Books on Books Suggestions (by Title)

The following list is from the Book Arts List, with help from Alice Simpson. It started when she asked for a list of fiction that had books as a central plot point. Bibliomysteries.com also has a list of suggested mystery titles.

The Mystery Readers Journal had an issue on bibliomysteries (mysteries that have settings, plots, or substantial characters related to the world of books, writers, archives, and libraries) in 2005. You can read several of the articles here.

In the list below, linked titles have a review on this blog. Books sorted by title, click on author to resort. Contact me if you have a title to add to the list.

Title Author
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay   Michael Chabon
The Angle Quickest for Flight   Steven Kotler
The Archivist   Martha Cooley
The Atrocity Archive   Charles Stross
Auto-da-Fe   Elias Canett
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress   Dai Sijie
The Big Over Easy   Jasper Fforde
The Blind Man of Seville   Robert Wilson
Blind Submission   Deborah Ginsberg
The Body in the Library   Agatha Christie
The Book Book   Steven Gilbar
Book Case   Stephen Greenleaf
The Book Thief   Markus Zusak
The Book of Air and Shadow   Michael Gruber
The Book of Lies   James Moloney
The Book of Lost Things   John Connolly
The Book on the Bookshelf   Henry Petroski
Book: A Novel   Robert Grudin
Booked to Die   John Dunning
The Bookman’s Wake   John Dunning
The Bookseller of Kabul   Asne Selerstad
The Bookshop   Penelope Fitzgerald
A Canticle for Lebowitz   Walter Miller
Celestial Chess   Thomas Bontly
Chasing Shakespeares   Sarah Smith
The Child That Books Built   Francis Spufford
The Club Dumas   Arturo Perez Reverte
Codex   Lev Grossman
A Cracking of Spines   Roy Harley Lewis
The Cure for Death: Lightning   Gail Anderson Dargatz
The Dante Club   Matthew Pearl
The Diamond Age   Neal Stevenson
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street   Helene Hanff
84, Charing Cross Road   Helene Hanff
Ex Libris   Ross King
The Eyre Affair   Jasper Fforde
Fahrenheit 451   Ray Bradbury
First Among Sequels   Jasper Fforde
The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime   Jasper Fforde
The Geographers Library   Jon Fasman
Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish   Richard Flanagan
The Grand Complication   Allen Kurzwell
The Haunted Bookshop   Christopher Morley
Homicide in Hardcover   Kate Carlisle
The House of Paper   Carlos Maria Dominguez
Housekeeping vs. the Dirt   Nick Horn
If Books Could Kill   Kate Carlisle
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler   Italo Calvino
The Illuminator   Brenda Rickman Vantrease
The Incredible Book-Eating Boy   Oliver Jeffers
The Ink Drinker   Eric Sanvoisin
Inkheart   Cornelia Funke
Inkspell   Cornelia Funke
The Italian Lover   Robert Hellenga
The Jane Austen Book Club   Karen Joy Fowler
The Journal of Dora Damage   Brenda Starling
The Key to Rebbeca   Ken Follett
The Know-It-All   A. J. Jacobs
Labyrinths   J. L. Borges
The Last Kabbalist In Lisbon   Richard Zimler
The Library At Night   Alberto Manguel
The Limehouse Text   Will Thomas
Lost in a Good Book   Jasper Fforde
Maps and Legends   Michael Chabon
The Marshal and the Mad Woman   Magdalen Nabb
Memory House   Lucia Graves
Mister Pip   Lloyd Jones
My Name is Red   Orhan Pamuk
The Name of the Rose   Umberto Eco
Necronomicon: Book of Dead Names   ed. George Hay
Night Train to Lisbon   Pascal Merci
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg   Philip Jose Farmer
Parnassus on Wheels   Christopher Morley
Patience and Fortitude   Nicholas A. Basbanes
People of the Book   Geraldine Brooks
The Polysyllabic Spree   Nick Hornby
Possession   A.S. Byatt
The Professor and The Madman   Simon Winchester
Q’s Legacy   Helene Hanff
A Rare Murder in Princeton   Ann Waldron
Reading Lolita in Tehran   Azar Nafisi
The Rock   Kanan Makiya
The Rule of Four   Ian Caldwell
Salamander   Thomas Wharton
The Secret of Lost Things   Sheridan Hay
The Shadow of the Wind   Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shelf Life   Ed. Greg Ketter
Sixpence House   Paul Collins
The Sixteen Pleasures   Robert Hellenga
Something Rotten   Jasper Fforde
Special Topics in Calamity Physics   Marisha Pessl
Suite Francaise   Irene Nemirovsky
The Thirteenth Tale   Diane Setterfield
Too Loud a Solitude   Ohumil Hrabal
Tunneling   Beth Bosworth
Uncataloged   Julie Kaewert
The Uncommon Reader   Alan Bennett
Unsolicited   Julie Kaewert
Vellum   Hal Duncan
The Well of Lost Plots   Jasper Fforde
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop   Lewis Buzbee