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
Created and curated by sarah
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The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
1 star
The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who became one of the most powerful …
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4 stars
Luster sees a young black woman figuring her way into life as an artist and into love in this darkly …
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The Forgers by Bradford Morrow
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The murderer of Adam Diehl, a reclusive rare-book collector, begins to stalk Adam's sister's lover Will -- a convicted literary …
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It’s 1953, and Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, has entered …
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Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk
2 stars
What holds more secrets in the library: the ancient books shelved in the stacks or the people who preserve them? …
