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(25 Posts)I'm currently reading a novel set in a second hand bookshop after reading a non fiction book about working in a library. I loved both and realised lots of books I've read in the past and enjoyed are in this setting. Can anyone recommend any more? Thanks.
Absolutely loads listed here (Public Libraries News site)
www.publiclibrariesnews.com/useful/books-about-or-based-in-libraries
I have just had a google but am rubbish at linking. Good read.com gives a pretty long list of books set in libraries or bookstores. Have a browse 
Mr Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore by Robin Sloan. Unusual book, but I really enjoyed it.
Penelope Fitzgerald - The Book Shop
Here are our collated titles of books set in bookshops on Pinterest www.pinterest.co.uk/tripfiction/books-set-in-book-shops/
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken has a librarian as main protagonist. It is a bit quirky but a good read.
Adored Mr Penumbra and The book shop. The two I was reading were Lost for words by Stephanie Butland and Reading allowed by Chris Paling.
The giant's house sounds right up my street and those lists are great. Thank you.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is beautiful. For something frothy and sweet, Lost For Words is quite lovely, too.
Loved the thirteenth tale. One of my all time favourites.
84 Charing Cross Road
Love that one too.
The Bookstore
Not sure if this is really what you are after, but some books i have enjoyed a lot that have "books" as a central theme, even if not all set in a bookshop.
Chicklit - "Cover to Cover", Robert Craig
More serious non-fiction - "Maps and Legends", Michael Chabon
"Telling Tales", Melissa Katsoulis
"The child that books built", Francis Spufford.
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The invisible library - Genevieve Colman
Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Very intriguing and spooky!
Oh yes Shadow of the Wind is great.
And 84 Charing X Road.
I'm basically just seconding other people's suggestions !
Possession by A S Byatt.
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley. It's an Australian YA novel, and absolutely lovely.
Mrs Sinclair's Suitcase
Lost for Words by Stephanie Butland.
The 13th tale
The Mobile Library series by Ian Sansom; The Case Of The Missing Books, Mr Dixon Disappears and The Delegates' Choice are excellent.
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