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Novel Destinations: A Travel Guide to Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West

10 best books like Novel Destinations: A Travel Guide to Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West (Shannon McKenna Schmidt): Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books, Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits, Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction, 500 Great Books By Women, 1001 Books for Every Mood, Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read, At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries, The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read, Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages, The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World

Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books
AuthorJenny Bond
The captivating stories behind fifty of the greatest authors and their most famous literary creations

Before Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara?, there had never been a single volume that explored the backstories of so many of the greatest books in the English language. A work sure to captivate all...
Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits
AuthorJack Murnighan
ISBN0307409570
Feel bad about not reading or not enjoying the so-called great books? Don’t sweat it, it’s not your fault. Did anyone tell you that Anna Karenina is a beach read, that Dickens is hilarious, that the Iliad’s battle scenes rival Hollywood’s for gore, or that Joyce is at his best when he’s talking...
Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction
AuthorTom Raabe
ISBN1555912400
A hilarious guide for book lovers that brings book addiction out of the closet.
Have you ever...
awakened, the morning after a book-buying spree, unable to remember how many you bought or how much you spent?
been reprimanded or fired for reading on the job?
purchased or rented...
500 Great Books By Women
AuthorErica Bauermeister
ISBN0140175903
Here is an articulate guide to more than 500 books written by women, a unique resource that allows readers the joy of discovering new authors as well as revisiting familiar favorites. Organized by such themes as Art, Choices, Families, Growing Old, Growing Up, Places and Homes, Power, and Work, this...
1001 Books for Every Mood
AuthorHallie Ephron
ISBN1598695851
What are you in the mood for?A little romance? Get swept away with Scarlett and Rhett, become enriched in Love in the Time of Cholera, or understand the pangs of want with Jane Eyre.A grand escape? Hit the high seas aboard Gulliver's several ships, slide down the rabbit hole alongside Alice, or shoot into...
Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read
AuthorHoward Mittelmark
ISBN0061856037
Read This Next is a guide to more than 500 great books, many of which you have not yet read. (On average, 481.) After you have read even one of these books, you will be amazed you survived without it this long. Multiply that by 481, and you get a lifetime of value for just $14.99 or even more value if you don’t...
At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
AuthorEstelle Ellis
ISBN0517595001
From an elegant, curved modern library with sunny picture windows to a bedroom library with dark wood paneling; from a simple apartment with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves to the grand Rothschild library, At Home with Books shows how book lovers live with their books in every room of the house.

Includes...
The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
AuthorStuart Kelly
ISBN1400062977
In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books...
Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages
AuthorMichael Popek
ISBN0399537015
It's happened to all of us: we're reading a book, something interrupts us, and we grab the closest thing at hand to mark our spot. It could be a train ticket, a letter, an advertisement, a photograph, or a four-leaf clover. Eventually the book finds its way into the world-a library, a flea market, other...
The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World
AuthorJacques Bosser
ISBN0810946343
"Housing the world's collective knowledge, within which reside the milestones of human intellectual achievement, libraries are perhaps the richest of all cultural institutions. Often architectural treasures in themselves, they were constructed in styles that befitted the riches they stored,...
Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers
AuthorNancy Pearl
ISBN1570616507
Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. With stops...
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them
AuthorRoxanne J. Coady
ISBN1592402100
With the goal of promoting literacy (and with proceeds going to the Read to Grow Foundation), here are 65 spirited testaments to the transformative power of reading from 65 distinguished contributors, as compiled by bookseller Roxanne Coady and editor Joy Johannessen.

Books change lives,...
Bibliotherapy: The Girl's Guide to Books for Every Phase of Our Lives
AuthorNancy Peske
ISBN0440508975
Because women read books differently than guys do...

Every woman knows ... books are more than a way to kill time on the bus — they're therapy that fits in our bag. Whether we're wallowing in a sullen perennial adolescence or our biological clock is ringing and we can't find the snooze button,...
Library: An Unquiet History
AuthorMatthew Battles
ISBN0393351459
Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries...
Great Books for Every Book Lover: 2002 Great Reading Suggestions for the Discriminating Bibliophile
AuthorThomas J. Craughwell
Can't decide what to read? Imagine a list of the greatest books described in concise, insightful and witty profiles to browse in search of the next perfect read. 2002 Great Books for Every Book Lover offers all this and more, reviewing each book with the wit and wisdom of a seasoned book critic in this unique...
Between the Covers: The Book Babes' Guide to a Woman's Reading Pleasures
AuthorMargo Hammond
ISBN0738212296
With wit and wisdom, the bibliophile’s Ebert & Roeper recommend more than 600 books based on what women care about most. Between the Covers is organized around their wide-ranging curiosity—about themselves, friends and family, the larger world—and their concerns, from health to sex...
Living With Books
AuthorAlan Powers
ISBN1579590241
Some people never have more than a shelf or two of books. Others are more committed: they hoard books, rearrange them, and seldom get rid of any. Living with Books, aimed at the latter group, addresses the challenges and joys of a home masquerading as a library, from storage to display to the use of books...
501 Must-Read Books
AuthorEmma Beare
ISBN0753714159
While I often agreed with the authors chosen, I did not always agree with the specific books of these chosen as their "best" works.

I also personally would have re-arranged the genre sections to have a proper non-fiction section.

..and how come we are doing SF and thrillers, but no horror...
The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
AuthorRobert Darnton
ISBN1586488260
The invention of writing was one of the most important technological, cultural, and sociological breakthroughs in human history. With the printed book, information and ideas could disseminate more widely and effectively than ever before—and in some cases, affect and redirect the sway of history....
A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
AuthorNicholas A. Basbanes
ISBN0060580801
In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in 2001 with Patience & Fortitude, a companion...
Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature
AuthorJulia L. Mickenberg
ISBN0814757200
Check out this interview with the author on C-SPAN! In 1912, a revolutionary chick cries, "Strike down the wall!" and liberates itself from the "egg state." In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand and unite to fight fascism. In 1972, Baby X grows up without a gender and is happy about it.

Rather...
Book Smart: Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genius in 365 Days
AuthorJane Mallison
ISBN0071482717
This is nothing more than a bound copy of any 1001/BBC Book List you can find on the internet, free. If you're still interested, definitely pick this up from your library.

'...each book comes alive with historical notes, highlights on key themes and characters, and advice on how to approach...
The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me about Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else
AuthorChristopher R. Beha
ISBN0802118844
In The Whole Five Feet, Christopher Beha turns to the great books for answers after undergoing a series of personal and family crises and learning that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics to educate herself during the Great Depression. Inspired by her example, Beha vows to read the entire...
Off the Beaten Page: The Best Trips for Lit Lovers, Book Clubs, and Girls on Getaways
AuthorTerri Peterson Smith
ISBN1613744269
Off the Beaten Page encourages avid readers, particularly those in book clubs and other groups, to leave the security of their living rooms and seek to experience in person the places they’ve read about. Inspired by years of excursions with her own book club, award-winning journalist Terri Peterson...
Books Do Furnish a Room
AuthorLeslie Geddes-Brown
ISBN1858944910
I’ve always said that hell is a world without books. I love books. I am surrounded by them and comforted by the words inside them. This may make for a somewhat biased review. However, if you are looking for a gift for a booklover who has everything, or for a designer or architect who needs some inspiration...
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