A Great Big, Huge, Not Very Small at All List of Books About Books

A couple weeks back, a Riot reader who goes under the alias Anne Boleyn asked the Book Riot community to recommend books about books. She didn’t specify fiction or non, so we left it open, and HOO BOY. If ever there were a request in y’all’s wheelhouse, it’s this one! Here’s what you shouted out in the comments and on Facebook and Twitter. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Inkheart Trilogy by Cornelia Funke The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley In Quest of the Perfect Book by William Dana Orcutt 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Among Others by Jo Walton Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Breath of God by Jeffrey Small O, Juliet by Robin Maxwell Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman Library of Shadows by Mikkel Birkegaard The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco The World According to Garp by John Irving Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume edited by Jennifer O’Connell Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife by Sam Savage City of the Dreaming Books by Walter Moers Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife by Francine Prose Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose American Pastoral by Philip Roth The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby Imagined London by Anna Quindlen A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes Ex-Libris by Ross King The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber The Bookman mystery series by John Dunning Kensington Gardens by Rodrigo Fresan Possession by A.S. Byatt The Pagemaster by David Kirschner The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Alison Hoover Bartlett Books by Larry McMurtry Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen Ruined by Reading by Lynne Sharon Schwartz Shelf Life by Gary Paulson A Reader’s Delight by Noel Perrin Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co. by Jeremy Mercer What the Dormouse Said: Lessons for Grown-ups from Children’s Books collected by Amy Gash The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski Behind the Bestsellers by Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn Hit Lit by James W. Hall