Love and Other Foreign Words is here 🥹 I read it years ago and I remember I loved it so much and I always wondered why no one talked about it or was more popular back then!

Might I suggest:

Book I read but would NOT recommend:

• The Book Hater's Book Club by Gretchen Anthony

Books I read but they were mid:

• A Kind of Paradise by Amy Rebecca Tan
• The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass
• Same Page by Elly Swartz
• The Bookshop of Dust and Dreams by Mindy Thompson
• I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf by Grant Snider

Books I read and would recommend:

• The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• Ban This Book by Alan Gratz

Books I want to read:

• The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon
• The Legend of the Last Library by Frank L. Cole
• The Spellbook Library Vol 1 by Uta Isaki
• The Library of Ever by Zeno Alexander
• The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa
• The Library of Unruly Treasures by Jeanne Birdsall
• Book Love by Debbie Tung
• The Lonely Book by Meg Grehan
• Books Aren't for Eating by Carlie Sorosiak
• Not Another Banned Book by Dana Alison Levy
• For the Love of Books by Graham Tarrant
• Hetty and the Battle of the Books by Anna James
• Browsings by Michael Dirda
• The Bookshop by Evan Friss
• How to Protect Bookstores and Why by Danny Caine
• The In-Between Bookstore by Edward Underhill
• The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Cartsen Henn
• The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor
• The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by Matt Eversmann
• Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell

I think Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo is a good fit here. I'm midway through it, it's a somewhat basic introduction to the invention of books, that mixes fiction and non-fiction. But the author is the type of person that really reeeally loves books. I'll drop the link here just in case: https://pagebound.co/books/8fb93f27-afaa-48f0-a51b-f5ee147e4801

Where were you earlier this year when I had this theme for a book challenge 😂

Gimme your recs if they aren't already on list list! Fiction and non-fiction welcome!

Wow! That's a lot of books. I didn't see The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature by David J. Alworth & Peter Mendelsund. At least I think I didn't? This is a lot of books. 😂

A few I have on my own books about books shelf that I don't think I saw ☺️

Scot and Bothered by Alexandra Kiley Book Love by Debbie Tung Not in My Books by Katie Holt The Perfect Rom-Com by Melissa Ferguson Bibliotherapy in the Bronx by Emely Rumble Drawn Together by Juliana Smith The Astral Library by Kate Quinn

Nonfiction if you're adding those: Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction by Kenneth C. Davis Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out by Shannon Reed Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

Might I suggest The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

I have another one though not sure if it fits exactly. It’s a romance that centres around a bookstore, though not the books themselves: Taking the Heat by Victoria Dahl. Aside from so much of the plot happening in the bookstore, it has the sexiest BJ scene you’ll probably ever read.