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Books Set In a Bookstore or Library

84, Charing Cross Road

Helen Hanff 

The definitive book about bookstores. Helen Hanff, an American freelance writer, shared her epistolary friendship with a London bookseller

The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

Shauna Robinson

Maggie Banks has no direction in her life.  When she covers for a friend at a bookstore (that isn't allowed to sell well known books) she finds a purpose, a place to be, and love

 The Book Shop of Yesterdays

Amy Meyerson

Miranda Brooks is in over head trying to run the bookstore she inherits from a long lost relative

The Bookseller's Secret

Michelle Gable 

The Mayfair Bookshop

Eliza Knight

 Both books tell the story of British author Nancy Mitford working in a bookshop in WWII London

The Library of Lost Things (Y A)

Laura Namey Taylor 

Darcy Wells meets Asher Fleet at her after school bookstore job.  Can she let him into her tumultuous home life?

The Lost For Words Bookshop

Stephanie Butland 

Loveday Cardew faces up to her tragic past in the solace of her work at a bookstore

The Personal Librarian

Marie Benedict / Victoria Christopher Murray 

Belle de Costa Greene, a black woman who passed as white, served as J.P. Morgan's personal book collector

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

Katarina Bivald 

Sarah, from Sweden, moves to Broken WheeI, Iowma to meet her bookish pen pal Amy.  But by the time Sarah arrives in hometown, Amy has died. Sarah stays and re-establishes the town bookstore 

 

Recommended For You  (Y A)

Laura Silverman

Teen Shoshanna tries to best rival Jake in a book sales contest

 

Three Junes 

Julia Glass

Fenno, a Scottish transplant to America, operates a travel based bookstore in New York city