The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians

True Stories of the Magic of Reading

By
James Patterson
James Patterson,
Matt Eversmann
Matt Eversmann
2024 • 335 pages

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42 books

Owned

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Read In 2024

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I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
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The One-Cent Magenta: Inside the Quest to Own the Most Valuable Stamp in the World

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Quest

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The Great Failure
Holes
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The Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself
Hometown Tales
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Books About Books

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Better Than Life
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Beowulf on the Beach
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Inspiration

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Challenge

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Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
The Shift
Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World
I Dare Me
Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone
Yes Man
Julie & Julia

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Relationships

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The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century
Like Jake and Me
The Help
Still Alice
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Shortcomings
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name

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Reading

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The End of Your Life Book Club
You've GOT to Read This Book!

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Libraries

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The Dewey Decimal System of Love
Here lies the librarian
The Case of the Missing Books
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
Mr. Dixon Disappears
The Library at Night

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Purpose

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The World's Poorest President Speaks Out
Infinite Country
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Main Street / Babbitt
The System Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

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Imagination

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Off to See the Sea
Shy Willow
This Is Still Not a Book
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The Tree in Me
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

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Nonfiction Gen

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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Terrorism: A History
Danse Macabre
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
J.R.R. Tolkien
Columbine

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Library Tbr

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The Virgin Suicides
The Ghost Tree
Horseman
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World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things

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Shorts

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The Old Order
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Complete Stories
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

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Metalit

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The Swerve
Ella Minnow Pea
The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
A Gentle Madness

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Library

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The Stupidest Angel
Juliet, Naked
Bridge To Terabithia
The Good Earth
Frightful's Mountain
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
The Hunger Games

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Audiobook

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Stardust
The Lucky One
City of Bones
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

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Five Stars

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Girls in Trucks
Dead until Dark
Levende død i Dallas
Klub død
Dead as a Doornail
You Suck: A Love Story
A Thousand Splendid Suns

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2024 Reads

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Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
The Sun and Her Flowers
Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron
The Girl from the Sea
Fourth Wing
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Have Ebook

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Jane Doe
The Wife Upstairs
The Silent Patient
Sharp Objects
Into the Darkest Corner
The Good Girl
Pretty Girls
The Last Mrs. Parrish

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