The Library Book

The Library Book

By
Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean
2018

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48 books

Gc

Dragonflyely
Elysia
Year of Wonders
The Word Is Murder
The Woman in the Window
Wizard And Glass
The Witch Elm
Virgil Wander
Vanishing Acts

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1,331 books

Books Written By Women

leeleeski
Ash
Bohemian Manifesto
Fear of Fighting
Falling in Love with Natassia: A Novel
Russian Lover and Other Stories
College Girls
The PowerBook

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200 books

Nonfiction

leeleeski
Ash
500 Years of Chicana Women's History / 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana: Bilingual Edition
Virgin : The Untouched History
Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade
Pink Think
Flow
Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods V. Dame Cumming Gordon
Bachelor Girl

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164 books

Book Clubs

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traaSupporter
The Martian
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Psychology of Everyday Things
Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
Daydreamer
The best American science and nature writing 2013
The Devil in the White City

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294 books

Owned

BluebirdPI
Sarah
The Shining
Mexican Gothic
Toehold: A Novel
A Prayer For Owen Meany
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Best American Travel Writing 2005
Indian Killer

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462 books

My Library

BluebirdPI
Sarah
The Sisters Brothers
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Grapes of Wrath
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Looking for Alaska
Shadow Country
Andrew's Brain

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163 books

Nonfiction

labibliobecca
Becca
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
The Glass Castle
Daily Afflictions
Educated: A Memoir
Blink

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17 books

Professional Development

labibliobecca
Becca
Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain
Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought
Economies of Violence: Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism, and the Politics of Sex Trafficking
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
The Library Book
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent

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57 books

Favorites

Quinnster
Kari
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
The Last Time I Lied
They Called Us Enemy
No-No Boy
Broken
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
The Best We Could Do

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671 books

Library Watch

nekokat
Kat
Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet
Occupation Journal
Holding on to Reality
The Great Book of Amber
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life
The Morning Star: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine is Illuminated (Morning Star Trilogy, #3)

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791 books

History

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Spiritomb
The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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166 books

Microhistory

spiritomb
Spiritomb
Libraries in the Ancient World
Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart
101 Toughest Interview Questions: And Answers That Win the Job!
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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26 books

Libraries And Librarians

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Spiritomb
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
Read Dangerously
Cruising the library
Purity in Print
Imperiled Innocents
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library

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65 books

2023

Elizajworley
Elizabeth
Before You Knew My Name
People Person
The American Roommate Experiment
Lessons in Chemistry
The Art of Mindful Living
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

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83 books

Tbr No Pl

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Agnieszka
An Unkindness of Magicians
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone
Legendborn
Shtum
The First Last Kiss
The Lost
A Study in Charlotte

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108 books

2021 Challenge

Bhagya
Bhagya Shree
1Q84
Gravity's Rainbow
Interpreter of Maladies
Les Misérables
The Dutch House
The Bell Jar
Ivanhoe

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400 books

True Crime

ripley1616
Katie
La Dalia Negra
The Devil in the White City
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
The run of his life
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America
The Other Side: A Memoir
Tinseltown : Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood

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27 books

Non Fiction

GalwayBibliophile
Kyle
City of Quartz
The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
The Library Book
Red Carpet
Difficult Men

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56 books

2023

LisbethIvies
Lisbeth Ivies
Popsicle
This Cold Night
One Last Stop
Heartless

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37 books

Nonfiction

LisbethIvies
Lisbeth Ivies
Winning the War on Cancer: The Epic Journey Towards a Natural Cure
Absolute Disaster!: A Very British Guide to the Cinematic Apocalypse
The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know
The Voice in my Head is an Asshole
Unlearning the Ropes: The benefits of rethinking what school teaches you

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64 books

Books Read In 2019

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Hardcover Test Account
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Mercy River
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Sea Prayer
Still Me
Normal People
Idaho

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29 books

Aty 2023

LisbethIvies
Lisbeth Ivies
Heartless
One Last Stop
The Library Book
Ask Him Why

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73 books

Nonfiction

enterenchanted
Lory
Empty Mansions
How to be a Victorian
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
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