Books about books
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Books about books are literally books about books. Textbooks of literary history are also books on books.
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Examples
- The Romantic Agony (1930) by Mario Praz
- The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1970) by Tzvetan Todorov
- 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, various
- Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
- Stranger Shores: Literary Essays, 1986–1999 by Coetzee
- The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
- The Checklist of Fantastic Literature
- Fahrenheit 451
- Ninety-nine Novels
- Other Inquisitions 1937-1952
- Reading Lolita in Tehran
- The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
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Dutch
- Verzonken boeken (1986) by Komrij
- Vergeten boeken (1986) by Ed Schilders
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See also
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