The Book on the Bookshelf

The Book on the Bookshelf

By
Henry Petroski
Henry Petroski
1999 • 290 pages

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276 books

Home Library

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Holly
Lady Knight
Squire
First Test
Ten Poems to Set You Free

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725 books

Interesting To Check

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Marie Claude Gagnon
Celui qui reste
I Let You Go
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
The English Patient
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
The Golden Compass
The High Mountains of Portugal

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1,214 books

I Don T Own

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Kirsten
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Black Tongue
The Trouble With Poetry - And Other Poems
Brother
Lullaby
Saga, Vol. 2

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251 books

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Sarah
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
Victoria's Daughters
The Psychopath Test
Breasts a natural and unnatural history
The Pluto Files
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

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73 books

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Sarah
Blue Moon Rising
Changes
Swords of Haven
Slashback
The Book of Lost Things
The Four Fingers of Death

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490 books

Social History

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Spiritomb
Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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166 books

Microhistory

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Libraries in the Ancient World
Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart
Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart
Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding
Sweat
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
The Royal Art of Poison

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20 books

Information Science

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Sorting Things Out
BiblioTech
Library: An Unquiet History
The Book on the Bookshelf
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
A Brief History of the Book: From Tablet to Tablet

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27 books

Books

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Read Dangerously
Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired
Dark Archives
Purity in Print
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
BiblioTech