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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Leave me alone with the recipes by Sarah Rich, Wendy MacNaughton, Debbie Millman, and 1 other
When Rich and MacNaughton discovered a painted manuscript at an antiquarian book fair, it drew them in like a magnet. …
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Paper machines : about cards & catalogs, 1548-1929 by Markus Krajewski
Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.
Today on almost …
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Speaking Volumes by David Pearson
A fascinating catalog that analyzes books as historical objects.
Scholars increasingly recognize that the cultural and research value of books …
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Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day by Barbara Heritage, Ruth-Ellen St. Onge
Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day offers a carefully curated overview of how books have …
Sarah says: I haven't read yet but I hear rumors that it does a decent job of including non-western textual objects and that there are lots of pictures
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Organizing Women by Christine Pawley
In the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing more women than …
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Old Books and New Histories by Leslie Howsam
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Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are …
Sarah says: if we wanted to think about “book history” as a discipline, this is a great short book that thinks about how historians, literary scholars, and bibliographers all approach book history with different questions and methodologies
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White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture by Alexandra Dane
Despite initiatives to 'diversify' the publishing sector, there has been almost no transformation to the historic racial inequality that defines …
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Book Clubs and Book Commerce by Corinna Norrick-Rühl
In the twentieth century, cumulative millions of readers received books by mail from clubs like the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Book …
