novels about books Public

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fiction about bookish things (bookselling, libraries, publishing, printing, conservation, etc) primarily via twitter (https://twitter.com/wynkenhimself/status/1411715062889422854), so cannot vouch for many of these

  1. Paris Library by 

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    Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet seems to have the perfect life with her handsome police officer beau and …

  2. Salamander by 

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    Nicholas Flood, an unassuming eighteenth-century London printer, specializes in novelty books -- books that nestle into one another, books comprised …

  3. Bookshop Girl by ,

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    Property Jones and her family are in dire straits when they win a drawing for the greatest bookstore in England …

  4. The bookshop on the corner by 

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    Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion... and also her job. …

  5. Severance by 

    4 stars

    Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. So she barely notices when …

  6. Lost Children Archive by 

    4 stars

    In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set …

  7. Library at the Edge of the World by 

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    As she drives her mobile library van between villages of Ireland's West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about …

  8. The truth by 

    5 stars

    The denizens of Ankh-Morpork fancy they've seen just about everything. But then comes the Ankh-Morpork Times, struggling scribe William de …

  9. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by 

    4 stars

    Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the …

  10. The Lost Diary of Venice by 

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    In the wake of her father’s death, Rose Newlin finds solace in her work as a book restorer. Then, one …

  11. La Misteriosa fiamma della Regina Loana by 

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    The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (original Italian title: La Misteriosa Fiamma della Regina Loana) is a novel by Italian …

  12. The Weight of Ink by 

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    Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale …

  13. Magpie Murders by 

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    When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it …

  14. The Historian by 

    3 stars

    To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient …

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