• ADIMI, Kaouther: Our Riches (UK title: A Bookshop in Algiers) (B) - fiction
• AMLINGER, Carolin: Schreiben (B+) -- Eine Soziologie literarischer Arbeit
• APOSTOL, Gina: Bibliolepsy (A-) -- fiction
• ATHILL, Diana: Stet (B+) -- an editor's life
• AZAM ZANGANEH, Lila: The Enchanter (B+) -- Nabokov and Happiness
• BARON, Naomi S.: Words Onscreen (B) -- The Fate of Reading in a Digital World
• BAYARD, Pierre:
  • How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (A)
  • Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong (B) -- Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles
• BAZLEN, Roberto: Notes Without a Text (A-) -- includes his 'Editorial Letters'
• BENEDICT, Nora C.: Borges and the Literary Marketplace (-) -- How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading
• BLATT, Ben: Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve (B) -- What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing
• BLOM, Philipp: To Have and to Hold (B) -- on collecting
• BONNET, Jacques: Phantoms on the Bookshelves (B) -- book-mania
• BOYLE, James: Shamans, Software, and Spleens (A-) -- copyright
• BROTTMAN, Mikita: The Solitary Vice (C) -- Against Reading
• BUCKLEY, Paul (ed.): Penguin 75 (-) -- Designers, Authors, Commentary (the good, the bad ...)
• CALASSO, Roberto: The Art of the Publisher (B)
• CANBY, Sheila R.: The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp (-) -- The Persian Book of Kings
• CARLEY, James P.: The Books of King Henry VIII and his Wives (-)
• CHARPIN, Dominique: Reading and Writing in Babylon (B)
• CHONG, Phillipa K.: Inside the Critics' Circle (B) -- Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times
• COROBCA, Liliana: The Censor's Notebook (B) -- fiction
• CURREY, James: Africa Writes Back (B+) -- The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature
• DABASHI, Hamid: The Shahnameh (B) -- The Persian Epic as World Literature
• DANTZIG, Charles: Why Read ? (B+)
• DEUTSCH, Jeff: In Praise of Good Bookstores (B)
• DRY, Sarah: The Newton Papers (B) -- The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts
• DUNCAN, Dennis: Index, A History of the (B+) -- A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
• ECO, Umberto: Confessions of a Young Novelist (B)
• EMMERICH, Michael: The Tale of Genji (B+) -- Translation, Canonization, and World Literature
• EPSTEIN, Jason: Book Business (B+)
• ERDAL, Jennie: Ghosting (A-) -- working at Quartert Books
• ESTERMANN, Alfred: Schopenhauers Kampf um sein Werk (B+) -- Schopenhauer and his publishers
• FELSCH, Philipp: How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold (B) -- Tale of a Redemption
• FOURNEL, Paul: Dear Reader (B+) -- publishing novel
• FRANCIS, Gavin: Sir Thomas Browne (B) -- The Opium of Time
• GILLIERON, Rebecca: The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs (-) (with Catheryn Kilgarriff)
• HAMILTON, Hugo: The Pages (B) -- novel, narrated by a book
• HENDERSON, Jeffrey (ed.): The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny (B+) (with Richard Thomas)
• HENDRIX, Grady: Paperbacks from Hell (B) -- The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
• GRENIER, Roger: Palace of Books (A-)
• GROSSMAN, Edith: Why Translation Matters (B)
• HILL, Charlie: Books (B) -- a killer-novel novel
• HITCHINGS, Henry: Dr.Johnson's Dictionary (US title: Defining the World) (B+)
• HOCKX, Michel: Internet Literature in China (B)
• HORTA, Paulo Lemos: Marvellous Thieves (B+) -- Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights
• JACKSON, Kevin: Invisible Forms (B+) - literary curiosities
• KALDER, Daniel: The Infernal Library (UK title: Dictator Literature) (B) -- On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
• KARASHIMA David: Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami (B)
• KELLY, Stuart: The Book of Lost Books (B-) - An Incomplete History of all the Great Books You'll Never Read
• KONSTANTINOU, Lee: The Last Samurai Reread (B) -- the Helen DeWitt novel
• KORDA, Michael:
  • Another Life (B+) -- the publishing industry
  • Making the List (C) -- the bestseller lists
• LAHIRI, Jhumpa: The Clothing of Books (B)
• LANE, Eric: Dante Alighieri's Publishing Company (B) -- a fictionalized story of the founding of Dedalus
• LARSON, Charles R.: The Ordeal of the African Writer (B)
• LESSER, Wendy: Scandinavian Noir (B) -- In Pursuit of a Mystery
• LEWY, Guenter: Harmful and Undesirable (B+) -- Book Censorship in Nazi Germany
• LOPEZ jr., Donald S.: The Tibetan Book of the Dead (B+) - A Biography
• LÜTHI, Louis: A Die With Twenty-Six Faces (B+) -- alphabet books
