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Not sure if these would fit in your category, but some fictional works I enjoyed:

 

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (a book for people who love books)

People of the Book

The Book Thief (though I'm guessing you've already read this)

The Shadow of the Wind

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For nonfiction, I recently read Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman and liked it very much. :-)

 

Oh, this was such a wonderful read, and I've never met anyone else who's read it! So glad to see another Fadiman fan. (Have you read The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down? That was one of the most powerful books I ever read. I now have her dad's collection of mathematically-oriented fiction.)

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Oh, this was such a wonderful read, and I've never met anyone else who's read it! So glad to see another Fadiman fan. (Have you read The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down? That was one of the most powerful books I ever read. I now have her dad's collection of mathematically-oriented fiction.)

 

I was going to recommend Ex Libris, but I see I don't need to. I love both of these.

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The Dante Club

The Professor and the Madman (about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary)

The Eyre Affair

The City of Dreaming Books

My Name is Red

 

You'll have to post your list of ones you've read already!! Hint, hint... ;):D

 

The only one you've listed that I haven't read is My Name is Red.

 

Here is is what I can remember off hand:

(These all have a connection to books in some way, if even loosely.)

 

March

People of the Book

The Book Thief

The Year of Living Biblically

The Name of the Rose

The Eyre Affair and Sequels

The Historian

The Shadow of the Wind

The Dante Club

The Last Dickens

The Poe Shadow

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

84 Charing Cross Road

The Guersey Literary and Potato Peel Society

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The Thirteenth Tale

Farenheit 451

 

 

Thanks for all the answers, everyone! I have a few more to add to my list and quite a few leads to new books. I'm very happy!

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