Great list, I look forward to checking some of these out! However, you should really add "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" by Italo Calvino! It's great fun to read, and a wonderful homage to books, language, readers, writers, publishers, booksellers, and book culture in general.

Mark wrote: "Great list, I look forward to checking some of these out! However, you should really add "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" by Italo Calvino! It's great fun to read, and a wonderful homage to book..."

Absolutely.

How can I "bookmark" or "save" this list for future reference?

Unfortunately, I don't think that's currently possible (unless you want to favorite it in your browser). Should be, though.

Lynn wrote: "How can I "bookmark" or "save" this list for future reference?"

Click of the green tag, upper right, "My Lists"....This list-of-your-lists will contain in order any list you posted anything on.

Thom wrote: "Lynn wrote: "How can I "bookmark" or "save" this list for future reference?"

Click of the green tag, upper right, "My Lists"....This list-of-your-lists will contain in order any list you posted an..."

Thanks!!

I can't believe the Thursday Next "Lost in a Good Book" series was omitted. How do I vote...?

Up at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."

I thought this was supposed to be a nonfiction list? There's a ton of fiction on here.

msleighm wrote: "I can't believe the Thursday Next "Lost in a Good Book" series was omitted. How do I vote...?"

Click on the tab, "Add books to this list", found to the right of the first item now on the list. If you have any difficulty, mail me inside GoodReads or on Facebook (Thom Dunn, Cincinnati)

Lobstergirl wrote: "I thought this was supposed to be a nonfiction list? There's a ton of fiction on here."

Hi there, L. G. ! Good to hear from you. I had in mind a nonfiction list but want a wide tent for people who have learned about bookmaking book---whatever from fiction. So for example I think "The Name of the Rose" informs readers about scribal habits. "82 Charring Cross" is borderline , I suppose, but look how many feel it belongs. .... "Let readers decide" has always been my credo.....but that includes you as well. I'd advise we start at the periphery and kick out irrelevant books from the bottom up.

Hmm ok. I was thinking in particular about a spamming author who spams her book onto hundreds of lists, and found a place for it here (it seems to be a novel about journalists, which is not really what you are talking about).

Also - Madame Bovary - where's the bookmaking in there? What am I missing? She gets lost in novels, but so do a lot of novel heroines. I don't think we would put "Northanger Abbey" on here, for instance.

Lobstergirl wrote: "Hmm ok. I was thinking in particular about a spamming author who spams her book onto hundreds of lists, and found a place for it here (it seems to be a novel about journalists, which is not really ..."

They should all go. Can you make it happen ? I am busy caring for a sick wife.

Sure, I'll do some pruning.

Lobstergirl wrote: "Sure, I'll do some pruning."

Much obliged. My wife has multiple myeloma and I am learning what it means to be a caregiver.

Oh no! I'm sorry to hear it.

Very sad to hear it, Thom.

L. G. and Suze: She has responded remarkably well to chemo and is working to regain her strength. A rewarding read on MM is Tom Brokaw's A Lucky Life Interrupted. Her case/response/treatment is comparable. And our, "Purpose holds, to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the western stars until [we] die."

Lobstergirl wrote: "Oh no! I'm sorry to hear it."

Lobstergirl wrote: "Oh no! I'm sorry to hear it."

See above.

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Very sad to hear it, Thom."

See above

That's good news.

#159 and #172 both Ten Years in the Tub.