Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading
By: Susan Hill
3.69
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living beg…
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1. A Literary Christmas: An Anthology
By: None , British Library
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
For as long as Christmas has been celebrated, poets and writers have sought to explore every aspect… read more
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- literature
2. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
By: Anne Fadiman
4.10
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Anne Fadiman is (by her own admission) the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's c… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- literature
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
"Pen-bereavement is a serious matter."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"I have never been able to resist a book about books."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
3. Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
By: Alice Steinbach
3.50
Format: None pages,
"In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbac… read more
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- biography
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4. The Man of Property
By: John Galsworthy
3.43
Format: 331 pages,
The most prized item in Soames Forsyte's collection of beautiful things is his wife, the enigmatic … read more
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5. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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- british literature
6. Restless
By: William Boyd
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Paperback
"I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her … read more
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7. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
8. Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
By: Shaun Bythell
4.01
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the own… read more
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- books about books
"Money can't buy happiness, BUT it can buy books (which is basically the same thing)."-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
"There's a difference between a book being too expensive and a customer being too cheap."-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
"On the news this morning was a story about four men who have been abducted from a bookshop in Hong Kong for disseminating literature critical of the Chinese regime. Bookselling can be a perilous busi…"-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
"Коли я виставляв ціни на видання, до мене підійшов старший чоловік і попросив: - Не допоможете мені знайти книжки із самодопомоги? Певний, що він не помітив у цій фразі суперечності, я спитав, яка са…"-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
9. The Other Side of Mrs. Wood
By: Lucy Barker
3.55
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historical novel about the rivalry between two female mediums during Victorian London’s obsession… read more
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"I want your reputation... I want everything you have."-Lucy Barker, The Other Side of Mrs. Wood
10. 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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- books about books
11. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
12. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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13. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
By: Peter Ross
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more
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- nonfiction
- british literature
14. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
By: Joanna Cannon
3.65
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more
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"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
15. Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
By: Katherine Rundell
4.10
Format: 76 pages, Hardcover
An unmissable essay on the importance of children's literature by the bestselling and award-winning… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
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- literary criticism
"Children's books are not a hiding place, they are a seeking place."-Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
"But the writing we call children’s fiction is not a childish thing: childish things include picking your nose and eating the contents, and tantruming at the failure to get your own way. The 45th Pres…"-Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
16. 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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- nonfiction
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17. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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18. Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading
By: Susan Hill
3.69
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living beg… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
- literary criticism
19. The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple
By: Ben Aitken
4.03
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Charming, touching and very very funny" — Jenny Colgan, New York Times bestselling authorONE HOUSE… read more
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"I ask what inscription she'd have on her headstone. She gives it some thought, then says, 'Was meant to be enjoying herself but polished the doorknob instead."-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple
"She says there's been a few drops of snow in Yorkshire so the BBC are calling it a White Christmas. I say that's like calling me a vegetarian because I eat peas twice a week."-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple
"Over dinner, we mostly talk about Henry being gone a year. I tell her what someone told me in Italy: that grief is fruitful because it gives perspective and a sense of scale. Winnie says that's bollo…"-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple
"She takes a cautious approach to toasting bread. She does it by degrees, nervous of burning it. But the trouble is, by popping it up and down five times to check on its progress, she provides herself…"-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple
20. The Moonlight Market
By: Joanne Harris
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From New York Times bestselling author Joanne Harris comes a richly imagined and captivating novel … read more
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" Love never ends--- but it changes. In some cases, it grows like a tree, stronger and more fruitful. In others, it changes nature, like chrysalis to butterfly. "-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market
"And, at that, picking up his parcel of books, Spider began to walk purposefully down the road, a river of light at his ragged heels, his spindly shadow beside him."-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market
"He was close to her now, close enough to smell her scent, which was like bluebells in the rain, and the aroma of a forest in spring, and the peppery sweetness of petrichor."-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market
"There's daylight names and midnight names. Daylight names are safe enough. A spider brings good luck before midnight, but bad luck after. And you look to me like the kind of young man who needs good …"-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market
21. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
