The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
10 best books like The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read (Stuart Kelly): Parnassus on Wheels, Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books, The Book on the Bookshelf, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason, How Reading Changed My Life, Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books, Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life, Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
| Author | Christopher Morley |
| ISBN | 1414270658 |
This is a pilot for a new feel-good tv series:
Opening Credits:
It is a glorious morning on a deserted track somewhere in the rural Midwest. Rolling on the lane is a long gypsy-type wagon being pulled by a great big horse. On the open seat up front holding the reins is a cheery man of middle years...
Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside—to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants—and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding...
| Author | Henry Petroski |
| ISBN | 0375706399 |
"A fascinating history of two related common objects, impeccably documented and beautifully illustrated." —Civilization
Henry Petroski, "the poet laureate of technology" and author of the highly acclaimed The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things now sets his sights on perhaps...
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
| Author | Anne Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0374527229 |
Anne Fadiman is—by her own admission—the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material...
| Author | Nancy Pearl |
| ISBN | 1570614350 |
The response to Nancy Pearl's surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian and winner of the 2004 Women's National Book Award even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl's encyclopedic but discerning filter on books...
How Reading Changed My Life
| Author | Anna Quindlen |
| ISBN | 0345422783 |
A recurring theme throughout Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life is the comforting premise that readers are never alone. "There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books," she writes, "a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe...
Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
| Author | Lynne Sharon Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0807070831 |
(2.5) This 1996 memoir was sparked by reading a quote from a Chinese Buddhist in a New York Times article: he suggested that reading is dangerous as it imposes others’ ideas on you and doesn’t allow you to use your own mind freely. Schwartz, of course, begs to differ. As a novelist, reading has been...
| Author | Michael Dirda |
| ISBN | 0805083383 |
"As warm and stimulating as a library to which one returns again and again."
—Chicago Tribune (Editor's Choice)
While books contain insights into our selves and the world, it takes a conversation—between the author and the reader, or between two readers—to bring them fully to...
| Author | Phil Baines |
| ISBN | 0141024232 |
"Ever-since the creation of the first Penguin paperbacks in 1935, their jackets have become a constantly evolving part of Britain's culture and design history." By looking back at seventy years of Penguin paperbacks, Phil Baines charts the development of British publishing, book-cover design...
| Author | Nicholson Baker |
| ISBN | 0375726217 |
The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country's libraries—including the Library of Congress—have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult...
| Author | Robert Darnton |
| ISBN | 1586488260 |
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....
So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
"Gabriel Zaid's defense of books is genuinely exhilarating. It is not pious, it is wise; and its wisdom is delivered with extraordinary lucidity and charm. This is how Montaigne would have written about the dizzy and increasingly dolorous age of the Internet. May So Many Books fall into so many...
