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The Best Books About Books: Reading About Reading Is Sometimes Better Than Reading

Jonathan Russell Clark is a staff writer for Literary Hub. He writes: "I love books. More than anything else. More than food.... More than friends (sorry, everyone). I'd rather read about a city than visit it. I'd rather read a person's work than converse with them. And sometimes, rather than read a book, I'd actually rather read a book ABOUT books".
This "challenge" is meant more as a list of suggestions rather than a star quest.
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So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures (Maureen Corrigan)
So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
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Maureen Corrigan
Hothouse (Boris Kachka)
Hothouse
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Boris Kachka
Roth Unbound (Roth Pierpoint)
Roth Unbound
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Roth Pierpoint
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America (Christopher Bram)
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
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Christopher Bram
Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 (John Leonard)
Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
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John Leonard
Axel's Castle (Edmund Wilson)
Axel's Castle
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Edmund Wilson
Forty-One False Starts (Janet Malcolm)
Forty-One False Starts
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Janet Malcolm
White Girls (Hilton Als)
White Girls
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Hilton Als
The Fun Stuff and Other Essays (James Wood)
The Fun Stuff and Other Essays
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James Wood
In Rough Country (Joyce Carol Oates)
In Rough Country
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Joyce Carol Oates
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (Geoff Dyer)
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
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Geoff Dyer
Changing My Mind (Zadie Smith)
Changing My Mind
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Zadie Smith
Where I'm Reading From (Tim Parks)
Where I'm Reading From
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Tim Parks
Off the Books: On Literature and Culture (J. Peder Zane)
Off the Books: On Literature and Culture
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J. Peder Zane
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living With Books (Michael Dirda)
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living With Books
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Michael Dirda
The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe (Ann Morgan)
The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe
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Ann Morgan
A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write (Melissa Pritchard)
A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write
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Melissa Pritchard
Unacknowledged Legislation (Christopher Hitchens)
Unacknowledged Legislation
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Christopher Hitchens
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism (John Updike)
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism
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John Updike
Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics (Stefan Collini)
Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics
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Stefan Collini
Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays (Cynthia Ozick)
Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays
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Cynthia Ozick
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End (Katie Roiphe)
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
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Katie Roiphe
Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them (Tim Parks)
Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them
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Tim Parks
Everybody Behaves Badly (Lesley M. M. Blume)
Everybody Behaves Badly
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Lesley M. M. Blume
Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann (Frederic Spotts)
Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann
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Frederic Spotts
Known and Strange Things (Teju Cole)
Known and Strange Things
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Teju Cole
The View From the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction (Neil Gaiman)
The View From the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
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Neil Gaiman
Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me (Teffi)
Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me
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Teffi
The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the War (C.D. Wright)
The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the War
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C.D. Wright
Nabakov's Favorite Word Is Mauve (Ben Blatt)
Nabakov's Favorite Word Is Mauve
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Ben Blatt
My Life With Bob : Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues (Pamela Paul)
My Life With Bob : Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
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Pamela Paul
Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir (Jill Bialosky)
Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir
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Jill Bialosky
A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks (Angela Jackson)
A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
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Angela Jackson
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays (Tom McCarthy)
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays
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Tom McCarthy
Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich (Michele K. Troy)
Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich
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Michele K. Troy
American Originality: Essays on Poetry (Louise Glück)
American Originality: Essays on Poetry
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Louise Glück
Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers (Graydon Carter)
Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers
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Graydon Carter
Gaslight: Lantern Slides From the Nineteenth Century (Joachim Kalka)
Gaslight: Lantern Slides From the Nineteenth Century
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Joachim Kalka
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live (Peter Orner)
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
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Peter Orner
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