Books about Books

500 Great Books by Women: A Reader’s Guide, by Erica Bauermeister, Jesse Larsen, and Holly Smith

About the Author: The Passionate Reader’s Guide to the Authors You Love, Including Things You Never Knew, Juicy Bits You’ll Want to Know, and Hundreds of Ideas for What to Read Next, by Alfred Glossbrenner and Emily Glossbrenner

The Book Lover’s Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature and the Passages that Feature Them, by Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay Jensen

Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason, by Nancy Pearl

The Book That Changed My Life: Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists, edited by Diane Osen

Booknotes: America’s Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas, by Brian Lamb

Books that Made the Difference: What People Told Us, by Gordon and Patricia Sabine

Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction, by Marilyn R. Chandler

A Feast of Words: For Lovers of Food & Fiction, by Anna Shapiro

For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books they Love the Most, by Ronald B. Schwartz

Good Books Lately: The One-Stop Resource for Book Groups and Other Greedy Readers, by Ellen Moore and Kira Stevens

How Reading Changed My Life, by Anna Quindlen

A Literary Feast: Recipes and Writings by Amerian Women Authors from History, edited by Yvonne Schofer

Living by Fiction, by Annie Dillard

The Reading List-Contemporary Fiction: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works of 110 Authors, edited by David Rubel

Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books, by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Vintage Reading, from Plato to Bradbury: A Personal Tour of Some of the World’s Best Books, by Robert Kanigel

A Voice of One’s Own: Conversations with America’s Writing Women, by Mickey Pearlman and Katherine Usher Henderson

A Year of Reading: A Month-by-Month Guide to Classics and Crowd-Pleasers for You and Your Book Group, by Elizabeth Ellington and Jane Freimiller, Ph.D.