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
novels about books Public
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Growing up as a foster child among a family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder hopes to pay back that kindness …
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The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
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In a fantastical illustrated short novel, three people imprisoned in a nightmarish library plot their escape.
Orig: Fushigi na toshokan …
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Le Figuier by François Maspero
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Après Le Sourire du chat (1984) où il évoquait une enfance à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ce …
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The sixteen pleasures by Robert Hellenga
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The Italians called them "Mud Angels," the young foreigners who came to Florence in 1966 to save the city's treasured …
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Beginning of spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Frank Reid is a struggling printer in Moscow. On the eve of the Revolution, his wife returns to her native …
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The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams
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An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer …
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The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams
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A quirky club in small-town North Carolina holds the keys to health, happiness, friendship—and even solving a murder—all to be …
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The cookbook collector by Allegra Goodman
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Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an …
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Vietri Project by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye
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Working at a bookstore in Berkeley in the years after college, Gabriele becomes intrigued by the orders of signor Vietri, …
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A Discovery of Witches by Deborah E. Harkness
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An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance.
When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, …
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The Book of Secrets by Melissa McShane
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Helena Davies just wants a job that will get her out of her parents’ basement. Instead, by the end of …
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The meaning of night by Michael Cox
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Convinced that he is destined for great wealth, power, and influence, Edward Glyver will do anything to reclaim a prize …
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Island of Books by Dominique Fortier, Rhonda Mullins
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A fifteenth-century portrait painter, grieving the untimely death of his unrequited love, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, …
