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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,779 ratings — published 1998
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.98 — 29,130 ratings — published 1940
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.72 — 219,231 ratings — published 2012
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.04 — 379,541 ratings — published 2014
Books (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.23 — 2,326 ratings — published 2008
84, Charing Cross Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.16 — 110,623 ratings — published 1970
The End of Your Life Book Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.81 — 56,513 ratings — published 2012
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,963 ratings — published 2000
A History of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,632 ratings — published 1996
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,058 ratings — published 2011
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.31 — 755,896 ratings — published 2001
How Reading Changed My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,569 ratings — published 1998
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.01 — 20,684 ratings — published 2018
A Child of Books (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,542 ratings — published 2016
Make Way for Readers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.50 — 344 ratings — published 2016
My Ideal Bookshelf (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,123 ratings — published 2012
Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,874 ratings — published 2003
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.67 — 144,389 ratings — published 2003
Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,671 ratings — published 2018
The Book Hog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,137 ratings — published 2019
You Can Read (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.78 — 810 ratings — published 2017
Madeline Finn and the Library Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,145 ratings — published 2016
I Am a Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,425 ratings — published 2016
Let Me Finish! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,159 ratings — published 2016
The Book on the Bookshelf (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,515 ratings — published 1999
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,987,468 ratings — published 2005
The Year of Reading Dangerously (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.31 — 6,333 ratings — published 2012
The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.60 — 6,367 ratings — published 1919
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.74 — 30,913 ratings — published 2012
Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.59 — 726 ratings — published 2011
Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,317 ratings — published 1996
It's a Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.23 — 10,247 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.45 — 14,475 ratings — published 2009
At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,073 ratings — published 1995
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,282 ratings — published 1995
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.46 — 2,023 ratings — published 2005
Book Lust (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,667 ratings — published 2003
The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.11 — 751 ratings — published 2003
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.88 — 128,630 ratings — published 2018
Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,046 ratings — published 2018
The Incredible Book Eating Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,096 ratings — published 2007
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.71 — 4,546 ratings — published 2017
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.76 — 11,642 ratings — published 2017
Books for Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,199 ratings — published 2016
The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.35 — 952 ratings — published 2009
This Is Not a Picture Book! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,367 ratings — published 2016
The Summer Nick Taught His Cats to Read (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as books-reading)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,026 ratings — published 2016
Where Are My Books? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,179 ratings — published 2015
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,309 ratings — published 2015
By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as books-reading)
avg rating 3.75 — 932 ratings — published 2014
“Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.”
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