Weekly book recommendations for bibliophiles.

Yeongju is burned out. She did everything she was supposed to: go to school, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. In a leap of faith, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop. In a quaint neighborhood in …

Mr. Dickens and his Carol

Non-fiction
For Charles Dickens, each Christmas has been better than the last. His novels are literary

The Christmas Bookshop

Novel
Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options.

The Personal Librarian

Novel
A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black

The Lonely Hearts Book Club

Novel
A young librarian and an old curmudgeon forge the unlikeliest of friendships in this charming

Bibliomaniac

Memoir
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin

Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop

Memoir
Under the Tuscan Sun meets Diary of a Bookseller in this charming memoir by an Italian poet recounting

Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween

Non-fiction
The popularity of Halloween has spread around the globe to places as diverse as Russia,

Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

Non-fiction
Characterised by Shaun Bythell’s signature wit and humour, Seven Kinds of People You Find in

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Japanese
Set in the heart of Tokyo's bookworm paradise, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop transports readers

The Bookbinder of Jericho

Novel
It is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to
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