Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books

Q's Legacy

A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books

By
Helene Hanff
Helene Hanff
1985 • 177 pages

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17 books

Wish List

fakelly
Fiona
A Company of Swans
Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Alexander Hamilton
Reading in the Brain
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

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11 books

Commonbooksnyc

drukgeluk
Kris
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
A Severed Wasp
The Small Rain
Housekeeping
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books

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774 books

Paper Book

Pierke
Pierke
The Keys of Egypt
Becoming Winston Churchill: The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor
September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle
No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
The mistresses of Cliveden

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136 books

Favorites Nonfiction

Pierke
Pierke
A Short History of the World According to Sheep
Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good

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26 books

Book Publishing Reading

Pierke
Pierke
The Diary of a Bookseller
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
The Enchanted Hour
Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher
Boekenwurmen & ander ongedierte
84, Charing Cross Road

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114 books

Authors Language Literature

Pierke
Pierke
The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir
Daphne
C. S. Lewis - A Life
The End of Your Life Book Club
The Dangerous Edge of Things
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

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271 books

Memoir

DebNance
Deb Nance
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
The Egg and I
Squatters in Paradise: A Yellowstone Memoir
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

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249 books

Books About Books

DebNance
Deb Nance
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
The Wednesday Wars
Better Than Life
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Biblioholism
Beowulf on the Beach
Bad Things Happen

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248 books

Favorite Authors

Courtreader
Court
Eating Animals
Everything Is Illuminated
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet
The Tao of Pooh
The Polysyllabic Spree
Les Misérables

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224 books

Non Fiction

Courtreader
Court
The Personality Puzzle
Health Psychology
The Social Psychology of Gender: How Power and Intimacy Shape Gender Relations
The Thinking Eye, the Seeing Brain: Explorations in Visual Cognition
Psychology and Life
Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture
Revolution in the Head

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286 books

Merica

Courtreader
Court
Aristotle and an Aardvark Go To Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes
American Born Chinese
Travels with Charley
I Am America
America Again
A treasury of great American scandals
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

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180 books

Meta

Courtreader
Court
My Ideal Bookshelf
The Polysyllabic Spree
Housekeeping vs. the Dirt
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
The Uncommon Reader
The Elements of F*cking Style: A Helpful Parody

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39 books

2026 Reading Plan

mrsreily
Mrs. Reily
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Orthodoxy
The Best Cook in the World Tales from My Momma's Southern Table
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
The Case for Classical Christian Education
Rereadings
Empire of the Summer Moon

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23 books

Memoirs Essays and Biographies

mrsreily
Mrs. Reily
Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
Of Outlaws, Con Men, Whores, Politicians, and Other Artists
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
Confessions of a Heretic, Revised Edition
84, Charing Cross Road
A Room of One's Own
Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays