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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 103,007 ratings
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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4.09 avg rating — 14,491 ratings
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THINKING DOLBY ATMOS: How musicians produce pop, rock and metal in a future-proof way
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 122,767 ratings
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Book Lust
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3.77 avg rating — 3,662 ratings
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The Polysyllabic Spree
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3.73 avg rating — 7,044 ratings
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
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4.04 avg rating — 2,272 ratings
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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3.98 avg rating — 28,379 ratings
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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
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3.39 avg rating — 3,062 ratings
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
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3.77 avg rating — 11,965 ratings
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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
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3.66 avg rating — 4,070 ratings
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A History of Reading
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3.99 avg rating — 5,550 ratings
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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3.81 avg rating — 2,857 ratings
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Inferno Revealed: From Dante to Dan Brown
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4.28 avg rating — 102 ratings
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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3.58 avg rating — 34,467 ratings
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More Book Lust
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3.93 avg rating — 1,702 ratings
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
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3.45 avg rating — 14,226 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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3.67 avg rating — 141,913 ratings
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A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
by
3.76 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
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3.82 avg rating — 2,856 ratings
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The Library at Night
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3.98 avg rating — 4,008 ratings
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| 22 |
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How Reading Changed My Life
by
3.82 avg rating — 4,518 ratings
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On Literature
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3.95 avg rating — 2,334 ratings
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The Author's AI Toolkit: From Concept to Publication
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4.72 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
by
3.46 avg rating — 2,015 ratings
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| 26 |
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
by
3.86 avg rating — 3,655 ratings
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
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3.71 avg rating — 4,541 ratings
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Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits
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3.60 avg rating — 663 ratings
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Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World
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3.94 avg rating — 1,708 ratings
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Book Crush: For Kids and Teens--Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest
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3.97 avg rating — 668 ratings
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Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
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3.74 avg rating — 30,659 ratings
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
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3.81 avg rating — 1,177 ratings
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Danse Macabre
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3.67 avg rating — 31,721 ratings
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
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3.44 avg rating — 5,056 ratings
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My Ideal Bookshelf
by
3.71 avg rating — 2,112 ratings
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| 36 |
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Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
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Jane Mount (Goodreads Author) (Author, illustrator & designer)
4.32 avg rating — 5,620 ratings
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| 37 |
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Shakespeare Wrote for Money
by
3.82 avg rating — 2,002 ratings
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| 38 |
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The Year of Reading Dangerously
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3.31 avg rating — 6,285 ratings
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The Library Book
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3.88 avg rating — 126,118 ratings
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The Book on the Bookshelf
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3.75 avg rating — 1,503 ratings
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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
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4.11 avg rating — 556 ratings
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| 42 |
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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
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3.48 avg rating — 7,469 ratings
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My Reading Life
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3.95 avg rating — 8,357 ratings
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| 44 |
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Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
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3.71 avg rating — 973 ratings
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At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
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4.07 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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| 46 |
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Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
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3.76 avg rating — 11,429 ratings
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Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
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3.64 avg rating — 1,153 ratings
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| 48 |
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How Fiction Works
by
3.99 avg rating — 8,309 ratings
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| 49 |
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Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction
by
3.64 avg rating — 487 ratings
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| 50 |
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1001 Books for Every Mood
by
3.71 avg rating — 528 ratings
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| 51 |
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The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature
by
3.95 avg rating — 952 ratings
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500 Great Books by Women
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3.94 avg rating — 194 ratings
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| 53 |
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Libraries in the Ancient World
by
3.76 avg rating — 824 ratings
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| 54 |
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The Writer's Spellbook: Creating Magic Systems For Fantasy
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read
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3.56 avg rating — 419 ratings
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501 Great Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of Literature
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3.95 avg rating — 158 ratings
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What We See When We Read
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3.70 avg rating — 5,988 ratings
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The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 31,091 ratings
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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List
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4.12 avg rating — 1,510 ratings
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The Smithsonian Book of Books
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4.18 avg rating — 273 ratings
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One for the Books
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3.56 avg rating — 1,455 ratings
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| 62 |
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Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments
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4.05 avg rating — 343 ratings
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| 63 |
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
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3.85 avg rating — 8,355 ratings
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The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
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3.45 avg rating — 1,009 ratings
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The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
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3.68 avg rating — 6,837 ratings
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When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
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3.92 avg rating — 8,720 ratings
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Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction
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3.76 avg rating — 4,174 ratings
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100 Best Books for Children
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4.08 avg rating — 291 ratings
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Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education
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4.25 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
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3.76 avg rating — 1,945 ratings
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The Common Reader
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4.11 avg rating — 1,997 ratings
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Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
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3.86 avg rating — 4,312 ratings
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| 73 |
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Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore
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3.88 avg rating — 662 ratings
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| 74 |
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Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
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4.26 avg rating — 12,185 ratings
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The Books in My Life
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3.82 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
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Read, Remember, Recommend (A Reading Journal for Book Lovers)
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4.06 avg rating — 135 ratings
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The Library Book
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3.76 avg rating — 1,487 ratings
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| 78 |
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Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia
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4.11 avg rating — 1,494 ratings
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| 79 |
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One Writer's Beginnings
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4.06 avg rating — 4,153 ratings
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| 80 |
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What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction & Fantasy
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3.89 avg rating — 1,125 ratings
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I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
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4.01 avg rating — 20,447 ratings
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The Bookshop Book
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4.10 avg rating — 2,636 ratings
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
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4.27 avg rating — 3,963 ratings
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A Reader on Reading
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3.77 avg rating — 936 ratings
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Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore
by
3.54 avg rating — 570 ratings
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Warmly Inscribed: The New England Forger and Other Book Tales
by
3.86 avg rating — 282 ratings
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| 87 |
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How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry
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3.91 avg rating — 1,197 ratings
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| 88 |
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A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books
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3.37 avg rating — 352 ratings
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| 89 |
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
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3.52 avg rating — 4,333 ratings
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| 90 |
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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,854 ratings
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The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
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4.08 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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| 92 |
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Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children
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4.15 avg rating — 2,365 ratings
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Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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3.76 avg rating — 363 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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3.87 avg rating — 35,627 ratings
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The Oxford Companion to the Book
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4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Little Black Book: Books - Over a Century of the Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events That Rocked the Literary World
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3.79 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8,374 ratings
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| 98 |
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The Anatomy of Bibliomania
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4.09 avg rating — 158 ratings
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| 99 |
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Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages
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3.56 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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