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Henry James: Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers
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Buried In Books (Bibliophile Mystery, #12)
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4.11 avg rating — 3,336 ratings
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Poems to Read to the Very Young
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4.35 avg rating — 249 ratings
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A Little House Reader
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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
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Literary Criticism, Vol 2: French Writers / Other European Writers / Prefaces to the New York Edition
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Becoming a Writer
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The Memory of Mankind: The Story of Libraries Since the Dawn of History
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Don Heinrich Tolzmann (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Once Upon a Spine (Bibliophile Mystery, #11)
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Kate Carlisle (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 3,241 ratings
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For Reading Out Loud: Planning and Practice
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Laura Wilder of Mansfield
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A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries (Volume 64) (California Studies in Food and Culture)
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Books of a Feather (Bibliophile Mystery, #10)
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Kate Carlisle (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
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Murder Misread (Maggie Ryan and Nick O'Connor, #7)
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P.M. Carlson (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Little House Country: A Photo Guide to the Home Sites of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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William Anderson (Text)
4.36 avg rating — 50 ratings
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A History of Children's Books in 100 Books
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Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Ripped From the Pages (Bibliophile Mystery, #9)
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Kate Carlisle (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 3,584 ratings
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Mystery Reader's Walking Guide: London
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The Story of the Wilders
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Around the World in 80 Books
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The Book Stops Here (Bibliophile Mystery, #8)
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Kate Carlisle (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 3,993 ratings
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Murder at the Library of Congress (Capital Crimes, #16)
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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3.95 avg rating — 19,967 ratings
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Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
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Krista Halverson (Editor)
4.61 avg rating — 608 ratings
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A Cookbook Conspiracy (Bibliophile Mystery #7)
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Kate Carlisle (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 4,170 ratings
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Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without
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3.30 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
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Wendy McClure (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 8,014 ratings
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Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
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Jess McHugh (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 437 ratings
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On Writing
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Pages of Sin (Bibliophile Mystery, #4.5)
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Kate Carlisle (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 1,874 ratings
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Type Riders: North Carolina Bookmobiles of the Outer Banks, Tidewater and Sandhills, Photographs, 1939-1960
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Literature and Western Man
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life (South Dakota Biography Series)
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Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
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Peril in Paperback (Bibliophile Mystery, #6)
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Kate Carlisle (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 4,205 ratings
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The Book Stops Here: New Directions for Bookmobile Service
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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
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4.07 avg rating — 8,568 ratings
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A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters
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4.09 avg rating — 475 ratings
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One Book in the Grave (Bibliophile Mystery, #5)
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Kate Carlisle (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 4,735 ratings
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Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile
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I Remember Laura: Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Southern Homes and Plan Books: The Architectural Legacy of Leila Ross Wilburn
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Murder under Cover (Bibliophile Mystery #4)
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Kate Carlisle (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 5,129 ratings
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Don and the Book Bus
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Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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4.12 avg rating — 6,001 ratings
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The Lies That Bind (Bibliophile Mystery, #3)
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Kate Carlisle (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 5,618 ratings
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Books and Beaux
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2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915 (Little House, #11)
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3.85 avg rating — 4,815 ratings
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The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
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3.63 avg rating — 482 ratings
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If Books Could Kill (Bibliophile Mystery, #2)
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Kate Carlisle (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 6,903 ratings
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With a High Heart
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3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Hooked On Books
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Master Skylark: A Story of Shakespeare's Time
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3.87 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Collecting
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Of Books and Bagpipes (Scottish Bookshop Mystery, #2)
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Paige Shelton (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 4,416 ratings
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The Quest for Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome
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Remarkable Books: The World's Most Beautiful and Historic Works
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The Making of an American's Library
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Murder at the Frankfurt Book Fair
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The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street
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Self-portrait: Book people picture themselves
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All Booked Up
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Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe
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The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
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4.24 avg rating — 1,836 ratings
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Death of an Avid Reader (Kate Shackleton, #6)
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Frances Brody (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 2,263 ratings
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The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger's Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare's First Folio
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3.92 avg rating — 947 ratings
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Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
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Amanda Oliver (Goodreads Author)
3.24 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
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The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age
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Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction
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Gabrielle Moss (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 4,127 ratings
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Miss Zukas and the Library Murders (Miss Zukas, #1)
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Jo Dereske (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,604 ratings
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The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare (Cat Who..., #7)
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Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences
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Books! Books! Books! Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library
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The Story of the World's Literature
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A Writer's Britain
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The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss
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Literary Trails: British Writers in Their Landscapes
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Books of the Dead
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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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