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
Cliff Janeway mysteries
The Club Dumas
Codex
Ex-Libris
Fahrenheit 451
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
The Ink Drinker series
InkHeart trilogy
The Grand Complication
A Literary Murder
The Logogryph
Michael Martone
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
The Name of the Rose
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Possession
The Rule of Four
The Salamander
The Shadow of the Wind
The Sixteen Pleasures
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Thursday Next series
The Wife
Did we leave anything out? Do tell.
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.
Javier Marias, Dark Back of Time
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.
Here’s another one via BookArts_L: The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza.