People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (2008)
Offered a coveted job to analyze and conserve a priceless Sarajevo Haggadah, Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the volume's ancient binding that reveal its historically significant origins. Inspired by the true story of the Sarajevo Haggadah, Brooks has imagined a thrilling mystery and a history that has ramifications in our own time.
The Librarian by Larry Beinhart (2004)
University librarian David Goldberg begins a side job as a conservative activist, a position that lands him in hot water with a conspiratorial clique of wealthy right-wingers who want him gone. The plot turns in funny directions and comic as it is, the novel completely engages interest as a thriller from start to finish.
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken (1996)
The story of an unusual friendship between a lonely librarian and an extremely tall young man, and how their growing relationship benefits them both. This National Book Award Finalist is a warm, compelling, and convincing story of the transforming power of love.
In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians by Michael Cart (2002)
This work contains contributions from such major figures as Borges, Cheever, Alice Munro and Ray Bradbury who carry the day here. It is assembled by former librarian, Michael Cart. "The Library of Babel" is the best of the bunch, with its thought-provoking musings on the possibilities of an "infinite" library.
The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom (2007)
Israel Armstrong, a new Emerald Isle bookmobile attendant, discovers that the roving library's 15,000 books have disappeared and that he cannot resign from his job until he finds them. Despite his unheroic demeanor, Israel is a champion against bullshit and bureaucracy in the service of books.
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton (2007)
Establishing a bookmobile in a destitute Kenyan village, well-intentioned Fiona Sweeney inadvertently renews a decades-old tribal feud involving a camel-powered bookmobile and prior efforts to promote local education. Hamilton has created a poignant, ennobling, and buoyant tale of risks and rewards, surrender and sacrifice.
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2003)
On the surface, Henry and Clare are a normal couple living in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Henry works at the Newberry Library and Clare creates abstract paper art. They are passionately in love and vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.
The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil (2001)
\Confronted by both professional and personal crises, reference librarian Alexander Short gains a new lease on life when he meets Henry James Jesson III, who hires him for some research into an enigmatic eighteenth-century inventor. This is a delightfully intricate mystery that offers a thought-provoking meditation on the problem of identity.
The Archivist by Martha Cooley (1998)
A battle of wills between Matt, a careful, orderly archivist for a private university, and Roberta, a determined young poet, over a collection of T. S. Eliot's letters, sealed by bequest until 2019, sparks an unusual friendship and reawakens painful memories of the past. Much of Cooley's unusual novel flows like a psychological thriller.
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