis Buzbee (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 2,837 ratings
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The History of Love
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3.92 avg rating — 139,991 ratings
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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4.19 avg rating — 211,161 ratings
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The End of Your Life Book Club
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Will Schwalbe (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 55,717 ratings
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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3.64 avg rating — 67,500 ratings
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The Dante Club (The Dante Club, #1)
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Matthew Pearl (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 42,613 ratings
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
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4.44 avg rating — 33,525 ratings
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The World According to Garp
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 237,270 ratings
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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Inkspell (Inkworld, #2)
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Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 134,356 ratings
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Inkdeath (Inkworld, #3)
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Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 93,110 ratings
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The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime, #1)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 34,380 ratings
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The End of Mr. Y
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Scarlett Thomas (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 18,263 ratings
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A History of Reading
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Alberto Manguel (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 5,447 ratings
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Mister Pip
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3.68 avg rating — 23,929 ratings
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A Northern Light
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Jennifer Donnelly (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 45,631 ratings
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My Name Is Red
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3.87 avg rating — 60,676 ratings
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More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
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Nancy Pearl (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 1,698 ratings
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Among Others
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Jo Walton (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 25,665 ratings
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Invisible Cities
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
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Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus, #1)
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Foucault’s Pendulum
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Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway, #1)
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The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus, #2)
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The Library at Night
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Alberto Manguel (Goodreads Author)
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
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Francine Prose (Goodreads Author)
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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Pale Fire
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
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Comme un roman
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
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The Bookseller of Kabul
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The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #3)
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Angle of Repose
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Housekeeping vs. the Dirt
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The Children's Book
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The Library of Babel
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The House of Paper
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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
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Allison Hoover Bartlett (Goodreads Author)
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A Widow for One Year
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
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Out of Africa
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The Library Book
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Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author)
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The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #1)
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The Bookshop
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A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict
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Nov 19, 2009 10:27PM
Great list....Although I wish the list were named "NOVELS about books...." Anyway, I thought the Thirteenth Tale was absolutely fascinating and hope Setterfield completes another novel (and maybe it will also be tribute to the love of reading, like this one was).
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This list left out the Bookman series of John Dunning. However, this is one of the better lists on this site.
This is a good list, and the title made me laugh, 'cause my mother and I have a shelf that's been christened just so. We actually own many novels mentioned here :D
Oh! But where oh where has the creator gone?
The Shadow of the Wind is a book about books. It might be a good one to add. One of the few books I'm thinking about rereading!
I'm very pleased to find The Neverending Story on this list, it's a fantastic tale.
I've removed #252 Isn't It Pretty To Think So? which has nothing to do in this splendid list.
That title has been spamed around on lots of lists.
I know, we have been deleting from all of them.
#733 The Uncommon Reader is a duplicate.
Vicki wrote: "#733 The Uncommon Reader is a duplicate."Shouldn't be anymore ... (I had the system perform a duplicate check)
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