I love reading books about books!
I could spend forever paralyzed by choices because the list of what I want to read is so long....
I nominate
The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett. It has mystery and history so it seems like it might have universal appeal. Available in multiple countries as an ebook. Lovett is known for writing books about books.
From Goodreads:
Quote:
"What about the most valuable relic in the history of English literature—would that be worth killing for?"
Hay-on-Wye, 1995. Peter Byerly isn't sure what drew him into this particular bookshop. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him shattered. The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is shocked when a portrait of Amanda tumbles out of its pages. Of course, it isn't really her. The watercolor is clearly Victorian. Yet the resemblance is uncanny, and Peter becomes obsessed with learning the picture's origins.
As he follows the trail back first to the Victorian era and then to Shakespeare's time, Peter communes with Amanda's spirit, learns the truth about his own past, and discovers a book that might definitively prove Shakespeare was, indeed, the author of all his plays.
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