Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
By: Stuart Kells
3.36
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A tantalizing true story of one of literature’s most enduring enigmas is at the heart of this “live…
Want to Read $ 9.99"If Shakespeare was another Barrington—just an allonymous brand, just a gormless frontman—then there had to be a Machiavelli in the background—a cunning architect of an elaborate bibliographical hoax. How could such a thing be done? And what kind of person could pull it off?"-Stuart Kells, Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
"If Shakespeare was another Barrington—just an allonymous brand, just a gormless frontman—then there had to be a Machiavelli in the background—a cunning architect of an elaborate bibliographical hoax. How could such a thing be done? And what kind of person could pull it off?"-Stuart Kells, Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
"If Shakespeare was another Barrington—just an allonymous brand, just a gormless frontman—then there had to be a Machiavelli in the background—a cunning architect of an elaborate bibliographical hoax. How could such a thing be done? And what kind of person could pull it off?"-Stuart Kells, Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
"For every species of book person, the idea of Shakespeare’s library—his personal collection of manuscripts, books, letters and other papers—is enticing, totemic, a subject of wonder. How did he write? Who inspired him? Who appalled him? To know Shakespeare’s books is to know Shakespeare the author."-Stuart Kells, Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
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1. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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- literature
"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
2. The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
By: Shaun Bythell
3.72
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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- audiobook
"the immersive capacity of a good novel to transport you into a different world is unique to the written word."-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
"...people still cling to the notion that first editions are somehow imbued with a magical and financial value."-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
"I am putting a mental jigsaw together of what a hobbit looks like, based on a composite of every customer I have ever sold a copy to."-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
"A less than friendly email this morning... [from a booksop customer] After lunch I went to my parents' house to get my shotgun and shoot a kindle (broken screen, bought on eBay for £10)"-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
3. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
By: James Shapiro
3.80
Format: None pages,
For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had writt… read more
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- history
- biography
- literature
- nonfiction
- books about books
- literary criticism
4. The Odd Angry Shot
By: William Nagle
3.83
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Based on the author's experience in the Australian Army, The Odd Angry Shotis the seminal account o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. The Loved One
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.76
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself enter… read more
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"Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?"-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Dennis hesitated with his fingers on the handle and was aware of communication with another hand beyond the panels. Thus in a hundred novels had loves stood."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"What is a "canty day", Dennis?' 'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.' 'What is that?' 'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.' 'Oh."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
7. 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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8. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
By: Thornton Wilder
5.00
Format: 36 pages,
Featuring a beautiful new cover and author biography, this novel, which brought Wilder his first Pu… read more
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9. Fool
By: Christopher Moore
3.91
Format: 256 pages,
"This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason… read more
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10. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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11. First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety
By: Sarah Wilson
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This journey is what I do now. I bump along, in fits and starts, on a perpetual path to finding bet… read more
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12. The Innocents Abroad
By: Mark Twain
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about E… read more
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13. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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14. Bliss
By: Peter Carey
3.71
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
This novel, by the author of Oscar and Lucinda, tells the story of a man who, recovering from death… read more
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15. The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII
By: Bob Drury
4.34
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's h… read more
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- adult
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16. Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
By: Keith Thomson
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirat… read more
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- adult
- history
- audiobook
17. Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
By: James Shapiro
4.10
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
From leading scholar James Shapiro, a timely exploration of what Shakespeare's plays reveal about o… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- literature
- nonfiction
- books about books
- literary criticism
18. Factory Girls
By: Michelle Gallen
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"I guess failure is like posh,' Maeve said. 'Relative."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
"No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
19. Shakespeare for Squirrels
By: Christopher Moore
3.91
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller! Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"I confess, a wall of worry rises for even the most confident fool when he realizes that his plot for saving the day lies with three squirrels, a troupe of earnest nitwits, a donkey-headed weaver, a s…"-Christopher Moore, Shakespeare for Squirrels
"The devil was smaller and rather younger than I would have guessed. He danced barefoot around the fire as he stoked it in preparation for my torment. The fiend wore a tunic of rough linen, leaves and…"-Christopher Moore, Shakespeare for Squirrels
20. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between
By: Gretchen Whitmer
4.34
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more
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21. Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
By: Stuart Kells
3.36
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A tantalizing true story of one of literature’s most enduring enigmas is at the heart of this “live… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- history
- literature
- nonfiction
- adult
- books about books
- literary criticism
"If Shakespeare was another Barrington—just an allonymous brand, just a gormless frontman—then there had to be a Machiavelli in the background—a cunning architect of an elaborate bibliographical hoax.…"-Stuart Kells, Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
"For every species of book person, the idea of Shakespeare’s library—his personal collection of manuscripts, books, letters and other papers—is enticing, totemic, a subject of wonder. How did he write…"-Stuart Kells, Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
