The list is all about books about books and reading. Some are about or set in bookstores, others are perhaps about literary societies or book clubs, many are about libraries, and some are just about people who really love reading — you get the point. Overflowing in fun literary references and cozy nooks to read, it’s a great list to dive into if you’re looking for something to indulge the book lover in you.
I’ll be updating this list of Books about Books over time. If you have any additional suggestions, feel free to drop a comment below. Happy reading, book lovers!
The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 18, 2024
out of 5 on Goodreads
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookshop Robin Sloan
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 2, 2012
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
What It's About:
Publication Date: March 14, 2006
out of 5 on Goodreads
Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi
What It's About:
Publication Date: December 30, 2003
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer
What It's About:
Publication Date: July 29, 2008
out of 5 on Goodreads
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 17, 1979
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield
What It's About:
Publication Date: September 12, 2006
out of 5 on Goodreads
84, Charing Cross Road Helene Hanff
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 1, 1990
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #1) Jasper Fforde
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 25, 2003
out of 5 on Goodreads
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next #2) Jasper Fforde
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 24, 2004
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Club Dumas Arturo Perez-Reverte
What It's About:
Publication Date: May 1, 2006
out of 5 on Goodreads
People of the Book Geraldine Brooks
What It's About:
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
out of 5 on Goodreads
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 20, 1982
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Book of Lost Things John Connolly
What It's About:
Publication Date: November 7, 2006
out of 5 on Goodreads
The History of Love Nicole Krauss
What It's About:
Publication Date: May 17, 2006
out of 5 on Goodreads
Writers & Lovers Lily King
What It's About:
Publication Date: March 3, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Bookman's Tale Charlie Lovett
What It's About:
Publication Date: May 28, 2013
out of 5 on Goodreads
First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen Charlie Lovett
What It's About:
Publication Date: September 29, 2015
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 6, 2008
out of 5 on Goodreads
Eight Perfect Murders (Malcolm Kershaw #1) Peter Swanson
What It's About:
Publication Date: March 3, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Book of Lost Names Kristin Harmel
What It's About:
Publication Date: July 21, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows Balli Kaur Jaswal
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 13, 2017
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Weight of Ink Rachel Kadish
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 6, 2017
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Book of Speculation Erika Swyler
What It's About:
Publication Date: Not Available
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Bookshop of Yesterdays Amy Meyerson
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 12, 2018
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Library of Lost and Found Phaedra Patrick
What It's About:
Publication Date: March 26, 2019
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library #1)
What It's About:
Publication Date: Not Available
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Library Book Susan Orlean
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 16, 2018
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library #1) Genevieve Cogman
What It's About:
Publication Date: January 15, 2015
out of 5 on Goodreads
Matilda Roald Dahl
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 1, 1998
out of 5 on Goodreads
Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1) Rachel Caine
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 5, 2016
out of 5 on Goodreads
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1) Cornelia Funke
What It's About:
Publication Date: May 1, 2005
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Book Charmer (Dove Pond #1) Karen Hawkins
What It's About:
Publication Date: July 30, 2019
out of 5 on Goodreads
Summer Hours at the Robbers Library Sue Halpern
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 27, 2018
out of 5 on Goodreads
Camino Island (Camino Island #1) John Grisham
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 6, 2017
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Kim Michele Richardson
What It's About:
Publication Date: May 7, 2019
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Giver of Stars Jojo Moyes
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 8, 2019
out of 5 on Goodreads
The End of Your Life Book Club Will Schwalbe
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 2, 2012
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill Abbi Waxman
What It's About:
Publication Date: July 9, 2019
out of 5 on Goodreads
How to Find Love in a Bookshop Veronica Henry
What It's About:
Publication Date: July 10, 2018
out of 5 on Goodreads
Beach Read Emily Henry
What It's About:
Publication Date: May 19, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
What It's About:
Publication Date: Not Available
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Librarian of Auschwitz Antonio Iturbe
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 10, 2017
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them Elif Batuman
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 16, 2010
out of 5 on Goodreads
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore Matthew Sullivan
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 13, 2017
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Bookseller Cynthia Swanson
What It's About:
Publication Date: March 3, 2015
out of 5 on Goodreads
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) Deborah E. Harkness
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 8, 2011
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 23, 2015
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Lost for Words Bookshop Stephanie Butland
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 19, 2018
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Gabrielle Zevin
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 1, 2014
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Lions of Fifth Avenue Fiona Davis
What It's About:
Publication Date: August 4, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Children's Book A.S. Byatt
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 6, 2009
out of 5 on Goodreads
Possession A. S. Byatt
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 1, 1991
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Reader Bernhard Schlink
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 18, 1998
