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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
by (shelved 1184 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.74 — 178,485 ratings — published 2012
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 1080 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.27 — 481,670 ratings — published 2001
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1031 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.99 — 207,122 ratings — published 2014
The Book Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 949 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,896,636 ratings — published 2005
The Thirteenth Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 797 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.96 — 277,546 ratings — published 2006
84, Charing Cross Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 696 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,565 ratings — published 1970
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 665 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,740,862 ratings — published 1953
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 657 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.90 — 85,461 ratings — published 2018
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 652 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.13 — 11,410 ratings — published 1998
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 636 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.17 — 627,740 ratings — published 2008
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 601 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.87 — 125,055 ratings — published 2001
The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1)
by (shelved 503 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.85 — 54,536 ratings — published 2016
The Uncommon Reader (Hardcover)
by (shelved 498 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.78 — 39,533 ratings — published 2007
The Little Paris Bookshop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 491 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.51 — 84,236 ratings — published 2013
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 474 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,647 ratings — published 2018
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (Paperback)
by (shelved 441 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.56 — 36,225 ratings — published 2013
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 436 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.02 — 126,625 ratings — published 2008
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
by (shelved 431 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.88 — 382,300 ratings — published 2003
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.61 — 122,101 ratings — published 2003
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 367 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.76 — 8,399 ratings — published 2017
The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1)
by (shelved 363 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.73 — 44,020 ratings — published 2015
The End of Your Life Book Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 358 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.80 — 51,386 ratings — published 2012
The Diary of a Bookseller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 355 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.77 — 16,513 ratings — published 2017
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 349 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.44 — 11,534 ratings — published 2009
Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,497 ratings — published 2003
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 101,706 ratings — published 1998
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 343 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.79 — 26,420 ratings — published 2017
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops (Hardcover)
by (shelved 342 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.78 — 23,491 ratings — published 2012
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 326 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 60,202 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 322 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.60 — 31,921 ratings — published 2015
The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
by (shelved 311 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.93 — 122,660 ratings — published 2008
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 309 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.85 — 103,155 ratings — published 2019
Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 296 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,502 ratings — published 2009
The Bookman’s Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 292 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,289 ratings — published 2013
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by (shelved 291 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.14 — 49,443 ratings — published 2002
The Book of Lost Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 291 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.93 — 73,882 ratings — published 2006
Book Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 289 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,057 ratings — published 2019
The Bookshop of Yesterdays (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 278 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.65 — 21,062 ratings — published 2018
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,078 ratings — published 1995
Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 274 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,668 ratings — published 2018
The Library at Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 270 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,350 ratings — published 2006
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.23 — 116,382 ratings — published 2020
Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)
by (shelved 263 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.97 — 23,324 ratings — published 2015
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 263 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,470 ratings — published 2002
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 260 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,747 ratings — published 2017
The Bookshop (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 255 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.29 — 16,630 ratings — published 1978
How to Find Love in a Bookshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.89 — 17,136 ratings — published 2016
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.05 — 76,756 ratings — published 1979
The Bookshop Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,041 ratings — published 2014
How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as books-about-books)
avg rating 3.66 — 23,402 ratings — published 2003
“Universes were organized on the shelves according to my will. I exerted absolute control according to my own order and rules, putting Tolstoy's essays on the same shelf as Dostoyevsky's Crime And Punishment and a yellowed copy of Othello next to King Lear.
Soon I could guess the age of a book just by its scent and understand a book's core from a quick glance at the table of contents, like a farmer who could tell the maturity and sweetness of a fruit from just its colour and the texture of its skin.”
― The Investigation
Soon I could guess the age of a book just by its scent and understand a book's core from a quick glance at the table of contents, like a farmer who could tell the maturity and sweetness of a fruit from just its colour and the texture of its skin.”
― The Investigation
“don’t rush though: your eyes need time to taste. your soul needs room to bloom.”
― How to Read a Book
― How to Read a Book
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