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100 Must-Read Books About Libraries & Bookstores

If you love books you probably also love bookstores and libraries. Who hasn't spent hours browsing through their collections, dived into their literary treasure chests and then hurried home, shut the real world outside and started the reading marathon.
Here's Bookriot's list of the best 100 books that are about libraries and bookstores. The list includes fiction and non-fiction books.
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The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)
The Uncommon Reader
1
Alan Bennett
The Library at Mount Char (Scott Hawkins)
The Library at Mount Char
2
Scott Hawkins
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Avi Steinberg)
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
3
Avi Steinberg
Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World's Most Unusual Libraries (Alex Johnson)
Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World's Most Unusual Libraries
4
Alex Johnson
Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow (Cheryl Knott)
Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow
5
Cheryl Knott
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts (Joshua Hammer)
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
6
Joshua Hammer
Ron's Big Mission (Rose Blue & Corinne J. Naden)
Ron's Big Mission
7
Rose Blue & Corinne J. Naden
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (Richard Brautigan)
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966
8
Richard Brautigan
Richard Wright and the Library Card (William Miller)
Richard Wright and the Library Card
9
William Miller
The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde)
The Eyre Affair
10
Jasper Fforde
Nancy Runs the Bookmobile (Enid Johnson)
Nancy Runs the Bookmobile
11
Enid Johnson
With a High Heart (Adele De Leeuw)
With a High Heart
12
Adele De Leeuw
Books and Beaux (Rosemae Wells Campbell)
Books and Beaux
13
Rosemae Wells Campbell
The Girl on the Bookmobile (Natalie King)
The Girl on the Bookmobile
14
Natalie King
Here Comes the Bookmobile (Dirk Gringhuis)
Here Comes the Bookmobile
15
Dirk Gringhuis
Curious Missie (Virginia Sorensen)
Curious Missie
16
Virginia Sorensen
The Strange Library (Haruki Murakami)
The Strange Library
17
Haruki Murakami
Bibliotech (John Palfrey)
Bibliotech
18
John Palfrey
The Camel Bookmobile (Masha Hamilton)
The Camel Bookmobile
19
Masha Hamilton
Library: An Unquiet History
Library: An Unquiet History
20
A Discovery of Witches (Deborah Harkness)
A Discovery of Witches
21
Deborah Harkness
The Invisible Library (Genevieve Cogman)
The Invisible Library
22
Genevieve Cogman
The Masked City (Genevieve Cogman)
The Masked City
23
Genevieve Cogman
The Burning Page (Genevieve Cogman)
The Burning Page
24
Genevieve Cogman
Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America (Christine Pawley)
Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America
25
Christine Pawley
The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History (Alice Crawford)
The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History
26
Alice Crawford
Patience and Fortitude: Power, Real Estate, and the Fight to Save a Public Library (Scott Sherman)
Patience and Fortitude: Power, Real Estate, and the Fight to Save a Public Library
27
Scott Sherman
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All. (Marilyn Johnson)
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All.
28
Marilyn Johnson
African American Librarians in the Far West: Pioneers and Trailblazers (Binnie Tate Wilkin)
African American Librarians in the Far West: Pioneers and Trailblazers
29
Binnie Tate Wilkin
Where Are All the Librarians of Color? (Rebecca Hankins)
Where Are All the Librarians of Color?
30
Rebecca Hankins
Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library (Wayne A. Wiegand)
Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
31
Wayne A. Wiegand
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (Vicki Myron)
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
32
Vicki Myron
The Borrower (Rebecca Makkai)
The Borrower
33
Rebecca Makkai
Bookshelf (Lydia Pyne)
Bookshelf
34
Lydia Pyne
The Library at Night (Alberto Manguel)
The Library at Night
35
Alberto Manguel
The Library of Babel (Jorge Luis Borges)
The Library of Babel
36
Jorge Luis Borges
I Work at a Public Library (Gina Sheridan)
I Work at a Public Library
37
Gina Sheridan
Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Thomas Augst, Kenneth E. Carpenter)
Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States
38
Thomas Augst, Kenneth E. Carpenter
The Library of Shadows (Mikkel Birkegaard)
The Library of Shadows
39
Mikkel Birkegaard
Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries & Black Librarianship (John Mark Tucker)
Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries & Black Librarianship
40
John Mark Tucker
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