Lit Nerd Recommends: Books About Books

I challenge you to point me in the direction of an individual of a particularly bookish persuasion who does not like (read: love) books about books. Bit tricky that, isn't it? I for one, go week at the knees at the thought of reading books about books and it all started with Susan Hill. One particularly long day at uni I took a trip to Plymouth's Waterstones on my break (as I was frequently wont to do) and partook in some bibliotherapy in the form of Howards End is on the Landing. I'd always kind of liked the idea about reading about reading but never actually gone for it. Had I known I was in for such a treat, I would have gone for it sooner. Since then, I've not really looked back and I have read some brilliant books about books, both fiction and non-fiction. I'm going to share a few of my favourites with you to start off my new 'Lit Nerd Recommends' series.

Non-Fiction

1. Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill

2. How to be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis

3. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

4. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

5. The Library Book by Various

6. The Novel Cure by Susan Elderkin and Ella Berthoud

7. The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack

Fiction

1. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

2. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

3. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

4. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron

5. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

6. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

7. The Reader by Bernard Schlink

Have you read any of these? Can you recommend any books about books for me to try? Pile in!

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