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Books about Books

April 24th, 2006  |  Published in books  |  4 Comments

Members of Book Arts-L recently shared their favorite fiction books about books, so I thought I’d compile their suggestions in one place (in alphabetical order by title). I also added one or two.

Book by Robert Grudin
Cliff Janeway mysteries by John Dunning
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Codex by Lev Grossman
Ex-Libris by Ross King
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradburry
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
The Ink Drinker series by Eric Savoisin
InkHeart trilogy by Cornelia Funke
The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil
A Literary Murder by Batya Gur
The Logogryph by Thomas Wharton
Michael Martone by Michael Martone
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Possession by A. S. Byatt
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
The Salamander by Thomas Wharton
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

Did we leave anything out? Do tell.

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  1. See Also... a library weblog by Steve Lawson says:

    April 25th, 2006at 9:22 pm(#)

    fade theory » Books about Books “Members of Book Arts-L recently shared their favorite fiction books about books, so I thought I’d compile their suggestions in one place (in alphabetical order by title). I also added one or two.

  2. Scott says:

    April 24th, 2006at 11:50 pm(#)

    Javier Marias, Dark Back of Time

  3. theorist says:

    April 25th, 2006at 12:09 am(#)

    Thanks for bringing this one to my attention, Scott. Those Spanish writers seem to have a knack for writing stuff that’s right up my alley.

  4. theorist says:

    April 26th, 2006at 12:20 am(#)

    Here’s another one via BookArts_L: The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza.

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