- 224 pages
- English
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About this book
Perfect gift for book lovers, writers and your book club
Book lovers rejoice! In this love letter to all things bookish, Jane Mount brings literary people, places, and things to life through her signature and vibrant illustrations.
Readers of Jane Mount's Bibliophile will delight in:
- Touring the world's most beautiful bookstores
- Testing their knowledge of the written word with quizzes
- Finding their next great read in lovingly curated stacks of books
- Sampling the most famous fictional meals
- Peeking inside the workspaces of their favorite authors
A source of endless inspiration, literary facts and recommendations: Bibliophile is pure bookish joy and sure to enchant book clubbers, English majors, poetry devotees, aspiring writers, and any and all who identify as book lovers.
If you have read or own: I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life; The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, and Civilization; or How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines; then you will want to read and own Jane Mount's Bibliophile.
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 9
Kids’ Picture Books 13
Beloved Bookstores 14
BooksActually / Charis Books & More / Politics and Prose
Bookstore Cats 16
Formative Faves 19
Beloved Bookstores 20
Strand Bookstore
Girl Stars 22
Bookish People Recommend 24
Travis Jonker / Maris Kreizman / Maria Popova / Andrew Medlar / Adah Fitzgerald / Julia Hobart
Coming of Age 27
Beloved Bookstores 28
John K. King Used & Rare Books / Librairie D+Q
Cult Classics 30
Striking Libraries 32
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University / The Rampur Raza Library / Vennesla Library and Culture House / Central Library, National Autonomous University of Mexico / National Library of Korea, Sejong
Novels of the 1800s: Brit Lit & Friends 34
Editions: Pride and Prejudice 36
Writing Rooms 38
Henry David Thoreau / Jane Austen
Novels of the Early 1900s: Disenchantment 41
Beloved Bookstores 42
Daikanyama Tsutaya / Unity Books / Type Books
Mid-Century Novels: Losing It 45
Iconic Covers 46
Novels of the late 1900s: Greed & Growth 49
Beloved Bookstores 50
Sappho Books / Powell’s
Novels of the Millennium: Optimistic...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Kids’ Picture Books
- Beloved Bookstores
- Bookstore Cats
- Formative Faves
- Beloved Bookstores
- Girl Stars
- Bookish People Recommend
- Coming of Age
- Beloved Bookstores
- Cult Classics
- Striking Libraries
- Novels of the 1800s: Brit Lit & Friends
- Editions: Pride and Prejudice
- Writing Rooms
- Novels of the Early 1900s: Disenchantment
- Beloved Bookstores
- Mid-Century Novels: Losing It
- Iconic Covers
- Novels of the late 1900s: Greed & Growth
- Beloved Bookstores
- Novels of the Millennium: Optimistic Confusion
- Writer-Owned Bookstores
- Novels of the 21st Century: The Shrinking World
- Beautiful Contemporary Covers
- Historical Fiction
- Types of Fiction
- Southern Lit
- Beloved Bookstores
- Love & Romance
- Songs about Books
- Unhappy Families Each in Their Own Way
- Writer-Owned Bookstores
- Book Club Darlings
- Five-Word Synopsis Quiz
- Mysteries
- Books Made into Great Movies
- Fantasy
- Bookish People Recommend
- Beloved Bookstores
- Special Powers
- Striking Libraries
- Dystopia
- Editions: Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Technothrills & Cyberpunks
- Bookmobiles & More
- Space & Aliens
- Fictional Planet Universe
- Graphic Novels & Comics
- Beloved Bookstores
- Short Stories
- Beloved Bookstores
- Poetry
- Writing Rooms
- Essays
- Bookish People Recommend
- Nature & Animals
- Writers’ Pets
- Us and the Universe
- Beloved Bookstores
- A Sense of Place
- Beloved Bookstores
- Journeys & Adventures
- Read around the World
- Regional Cooking
- Beloved Bookstores
- Reference Cookbooks
- Novel Food
- Everyday Food Inspiration
- Beloved Bookstores
- Baking & Desserts
- Bookish People Recommend
- Food Writing
- Beloved Bookstores
- Biographies & Autobiographies
- World-Changing Book People
- Memoirs
- Beloved Bookstores
- Feminism
- Writing Rooms
- We’re All Human
- Little Free Libraries
- History
- Beloved Bookstores
- War
- Books Made into Great TV
- Mortality
- Striking Libraries
- Finding Meaning
- Beloved Bookstores
- How to Write
- The Physical Book
- Creativity & the Pursuit of Happiness
- Writing Rooms
- Bookish People Recommend
- Sports
- Striking Libraries
- Innovation & Business
- All-Time Bestsellers
- Design
- Designers’ Picks
- Beloved Bookstores
- Picture Books for Grown-Ups
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography & Credits
- About the Author
- Chronicle EBooks