40 of Your Favorite Books About Books
This Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Flatiron Books and Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence.
What would you say to the books in your life? Dear Fahrenheit 451 is librarian Annie Spence’s collection of love letters and break-up notes to the iconic and eclectic books she has encountered over the years.
There are few things in life a bookworm enjoys as much as a book about books. It appears we cannot have too much of a good thing. These are the books that are made for the bookish. We asked you to tell us your favorite books about books and you responded. Here are 40 of your favorites! End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe Inkheart by Cornelia Funke The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino The Eyre Affrair by Jasper Fford The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan The Novel by Michael Schmidt On Writing by Stephen King Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shafer Matilda by Roald Dahl 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff When Books Went to War by Molly Manning Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin My Reading Life by Pat Conroy The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe You by Caroline Kepnes The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee Camino Island by John Grisham Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home Book by Susan Hill Book Row by Marvin Mondlin and Roy Meador A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes Miniature Books, 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures by Julian Edison and Anne Bromer Book Lust by Nancy Pearl The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett The History of Love by Nicole Krauss Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books by Wendy Lesser Sounder by William H. Armstrong The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World and Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore both by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
What would you say to the books in your life? Dear Fahrenheit 451 is librarian Annie Spence’s collection of love letters and break-up notes to the iconic and eclectic books she has encountered over the years.
There are few things in life a bookworm enjoys as much as a book about books. It appears we cannot have too much of a good thing. These are the books that are made for the bookish. We asked you to tell us your favorite books about books and you responded. Here are 40 of your favorites! End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe Inkheart by Cornelia Funke The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino The Eyre Affrair by Jasper Fford The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan The Novel by Michael Schmidt On Writing by Stephen King Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shafer Matilda by Roald Dahl 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff When Books Went to War by Molly Manning Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin My Reading Life by Pat Conroy The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe You by Caroline Kepnes The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee Camino Island by John Grisham Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home Book by Susan Hill Book Row by Marvin Mondlin and Roy Meador A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes Miniature Books, 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures by Julian Edison and Anne Bromer Book Lust by Nancy Pearl The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett The History of Love by Nicole Krauss Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books by Wendy Lesser Sounder by William H. Armstrong The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World and Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore both by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
