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Books About Books

#1

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

2019 • 5 Readers • 401 pages • 3.5

#2

The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

1998 • 209 Readers • 200 pages • 3.8

#3

Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

2010 • 8 Readers • 399 pages • 3

#4

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

2016 • 4 Readers • 288 pages • 2.5

#5

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

2014 • 427 Readers • 270 pages • 3.9

#6

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

2012 • 53 Readers • 414 pages • 3.7

#7

The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade

2021 • 4 Readers • 3.5

#8

The Library Book

2018 • 284 Readers • 3.9

#9

The Cartographers

2022 • 396 Readers • 400 pages • 3.5

#10

The Diary of a Bookseller

#1 of 3 in The Diary of a Bookseller

2017 • 95 Readers • 310 pages • 4.1

#11

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

2024 • 22 Readers • 336 pages • 4.4

#12

The Book of Doors

2024 • 239 Readers • 13h 16m • 4.1

#13

Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

2022 • 40 Readers • 244 pages • 3.6