books about books and authors?

Question

I love books that have characters that refer to and love to read books, and I also like books whose characters are novelists. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Beauty by Robin McKinley
Misery by Stephen King
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (most of her other books are better, especially her adult novels.)
I second the Emily books by Montgomery
Warmly Inscribed by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone --a memoir of rare book collectors reads like a novel
The Historian by Kostova and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Clarke sort of fit your description. Good books both.
Sabriel by Garth Nix


How about autobiographies of novelists?

Answer 2

a million. a woman has to income to handle her obsessive finding out to purchase and debt. -- Confessions of a Shopaholic. 2. a young person is going to a boarding college, yet is greeted with the help of a bad team of girls. -- private. 3. a woman is at a occasion, whilst she kisses the boy of her desires. The onl situation is that he suffocates throughout the time of the kiss. ?? 4. A boy gets a gaggle of tapes from a woman who at the instant commited suicide. ?? 5. a woman is going to a school that his secretly a school for spies. ?? 6. a guy is caught in a food market along with his son, whilst terrifying monsters attack. ?? 7. a woman is presented to a clean international whilst she witnesses a mysterious homicide at a occasion. ?? 8. a woman discovers she's a vampyre, and is sent to a school for babies like herself. -- living house of night 9. a woman is sent to a psychological instution, after seeing a ghost. ?? 10. A boy (in a wolf experience) is going to a paranormal land the place monsters roam. ?? 11. A chook woman and her family contributors are working from a team of scientists. ?? 12. a woman walks right into a door and into yet another international, which isn't what it kind of feels. -- Narnia 13. 2 orphans are sent to a city, the place anybody is a fairytail creature. ?? 14. A boy is presented to a clean, unusual woman in school. -- Stargirl 15. After her family contributors dies in a automobile crash, a teenage woman has to start up a clean existence, together with her new physic understanding. ?? sixteen. a woman is under a spell, which motives her to do something that somebody instructions her to do. -- Ella Enchanted 17. a woman chokes on a gummy undergo, and returns as a ghost. yet that doesn't end her pursuit to be extensive-unfold ?? Sorry... this become a pathetic attempt. I could bypass and study...

Answer 3

You should find "The Shadow of the Wind"; unfortunately, I forget the author (he's Spanish) and my sister has the book now. Anyway, it takes place in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and follows a young boy growing up, falling in love and in danger. The major plot driver is his copy of a novel (and it turns out to be the only extant copy), the secret library it comes from, and the mysterious person who has been taking all the books written by the novel's author and burning them. It's been compared to some of Dickens' works, and there are enough dark plot twists to merit that.

Answer 4

A lot of Stephen King's novels feature main characters that are novelists. For example: "The Dark Half", "Lisey's Story", "The Tommyknockers", and "Secret Window Secret Garden" (short story).

John Irving has also written a couple of books with main characters as authors, like "The World According to Garp" and "A Widow for One Year." Another one I can think of is "Lunar Park", by Bret Easton Ellis.

Answer 5

I just read a book titled, "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept" by Elizabeth Smart. Elizabeth Smart was a journalist in the 1940's who fell in love with the poet George Barker. The two had an affair even though Barker was married. The book is Smart's recounting her feelings, both good and bad, surrounding the affair.

It's really not a bad book. It's written in a poetic prose style and that's what this book is most famous for- it's style.

-BD

Answer 6

Envy by Sandra Brown - it is great - about an author writing a book inside the book that you are reading. It is good. Nora Roberts Loving Jack is about an author writing a book.

Answer 7

Cry to heaven by Anne Rice....Spartacus by Howard Fast(outlawed during the Mccarthy era).....The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, who also wrote the Three Musketeers & The man in the iron mask.....The Thornbirds by Colleen McCullough...brilliant book.....The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (An amazing classic) & The Good Earth by Pearl Buck, lastly A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by betty Smith.
There, many classics and page turners for you!!! I have read all of these and in some cases multiple times!!! I really hope that this helps you!!! Spartacus will blow your mind. It had to be released in England as the McCarthy era had Howard fast black balled when it was written.
I hope that you read Cry to heaven by Anne Rice...it is NOT about vampires, but about the Italian Castrati, thus it is truth intermixed with fiction, rather historical fiction....
Happy reading!!!!! I gave y usome of my top faves here!!
Thanks,
Lioncourt

Answer 8

Have you ever read any of Clive Cussler's 'Dirk Pitt' series of books? If you read them you will see that in the later books he puts himself into the book story and makes it somewhat believable, although the heroes are a little slow on the uptake in later books.

Answer 9

Start with "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde. It's the beginning of a brilliant series.

Answer 10

"Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke is a good one. I haven't read the second, "Inkspell" yet, so I can't say for sure about that one.

"Emily of New Moon" and the sequels, "Emily Climbs" and "Emily's Quest" are about a girl who wants to be a writer and what she does as she's growing up to accomplish that goal. They're by L. M. Montgomery.