The Bookshop: A History of the American BookstoreNew · Nonfiction, History, Books About Books
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
2024 · 403 pages · Nonfiction
40
New
★ 3.90 on Goodreads · 13K ratings
≈ 10 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Goodreads Choice (history biography) winner (2024). 3.90★ from 13K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
40Must-Read Score
- Critics39 out of 100 · counts 35%+15
- Readers28 out of 100 · counts 50%+16
- Buzz51 out of 100 · counts 15%+9
Where it ranks
- #172 of the 220 history books we rank
- #393 of the 730 new books we rank
- #870 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Goodreads Choice (history biography) winner (2024)
Reads as
True story
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