• MANGUEL, Alberto:
  • Fabulous Monsters (B+) -- Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends
  • The Library at Night (B)
  • Packing My Library (B)
  • A Reading Diary (B)
• MANNING, Sean (ed.): Bound to Last (B) -- 30 Writers on their Most Cherished Book
• MANUTIUS, Aldus: The Greek Classics (-) -- prefaces of Aldine press volumes
• MARCUS, James: Amazonia (A-) -- Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut
• MARTINEZ, Cyrille: The Dark Library (B) -- a novel
• McGURL, Mark: Everything and Less (B+) -- The Novel in the Age of Amazon
• MEHRING, Walter: The Lost Library (B) -- The Autobiography of a Culture
• MENDELSUND, Peter: What We See When We Read (-) -- A Phenomenology
• MOGINET, Stefan F.: Writing Arabic (-) -- From Script to Type
• MOORE, Steven: Dalkey Days (B) -- a Dalkey Archive Press memoir
• MORGAN, Ann: Reading the World (US title: The World Between Two Covers) (B) - Confessions of a Literary Explorer
• MOTTE, Warren: Mirror Gazing (B+) -- mirror-scenes in his reading
• MYERS, B.R.: A Reader's Manifesto (B)
• O'NEILL, Patrick: Finnegans Wakes (-) -- Finnegans Wake in translation
• {ORTHOFER, M.A.: The Complete Review: Eleven Years, 2500 Reviews -- A Site History}
• PATRY, William: How to Fix Copyright (B+)
• POOL, Gail: Faint Praise (A-) -- The Plight of Book Reviewing in America
• PULLEYN, Simon (ed.): Homer: Odyssey, Book I (A-)
• QUEENAN, Joe: One for the Books (B) -- his reading life
• RHODES, Dan: Sour Grapes (B-) - literary establishment satire
• RÍOS, Julián: The House of Ulysses (B+) -- a fictional reading of Joyce's classic
• ROBERTS, Geoffrey: Stalin's Library (B) -- A Dictator and His Books
• ROSE, Mark: Authors in Court (A-) -- Scenes from the Theater of Copyright
• RUSSELL, R.B.: Fifty Forgotten Books (B)
• RYBACK, Timothy W.: Hitler's Private Library (B+) -- The Books That Shaped His Life
• SAFOUAN, Moustapha: Why are the Arabs not Free ? (B) - The Politics of Writing
• SANTANA-ACUÑA, Álvaro: Ascent to Glory (B+) - How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic
• SCHIFFRIN, André:
  • The Business of Books (B+)
  • Words and Money (B-)
• SCHMIDT, Michael: Gilgamesh (B) -- The Life of a Poem
• SECORD, James A.: Victorian Sensation (A-) -- study of a literary sensation
• SHEA, Ammon: Reading the OED (B+) -- One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
• SIMMONS, Charles: The Belles Lettres Papers (B-) -- fiction
• SINYKIN, Dan: Big Fiction (B) -- How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
• SKURNICK, Lizzie: Shelf Discovery (B) -- The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
• SMITH, Emma: Shakespeare's First Folio (B+) -- Four Centuries of an Iconic Book
• SPACKS, Patricia Meyer: On Rereading (B)
• SPOO, Robert: Without Copyrights (B) -- Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain
• SPUFFORD, Francis: The Child That Books Built (B) -- reading memoir
• SPURLING, Hilary: The Girl from the Fiction Department (B) -- A Portrait of Sonia Orwell
• STANDAERT, Michael: Skipping Towards Armageddon (B) -- The Politics and Propaganda of the Left Behind Novels and the LaHaye Empire
• STEINBERG, Jacob: I Never Had a Best-Seller (B) -- The Story of a Small Publisher
• STEINER, George: My Unwritten Books (A-)
• STONE, Brad: The Everything Store (B) -- Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
• TABAN Lo Liyong: Another Last Word (B) -- East African literature and politics
• THOMPSON, John B.: Merchants of Culture (B+) - The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
• UGRESIC, Dubravka: Thank You for Not Reading (B+) -- Essays in Literary Trivia
• VENUTI, Lawrence: The Scandals of Translation (B+)
• WACHTEL, Andrew Baruch: Remaining Relevant after Communism (B+) -- The Role of the Writer in Eastern Europe
• WALSH, Megan: The Subplot (B) -- What China Is Reading and Why It Matters
• WATERS, Lindsay: Enemies of Promise (B+) -- Publishing, Perishing and the Eclipse of Scholarship
• WINCHESTER, Simon:
  • The Man Who Loved China (UK title: Bomb, Book and Compass) (B) -- the story behind Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China
  • The Meaning of Everything (B+) -- The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
  • The Professor and the Madman (UK title: The Surgeon of Crowthorne) (B+) -- more on the making of the OED
• ZAID, Gabriel:
  • The Secret of Fame (B+)
  • So Many Books (A-) -- Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
• ZANE, J.Peder (ed.): The Top Ten (-) -- Writers Pick their Favorite Books

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