Book mentions in this thread
How to Read a Book
by Mortimer Jerome Adler
Analyzes the art of reading and suggests ways to approach literary works
Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate charges of heresy against Franciscan monks at a wealthy Italian abbey but finds his mission overshadowed by seven bizarre murders.
The Footnote
by Anthony Grafton
A History of Reading
by Alberto Manguel
The Information
by Martin Amis
Nabokov's Favourite Word Is Mauve
by Ben Blatt
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
by Jorge Luis Borges
The Possessed
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Demons is an anti-nihilistic novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is the third of the four great novels written by Dostoyevsky after his return from Siberian exile, the others being Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. Demons is a social and political satire, a psychological drama, and large scale tragedy.
A Gentle Madness
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Reader's Block
by David Markson
The Nature of the Book
by Adrian Johns
El infinito en un junco
by Irene Vallejo
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
What We See When We Read
by Peter Mendelsund
A Solemn Pleasure
by Melissa Pritchard
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners, Guy Montag, suddenly realizes their merit.
New Grub Street (Oxford World's Classics)
by George Gissing
Literature and the Gods
by Roberto Calasso
The Book on the Bookshelf
by Henry Petroski
The Library
by James W. P. Campbell
Criticism
by Walter Jackson Bate
Water Me Next Week
by Ma Theresa Ebro