53+ of Your Favorite Books About Books
This giveaway is sponsored by The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald.
Broken Wheel, Iowa has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her book-loving pen pal. When she arrives, however, she finds Amy’s funeral guests just leaving. The residents of Broken Wheel are happy to look after their bewildered visitor—not much else to do in a small town that’s almost beyond repair. They just never imagined that she’d start a bookstore. Or that books could bring them together—and change everything.
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The only thing better than reading books is reading books about books! Writers are more often then not also readers, so it’s no surprise that some of the most heart-warming and dear books to the readerly community are ones about the love we all share for stories. Books about books and reading remind us of the magical ways books can shape our lives, and it’s a theme that defies genre borders. There are mysteries about books, sci-fi about books, romances about books, and more.
Here’s a nice big round-up of over 53 of your favorite books about books. If we missed any, as always, drop ’em in the comments!
84 Charing Cross by Helene Hanff
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
Bestseller by Olivia Goldsmith
Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
The Bookstore by Deborah Meyler
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
First Impressions by Charlie Lovett
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
How To Be A Heroine by Samantha Ellis
How to Read A Book by Mortimer J. Adler
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading by Maureen Corrigan
The Literary Ladies’ Guide to the Writing Life by Nava Atlas
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Mobile Library Mysteries series by Ian Sansom
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
The Novel Cure by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin
On Literature by Umberto Eco
On Writing by Stephen King
Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma
S. by JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Ten Years in the Tub by Nick Hornby
Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
The Most Beautiful Book in the World by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
