Every comes with a fresh slate of books written about books, publishing, authors, printing, book selling, bookstores, book collecting, bibliophilia, book history, etc. This page is where I track those titles that most interest me and that I hope to read. The list is kept in reverse chronological order. So books dropping in January are at the bottom and December releases are at the top. Title entries that are bold are books that I have already bought and have begun reading or have read (it sounds like a lot of details, but this really is fun!)
Do you know of a book related book that I have missed? If so, please drop me a line info [at] booksaboutbooks.com and I’ll check it out to see if I’d like to add it to my to be read pile. Thanks!
Each book I read is a contender for the annual Books About Books Awards. Here is the 2023 Winner.
List of Titles Coming Out in 2024
- On Close Reading Paperback – December 23, 2024 by Professor John Guillory (Author)
- The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir – December 17, 2024 by Ramachandra Guha (Author)
- Tasting and Testing Books: Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book) – December 12, 2024 by Amy L. Blair (Author)
- The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries – December 3, 2024 by Andrew Hui (Author)
- Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel – November 19, 2024 by Edwin Frank (Author)
- The Book Lover’s Almanac: A Year of Literary Events, Letters, Scandals and Plot Twists – November 12, 2024 by Alex Johnson (Author)
- River of Books: A Life in Reading – November 5, 2024 by Donna Seaman
- Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality – October 29, 2024 by Lyta Gold (Author)
- Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers – October 15, 2024
by Kristopher Jansma (Author) - The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet – October 3, 2024 by Jeff Jarvis (Author)
- Salvage: Readings from the Wreck – October 1, 2024 by Dionne Brand (Author)
- Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II – September 24, 2024 by Elyse Graham (Author)
- Village Voices: A Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop, Paris, 1982-2012 – September 17, 2024 by Odile Hellier (Author)
- Book Nooks: Inspired Ideas for Cozy Reading Corners and Stylish Book Displays – September 17, 2024 by Vanessa Dina, Claire Gilhuly
- Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature – September 3, 2024 by John McMurtrie (Editor)
- Better Living through Literature: How Books Change Lives and (Sometimes) History – August 20, 2024 by Robin Bates (Author)
- Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print – August 19, 2024 by Melissa Reynolds (Author)
- Imagining Otherwise: How Readers Help to Write Nineteenth-Century Novels – August 13, 2024 by Debra Gettelman (Author)
- The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers’ Journey Through Curiosities of Literature – August 13, 2024 by Oliver Tearle (Author)
- American Contact: Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History – August 6, 2024 by Rhae Lynn Barnes (Editor) Glenda Goodman (Editor)
- The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore – August 6, 2024 by Evan Friss (Author)
- The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us – July 16, 2024 by Rachelle Bergstein (Author)
- Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book) – July 8, 2024 by Aakriti Mandhwani (Author)
- Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays Paperback – June 11, 2024 by Elisa Gabbert (Author)
- Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success – June 4, 2024 by Christine M. Larson
- A Therapeutic Library: 100 essential books that teach fulfilment, calm and well-being – June 4, 2024 by The School of Life (Author)
- Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution – June 4, 2024 by Professor Maurice S. Lee (Author)
- The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives – May 28, 2024 by Adam Smyth (Author)
- Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age – May 28, 2024 by Rachel B. Griffis (Author), Julie Ooms (Author)
- Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale – May 8, 2024 by Paul Yamazaki (Author)
- Why Books Still Matter: Honoring Joyce Meskis-Essays on the Past, Present, and Future of Books, Bookselling, and Publishing – May 7, 2024 by Karl Weber (Editor)
- Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations – May 7, 2024 by Peter Miller (Author)
- Hardly Harmless Drudgery: A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, and Obsessives Who Defined the English Language – April 30, 2024 by Bryan A. Garner (Author), Jack Lynch (Author)
- The Art of the Literary Poster – March 26, 2024 by Allison Rudnick (Author)
- Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs – January 23, 2024 by David Bellos (Author), Alexandre Montagu (Author)