In Praise of Good Bookstores
By: Jeff Deutsch
3.42
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular …
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1. In CHEAP We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue
By: Lauren Weber
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Cheap. Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meani… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- business
- audiobook
2. Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books
By: Michael Dirda
3.50
Format: 92 pages, Hardcover
Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- books about books
3. The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
By: Lewis Buzbee
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Buzbee, a former bookseller and sales representative, celebrates th… read more
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4. Eleven
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.23
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
From the eerily outlandish to the dark and brutal, Eleven presents a gallery of bizarre characters,… read more
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6. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)
By: Shaun Bythell
4.11
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- books about books
- audiobook
7. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
By: James Patterson
3.92
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more
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- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
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"Different books speak to us at different times."-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
8. Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
By: Alba Donati
3.50
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Under the Tuscan Sun meets Diary of a Bookseller in this charming memoir by an Italian poet recount… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
"A Lucignana non abbiamo regine ma fate si, molte."-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
"How did I get the idea? Ideas don't just spring out of nothing - they smoulder, ferment, crowd our mind while we sleep. Ideas walk on their own two legs, follow their own parallel path in part of us …"-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
"Cit. p.81 "I fiori come noi pensano, intuiscono la via più semplice, evitano percorsi difficili. e lottano, hanno spiriti rivoluzionari. ... Penso alla povera erba medica che ripone dentro leggere sp…"-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
9. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
By: Oliver Darkshire
3.97
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more
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- nonfiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
10. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
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- audiobook
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
11. Swim Home to the Vanished
By: Brendan Shay Basham
3.35
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the river swallowed Kai, Damien’s little brother didn’t die so much as vanish. As the unbea… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
12. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
By: Shannon Reed
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
- audiobook
"I think, therefore, I cry..."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"Life is so much better with books than without."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
13. Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale
By: Paul Yamazaki
4.22
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of t… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- books about books
- contemporary
14. Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!: How to Take Back Our Time, Attention, and Purpose in a World Designed to Bury Us in Bullshit
By: Julio Vincent Gambuto
3.60
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Atomic Habits meets The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck in this life-changing guide to freeing your… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
By: Emma Smith
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside the rosy nostalgic glow for child… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
- audiobook
16. On Browsing
By: Jason Guriel
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon—and gaining new appreciation—amidst the bins and … read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
- audiobook
17. The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
By: Gary Goodman
3.82
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
A wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade during its last Golden Age When Gar… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- business
- books about books
"Okay, so I know I’m not the last bookseller. People still sell books. But I’m one of the last of a certain kind of bookseller. The kind that for six hundred years rooted around basements, book bins, …"-Gary Goodman, The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
18. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
By: Sara B. Franklin
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more
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- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- books about books
- audiobook
19. A History of the Island
By: Eugene Vodolazkin
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Monks devious and devout – and an age-defying royal pair – chronicle the history of their fictional… read more
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20. The Bookseller's Tale
By: Martin Latham
3.81
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale the… read more
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- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
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"When one realizes the tremendous evolution of one's being which occurs in a lifetime one is bound to as: ...did I learn my lesson here on earth?"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"I have found time and time again that people's childhood comfort book prefigures, to an almost comical degree which they cannot always see, their adult mission in life."-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"I have seen this in thirty years of bookselling: customers stroking a book’s cover, peeking under the jacket, surreptitiously closing their eyes to smell the valley of pages - this sometimes accompan…"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"Where do we go in dreams if not to a universal library? Such a infinite library would be brain-lik, characterised by labyrinthine passages where firing synapses distantly crackle, mythic beings appea…"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
21. The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
By: Cory Leadbeater
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addict… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
22. In Praise of Good Bookstores
By: Jeff Deutsch
3.42
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular … read more
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- history
- memoir
- the united states of america
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- business
- books about books
23. The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.48
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is f… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- the united states of america
"Attempting to write an honest essay doesn't alter the multiplicity of my selves. What changes, if I take the time to stop and measure, is that my multi-selved identity acquires substance."-Jonathan Franzen, The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
"One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the…"-Jonathan Franzen, The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
"Invisible Facebook and Google algorithms steer you toward content you agree with, and nonconforming voices stay silent for fear of being flamed or trolled or unfriended. The result is a silo in which…"-Jonathan Franzen, The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
"The radical otherness of birds is integral to their beauty and their value. They are always among us but never of us. They’re the other world-dominating animals that evolution has produced, and their…"-Jonathan Franzen, The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
24. Just the Good Stuff: No-BS Secrets to Success (No Matter What Life Throws at You)
By: Jim Vandehei
3.82
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal, authentic, and clear-eyed guide to navigating today’s complex world and building… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- business
25. Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
By: Vivian Gornick
3.73
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's celebration of passionate rea… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- books about books
"Come quasi tutti i lettori, a volte ho la sensazione di essere nata leggendo"."-Vivian Gornick, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
"Between what we know and what we cannot hope to know about how we come to be as we are lies an emotional dumping ground into which exceptional writers pour all the art they are capable of making."-Vivian Gornick, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
26. Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly
By: Kenneth C. Davis
3.84
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
This entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time, from a bestselling historian,… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- books about books
27. Negative Space
By: Gillian Linden
3.26
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A gem of a debut novel about a young mother navigating the instabilities of teaching, parenting, an… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
28. The Anti-Social Family
By: Michèle Barrett
3.77
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Although family values are frequently lamented for being in decline, our society continues to be st… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
"The feminist position on abortion is a woman's right to *choose*, and feminists would defend to the hilt the right of any woman *not*to have an abortion irrespective of the grounds she gave for makin…"-Michèle Barrett, The Anti-Social Family
"The world around the family is not a pre-existing harsh climate against which the family offers protection and warmth. It is as if the family has drawn comfort and security into itself and left the o…"-Michèle Barrett, The Anti-Social Family
"Page 18 Indeed, all the main writers on this topic – Marx, Engels, Bebel, Lenin, Trotsky, Zetkin and Kollontai – more or less imply that when women are engaged in wage labor on equal terms with men, …"-Michèle Barrett, The Anti-Social Family
"Page 78 The family sucks the juice out of everything around it, leaving other institutions stunted and distorted. Page 75 Deep-seated differences between the sexes do tend to be reproduced from gener…"-Michèle Barrett, The Anti-Social Family
29. How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling
By: Danny Caine
4.32
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
"As bastions of culture, anchors of local retail districts, community gathering places, and the sou… read more
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- nonfiction
- books about books
- audiobook
30. Le delizie della signorina Ashikawa
By: Juko Takase
2.60
Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition
È possibile che il cibo, quando è condiviso, abbia un sapore migliore? Davvero mangiare insieme rap… read more
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31. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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- history
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