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Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Sunny is an American-raised albino girl who recently moved back to Nigeria. She is befriended by a boy at school and his weird friend Chichi. Chichi doesn’t go to school. She stays at home with her mother in a shack. Sunny is surprised to find that the shack contains thousands of books that cover every surface and Chichi studies them all.
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Lady Trent was a bookish young lady whose passion for learning lead her to go on an expedition to study dragons and eventually write the best books on the subject.
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
A.J. Fikry owns a bookstore and has very certain ideas about what people should be reading. These ideas don’t usually jibe with what his customers want to read.
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
All the trouble in this book comes from finding a missing manuscript with illustrations pertaining to alchemy. Suddenly everyone wants it and the person who found it can’t make it appear again.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Imagine if the Library at Alexandria had never burned. Instead it kept getting more and more powerful until it controlled all the books in the world. Everyone has access to digital copies of all books but no one is allowed to own a physical copy. Paper books are the biggest thing on the black market.
Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America’s Languages by Elizabeth Little
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The author of this book loves to spend her time reading grammar guides in different languages. She sets off to find out the story behind small pockets of language in the United States, such as Crow in South Dakota, Norwegian in Minnesota, Creole in Louisiana, and Basque in Nevada.
Gutenberg’s Apprentice by Alix Christie
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The ultimate book nerds! This is an historical fiction take on the workshop that produced the first printing press.
The Fort at River’s Bend by Jack Whyte
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is part of my favorite historical fiction series of all time. It is a retelling of the Camelot story without all the magic. By this point, the series is focusing on Merlynn. He is a very educated man who uses what he has learned in books to appear magical to the people around him.
I first read this one pre-book blogging.
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Tuesday Next is a Book Agent. She can go into a book and interact with the characters. She’s part of the law enforcement for the Book World. This is one of my favorite fictional worlds.
I first read this one before I wrote a lot about books on the blog too.
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
When he is 11, Daniel is introduced to the Cemetery of Lost Books. He is allowed to pick one. He chooses one written by Julian Carax and falls in love. As an adult he tries to find other books by that author but discovers that someone in Barcelona is destroying them.
You know already I loved Shadow of the Wind, I own Storied Life but haven’t read it yet and I want to read Discovery of Witches. Great list! Thanks for sharing with Small Victories Sunday Linkup last week. Pinning to our linkup board and hope you joined us again this weekend.
I’ve read a number of these and want to read all of the ones I was unfamiliar with! Visiting via the Lit Lovers Link Up.
Heather, found my way over from the #LitLovers link up — this is such a great list! I lvoe the diversity in it and the characters! Will rec this at the end of the week on my blog!
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I enjoyed Shadow of the Wind (more the 2nd time I read it). And one of my book groups is reading AJ Fikry for September – I can’t wait! These other titles are all new to me, but I love a book with book-loving character(s)!
I found you through the Daily Mayo link-up.
Sue
2015 Big Book Summer Challenge
AJ Fikry seems like it would be a great book club read. Hope you enjoy it.
Some great suggestions. The only one on this list I’ve read is “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry” (which I enjoyed), but I’d love to read more bookish books
I haven’t read any of those, but a few are on my TBR so it’s good to know that some characters in these books are fellow book nerds. It makes me want to read them more !
A.J. and Jess are both on my list. I’ve never heard of AKATA WITCH — it sounds really interesting.
Happy TTT!
admittedly i haven’t heard of many of these books before, but i have heard of A History of Dragons and i want to read it! knowing there’s a bookish character in it will definitely up my motivation to get started on this book! great TTT post this week!
Emily @ http://www.wholly-books.com