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Strange Library Haruki Murakami
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 18, 2024
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Historian Elizabeth Kostova
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 14, 2005
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London Garth Nix
What It's About:
Publication Date: September 22, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
Lost For Words Stephanie Butland
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 19, 2018
out of 5 on Goodreads
Murder by the Book (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery #1) Lauren Elliott
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 30, 2018
out of 5 on Goodreads
Booked To Die (Cliff Janeway #1) John Dunning
What It's About:
Publication Date: January 1, 2001
out of 5 on Goodreads
Trouble on the Books (Castle Bookshop Mystery #1) Essie Lang
What It's About:
Publication Date: March 13, 2019
out of 5 on Goodreads
By Book or By Crook (Lighthouse Library Mystery #1) Eva Gates
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 3, 2015
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Case of the Missing Books (Mobile Library Mystery #1) Ian Sansom
What It's About:
Publication Date: January 2, 2007
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett
What It's About:
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Violets of March Sarah Jio
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 26, 2011
out of 5 on Goodreads
Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason Nancy Pearl
What It's About:
Publication Date: September 29, 2009
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Lost and Found Bookshop Susan Wiggs
What It's About:
Publication Date: July 7, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Eighth Detective Alex Pavesi
What It's About:
Publication Date: August 4, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Fifth Avenue Story Society Rachel Hauck
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 4, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Hazel Wood (The Hazel Wood #1) Melissa Albert
What It's About:
Publication Date: January 30, 2018
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur #1)
What It's About:
Publication Date: Not Available
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Ghostwriter Alessandra Torre
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 2, 2017
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Editor Steven Rowley
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 2, 2019
out of 5 on Goodreads
Suggested Reading Dave Connis
What It's About:
Publication Date: September 17, 2019
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Last Bookshop in London Madeline Martin
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 6, 2021
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop #1) Jenny Colgan
What It's About:
Publication Date: September 20, 2016
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop #2) Jenny Colgan
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 25, 2019
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus Series #2) Christopher Morley
What It's About:
Publication Date: August 13, 2013
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Camel Bookmobile Masha Hamilton
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Bookshop Book Jen Campbell
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 1, 2015
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Last Bookaneer Matthew Pearl
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 28, 2015
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Jane Austen Book Club Karen Joy Fowler
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 26, 2005
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Katarina Bivald
What It's About:
Publication Date: January 19, 2016
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses) Terri-Lynne DeFino
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 12, 2018
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Diary of a Bookseller Shaun Bythell
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 18, 2024
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Jane Austen Society Natalie Jenner
What It's About:
Publication Date: May 26, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Princess Bride William Goldman
What It's About:
Publication Date: July 15, 2003
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Library at the Edge of the World (Finfarran Peninsula #1) Felicity Hayes-McCoy
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 2, 2016
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern
What It's About:
Publication Date: November 5, 2019
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Bookshop Penelope Fitzgerald
What It's About:
Publication Date: September 15, 1997
out of 5 on Goodreads
Confessions of a Bookseller Shaun Bythell
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 19, 2024
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Night Bookmobile Audrey Niffenegger
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 18, 2024
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Grady Hendrix
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 7, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Lending Library Aliza Fogelson
What It's About:
Publication Date: July 1, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Last Book Party Karen Dukess
What It's About:
Publication Date: July 9, 2019
out of 5 on Goodreads
I love this. Thanks for putting it together!
thanks kristin! :)
Love this very much. Thanks for curating this. I have read a few from this.
You have really inspired me. I think I’ll consolidate one list as well
Thanks for compiling my favorite kinds of books!
thanks for checking it out, happy reading!
Wow, what a post… I only have a physical of the bookshop book by Jen l that my wife got me and it was signed by the author too! What is nice about that book is that we have been to about four of the many bookshops mentioned in there… So many to go to still!
oh that’s cute that you’ve been able to visit those bookshops! thank you for sharing and thanks for dropping by! :)
The Shadow of the Wind is my favorite book! It is the main reason I want to become an author! Good post :)
thank you, and yes I absolutely love that book as well!
I have ready a few already and many are on my TBR. Thanks for helping me add a few more to my never-ending TBR list.
I was scrolling and scrolling searching for the Starless Sea because I knew there was just no way it wouldn’t be on this list. Love that book. I recently bought The Library of the Unwritten too and I’m very excited to read it. This blog post popped into my awareness at the perfect time, I was just thinking of making an Instagram or blog post themed around books about books!
Thank you for such great post. I believe the 2021 book by Anthony Doerr belongs on the list. I’m sure all your readers fall in love with CLOUD CUCKOO LAND, as early as the first 10 pages!
Thanks very much for taking the time for putting this together. A book I feel is most worthy of inclusion is the book “The Door-to-Door Bookstore” by Carsten Henn. A book that has just restored some of my lost faith in humanity.