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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,748,596 ratings
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
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84, Charing Cross Road
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 703,259 ratings
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
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Robin Sloan (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 214,696 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
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The Thirteenth Tale
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Diane Setterfield (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 323,939 ratings
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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Gabrielle Zevin (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 348,761 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 389,661 ratings
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Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
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Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 439,913 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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3.66 avg rating — 139,070 ratings
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
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4.04 avg rating — 2,254 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 797,996 ratings
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Possession
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3.90 avg rating — 83,472 ratings
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People of the Book
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 154,422 ratings
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
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3.87 avg rating — 62,184 ratings
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The Poisonwood Bible
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4.11 avg rating — 783,783 ratings
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The Uncommon Reader
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3.73 avg rating — 58,758 ratings
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The Library Book
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Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 121,729 ratings
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The Library
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4.32 avg rating — 4,994 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 274,309 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 312,204 ratings
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Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
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Jen Campbell (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 30,202 ratings
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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4.09 avg rating — 13,987 ratings
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
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Nancy Pearl (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 3,651 ratings
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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
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3.65 avg rating — 4,007 ratings
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The Little Paris Bookshop
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Nina George (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 105,898 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 120,954 ratings
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
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Katarina Bivald (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 44,966 ratings
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
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Allison Hoover Bartlett (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 13,782 ratings
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The Reader
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3.79 avg rating — 227,754 ratings
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Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 55,776 ratings
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The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1)
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Genevieve Cogman (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 64,331 ratings
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The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
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3.82 avg rating — 123,525 ratings
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The Library at Night
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Alberto Manguel (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 3,941 ratings
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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
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3.39 avg rating — 3,042 ratings
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The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 99,485 ratings
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Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 11,015 ratings
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The Boy Who Was Raised By Librarians
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4.15 avg rating — 2,469 ratings
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The Book of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things, #1)
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John Connolly (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 84,786 ratings
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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)
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Chris Grabenstein (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 60,801 ratings
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The Read-Aloud Handbook
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4.40 avg rating — 7,563 ratings
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Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 31,781 ratings
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At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
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4.07 avg rating — 1,056 ratings
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
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Molly Guptill Manning (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 8,457 ratings
score: 848,
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Among Others
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Jo Walton (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 25,600 ratings
score: 843,
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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3.81 avg rating — 2,839 ratings
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The Neverending Story
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4.18 avg rating — 217,380 ratings
score: 818,
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The Library: A World History
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4.41 avg rating — 472 ratings
score: 816,
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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
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4.25 avg rating — 2,226 ratings
score: 805,
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Library: An Unquiet History
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3.50 avg rating — 1,929 ratings
score: 767,
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The Borrower
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Rebecca Makkai (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 16,302 ratings
score: 766,
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Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction
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3.64 avg rating — 479 ratings
score: 754,
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Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
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3.57 avg rating — 1,305 ratings
score: 742,
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Love Story (Love Story, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 63,674 ratings
score: 740,
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Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
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4.05 avg rating — 2,216 ratings
score: 738,
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)
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Katherine Howe (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 57,906 ratings
score: 732,
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
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Matthew J. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 39,641 ratings
score: 729,
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The Book on the Bookshelf
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3.74 avg rating — 1,474 ratings
score: 723,
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The Strange Library
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3.55 avg rating — 68,216 ratings
score: 721,
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Please Bury Me in the Library
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J. Patrick Lewis (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 701 ratings
score: 713,
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Matilda
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4.33 avg rating — 1,084,371 ratings
score: 710,
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A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
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Harold Rabinowitz (Editor)
3.76 avg rating — 1,415 ratings
score: 704,
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How Reading Changed My Life
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3.82 avg rating — 4,445 ratings
score: 700,
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The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
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3.67 avg rating — 6,789 ratings
score: 693,
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Gutenberg's Apprentice
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Alix Christie (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 3,256 ratings
score: 675,
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The Library: An Illustrated History
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3.90 avg rating — 549 ratings
score: 671,
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Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy
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4.06 avg rating — 470 ratings
score: 660,
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The Library at Mount Char
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Scott Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 74,258 ratings
score: 658,
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
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Lewis Buzbee (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 2,831 ratings
score: 648,
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The Bookshop
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3.28 avg rating — 26,177 ratings
score: 646,
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Words in Deep Blue
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Cath Crowley (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 40,670 ratings
score: 641,
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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3.80 avg rating — 197,072 ratings
score: 637,
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Danse Macabre
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 30,772 ratings
score: 635,
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The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
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Abbi Waxman (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 110,133 ratings
score: 635,
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Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters
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3.58 avg rating — 11,168 ratings
score: 634,
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A Room of One’s Own
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4.22 avg rating — 250,220 ratings
score: 627,
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
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Avi Steinberg (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 4,314 ratings
score: 619,
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
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William Joyce (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 14,025 ratings
score: 619,
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The Monster at the End of this Book
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4.46 avg rating — 126,650 ratings
score: 615,
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More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
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Nancy Pearl (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 1,698 ratings
score: 591,
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
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3.46 avg rating — 1,995 ratings
score: 579,
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Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the 21st Century
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3.93 avg rating — 599 ratings
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Book of a Thousand Days
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 56,139 ratings
score: 561,
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Unshelved (Unshelved, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
score: 556,
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That Book Woman
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Heather Henson (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 2,537 ratings
score: 551,
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More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
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Jen Campbell (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 9,048 ratings
score: 543,
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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
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Marilyn Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 4,828 ratings
score: 542,
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The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World
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4.10 avg rating — 738 ratings
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I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
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Gina Sheridan (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 9,477 ratings
score: 530,
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The Midnight Library
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Matt Haig (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 2,327,861 ratings
score: 530,
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Book Scavenger (Book Scavenger, #1)
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Jennifer Chambliss Bertman (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 17,459 ratings
score: 522,
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The Bookman’s Tale
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Charlie Lovett (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 18,338 ratings
score: 515,
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The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
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Donalyn Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 18,517 ratings
score: 513,
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 198,548 ratings
score: 510,
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 136,418 ratings
score: 501,
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The Reading List
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Sara Nisha Adams (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 125,636 ratings
score: 491,
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The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus, #2)
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3.60 avg rating — 6,035 ratings
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My Reading Life
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3.95 avg rating — 8,209 ratings
score: 487,
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A Novel Bookstore
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3.50 avg rating — 4,172 ratings
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