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Originally Posted by issybird
[...] Early this year, I read, that is, abandoned, The Library Book by Susan Orleans [...]
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I picked that up on special a couple of months ago, thinking it sounded good. I have not tried to read it yet. Not sure why it didn't occur to me to nominate it ... probably because I was already spoilt for choice. A few books I did think about
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The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot. HarryT mentioned this on another thread some time ago, and it sounds interesting. But it's also very long and very expensive.
Empires of the Word: A language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler. So this one might have been a stretch for the theme, since it's not specifically about books, but it's been on my wish list for a long while. It is also quite long and very expensive.
There were more, but some were excluded on the grounds that I couldn't find ebook editions.