For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More
By: Graham Tarrant
3.56
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland banned in …
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1. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
By: David McCullough
4.25
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Published on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, this edition of the classic book … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
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"One has the feeling that if you could pick it up and turn it over, you would see MADE IN AMERICA stamped on it."-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"What I wanted-what I needed-was a story wherein the principal characters took on something big and admirable and difficult, and did it right."-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"Nothing lasts forever. The most unforseen circumstances will swamp you and baffle the wisest calculations. Only vitality and plenty of it helps you. Washington A. Roebling quoted by"-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"Everywhere about her, lesser men, witless, vulgar, corrupt, men of narrow ambition and the cheapest of values, were prospering as never before, grabbing up power, money, or just about anything else t…"-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
2. Better Than Sane: Tales from a Dangling Girl
By: Alison C. Rose
3.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Dorothy Parker meets Holly Golightly in this sharp, delicious, bright-girl-comes-to-New-York memoir… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Booked To Die (Cliff Janeway, #1)
By: John Dunning
4.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he is an avid collecto… read more
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- books about books
4. Brave Enough
By: Cheryl Strayed
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Wild,a collection of quotes--drawn from the wide range of her writi… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
5. Books for Living
By: Will Schwalbe
4.15
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club - a wonderfully enga… read more
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- nonfiction
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6. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
By: Jen Campbell
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
This Sunday Times bestseller is a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments: 'Can books… read more
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7. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
By: Allison Hoover Bartlett
3.87
Format: 288 pages,
In the tradition of 'The Orchid Thief', a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel w… read more
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8. Disappearing Ink: The Insider, the FBI, and the Looting of the Kenyon College Library
By: Travis McDade
4.17
Format: 510 pages,
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9. The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
By: None
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery." --Vanity Fair "The True … read more
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10. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
By: Grant Snider
3.74
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator … read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- writing
- books about books
"A book closed is just a block of paper."-Grant Snider, I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
11. 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
- books about books
- audiobook
12. 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
- nonfiction
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"Different books speak to us at different times."-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
13. Parkland: Birth of a Movement
By: Dave Cullen
3.98
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordin… read more
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- adult
- history
- audiobook
14. 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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"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
15. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
By: Shaun Bythell
3.48
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A cantankerously funny view of books and the people who love them. It does take all kinds and throu… read more
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- nonfiction
- books about books
- audiobook
"It should go without saying that anyone who introduces themselves as 'a bit weird' is almost certainly not."-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
"This group derives an alternate sort of gratification from the fact that their niche obsession somehow differentiates them from other people, mistakenly assuming that it makes them more interesting."-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
"It's not as though there is anything wrong with being American, although perhaps in a land of immigrants the only way to differentiate yourself is to cling onto a piece of the land you left, even if …"-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
16. The Plot and the Pendulum (Library Lover's Mystery, #13)
By: Jenn McKinlay
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Library director Lindsey Norris is happy to learn the Briar Creek Public Library is the beneficiary… read more
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- books about books
- audiobook
17. Killer Research (Library Lover's Mystery, #12)
By: Jenn McKinlay
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Spring has sprung in Briar Creek, but it is not all sunshine and roses, in the newest Library Lover… read more
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- audiobook
18. Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
By: Philip Matyszak
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East saw the birth and collapse of great civili… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Phoenicians pioneered a new style of writing that reproduced not images of the things described but the sounds used for them in speech--the first alphabetic script, As trade developed, writing became…"-Philip Matyszak, Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
19. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
By: David Gibbins
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
20. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
By: Ben Westhoff
4.02
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illici… read more
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- history
- audiobook
21. A Study in Treason (The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, #2)
By: Leonard Goldberg
3.79
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A continuation of USA TODAY bestselling author Leonard Goldberg's The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes, … read more
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- historical
- adult
- audiobook
22. Mango, Mambo, and Murder (A Caribbean Kitchen Mystery, #1)
By: Raquel V. Reyes
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Cuban-American cooking show star Miriam Quinones-Smith becomes a seasoned sleuth in Raquel Reyes's … read more
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- audiobook
23. 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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"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
24. Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
By: Alice Robb
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Expertly choreographed and long overdue, this is the nuanced reckoning ballet needs, ballerinas de… read more
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- audiobook
"Another study, this one by doctors at Imperial College in London, found a neurological anomaly: the area of the cerebellum that receives signals from the 'balance organs" in the inner ear and convert…"-Alice Robb, Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
25. The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes
By: C.S. Lewis
4.10
Format: 192 pages, ebook
The revered teacher and bestselling author of such classic Christian works as Mere Christianity and… read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
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26. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
By: Kirsten Miller
4.19
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more
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- adult
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- audiobook
27. So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns
By: Dina Gachman
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A searching, heartfelt exploration about what it means to process grief, by a bestselling author an… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. The Instrumentalist
By: Harriet Constable
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away.… read more
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- adult
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29. For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More
By: Graham Tarrant
3.56
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland banned in … read more
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30. 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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31. Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir
By: Mary L. Trump
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! A New York Times Nonfiction Book to R… read more
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