fiction about bookish things (bookselling, libraries, publishing, printing, conservation, etc), but crowd sourced and so cannot vouch for the appropriateness or quality of these!
novels about books Public
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The Binding by Bridget Collins
3 stars
Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It's a world in which …
sarah says: read in BookishBookClub June 2023
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The Forgers by Bradford Morrow
The murderer of Adam Diehl, a reclusive rare-book collector, begins to stalk Adam's sister's lover Will -- a convicted literary …
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It’s 1953, and Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, has entered …
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Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk
What holds more secrets in the library: the ancient books shelved in the stacks or the people who preserve them? …
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4 stars
What's the harm in a pseudonym? New York Times bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, …
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Little Village of Book Lovers by Nina George
In Nina George’s New York Times bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop, beloved literary apothecary Jean Perdu is inspired to create …
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The Archive of Feelings by Michael Hoffmann (trans.), Peter Stamm
Forty years ago—almost a lifetime—he confessed his love to a classmate and close friend, Franziska. Now, living in his late …
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by 青山美智子
4 stars
What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what …
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The blood of the covenant by Brent Monahan
As if performing an art restoration of a timeless masterpiece, Brent Monahan reveals the true image of the vampire trapped …
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That Night in the Library by Eva Jurczyk
On the night before graduation, seven students gather in the basement of their university's rare books library. They're not allowed …
sarah says: noting that we hated her first book and the Publishers Weekly quick take is not good either! "Jurczyk conjures a suitably creepy atmosphere, but her characters are thinly drawn, and the twist ending is more deflating than clever. This misses the mark."
