What looks like good future reads for the BookishBookClub? These! Suggestions more than welcome (in fact, deeply encouraged!) from BBC memmbers
non-fiction wishlist for BookishBookClub Public
Created and curated by Bookish Book Club
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The Look of Love by Jennifer McKnight-Trontz
Swashbuckling sailors, dashing dukes, naughty nurses, and sexy steward-esses caught in webs of love, passion, betrayal, and intrigue: these are …
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The world's best books by Jay Satterfield
In October 1930, Macy's department store in New York City used the inexpensive book series "The Modern Library of the …
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George Palmer Putnam by Ezra Greenspan
George Palmer Putnam (1814–1872) was arguably the most important American publisher of the nineteenth century, a man fully and multiply …
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Forging history by Kenneth W. Rendell
Discusses the art of manuscript, document, and antiquity forgery, and explains how such fakes can be detected
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Burning Books and Leveling Libraries by Rebecca Knuth
Whether the product of passion or of a cool-headed decision to use ideas to rationalize excess, the decimation of the …
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A Place for Everything by Judith Flanders
From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything …
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How to do things with books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for …
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A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel
"In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called “the Casanova of reading,” argues that …
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The bookshop of the world : making and trading books in the Dutch golden age by Andrew Pettegree
The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world’s greatest bibliophiles.
The Dutch …
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Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles
Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are …
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Publisher's Paradise by Colette Colligan
From 1890 to 1960, some of Anglo-America's most heated cultural contests over books, sex, and censorship were staged not at …
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Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian by Ethelene Whitmire
The first African American to head a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL), Regina Andrews led an extraordinary …
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The book on the bookshelf by Henry Petroski
Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but …
