Books about Librarians and Booksellers, real and fictional.
created by j.bateman
last updated July, 2026
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin
The Library at Mount Char
Scott Hawkins
The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library #1)
A.J. Hackwith
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
Robin Sloan
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
Megan Rosenbloom
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
Evan Friss
Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
Sue Halpern
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Eva Jurczyk
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
Joshua Hammer
The Librarianist
Patrick deWitt
The War Librarian
Addison Armstrong
The Paris Library
Janet Skeslien Charles
The Bookseller at the End of the World
Ruth Shaw
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
James Patterson
The Underground Library
Jennifer Ryan
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
Fiona Davis
The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
C.M. Waggoner
Funny Story
Emily Henry
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki
The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern
The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1)
Genevieve Cogman
Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng
The Library of Lost and Found
Phaedra Patrick
The Borrower
Rebecca Makkai
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
Oliver Darkshire
The Last Chance Library
Freya Sampson
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
Michiko Aoyama
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict
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