WELCOME to the letter T and to this year’s theme: BOOKSHOPS
Here is a link where you will find a long selection of novels, mysteries, and non-fiction about our favorite subject…..Books, and Bookshops. Click Here:
I love reading novels and mysteries that have to do with the world of books. Let me single out…..
The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zevin
The international literary sensation, about a boy’s quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget. Barcelona, 1945, a great city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child, Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona’s guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel’s father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax’s work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. He may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love. If he doesn’t find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly. Below further suggestions:
Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop
May Sarton’s The Education of Harriet Hatfield
Christoper Morley’s classics The Haunted Bookshop and Parnassus on Wheels
More recent offerings: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
84, Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff
People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books –Paul Collins The Bookman’s Promise (series) -John Donne