Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
I really like this week’s topic because it’s almost like looking in a mirror reading a book about bookish characters. Whether the protagonist is an avid reader, librarian, book seller or writer, there’s just something so relatable about it because it’s most likely what we are doing as well.
But as I was trying to come up with a list of books with bookish characters, I realized I don’t read many books that actually have such individuals in them. So I’m excited to read all of your other lists this week! But in the meantime, here are the few I could come up with, grouped by bookish character type.
Booksellers
- Last Chance Books by Kelsey Rodkey
- Recommended for You by Laura Silverman
- Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
Librarians
- The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
Readers
- Being Mary Bennet by JC Peterson
- Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch
- Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston
- Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Writers
- Sense and Second-Degree Murder by Tirzah Price
- The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka
Let me know if any of these books are on your radar! I’ve read half of these and the rest are on my TBR, but I’m intrigued by it all.
Until next week!
Down the Rabbit Hole 
I totally misread the prompt. You did it right, I didn’t but I did make a fun-to-explore list. Check it out at Characters in Real Life
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These all look like great reads – wonder whether you’ve read The Bookish Life of Nina Hill ..
These are my favourite bookish characters.
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Oh no I haven’t! I will definitely need to look into it. I’ve been seeing that book on some lists this week 😊
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Great list! I think you did a fantastic job with this week’s prompt and want to read most of these books. Book Lovers is on my TBR already 🙂
Here is my TTT: https://herseriallife.com/top-10-favorite-bookish-characters/
Have a good week 😉
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I haven’t read Book Lovers yet but I’m hoping we’ll both enjoy it!
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I’m so curious about The Paris Library.
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-characters/
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Some great looking books there. I don’t read books with many bookish characters either but I did manage to scrape a list together 😂
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
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You had a great list too! I completely forgot about Love Your Life
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Thank you. I had to search through my books!
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Great list! I had Words in Deep Blue on my list too. I love that book so much 😍 I can’t wait to read Book Lovers and Bookish and the Beast!
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Let me know what you think on those two books! I haven’t picked up either just yet but trying to move them higher on the TBR
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Words in Deep Blue is a great choice. I loved that book.
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I’ve not read any of these but the titles are so interesting
My TTT
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I loved the way you went about the topic this week!
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all such cute reads
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Thanks Erin 😊
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love bookish characters, its always interesting to read about them in book form! 😍📚 Its funny because I’m sure I’ve encountered lots of bookish characters in what I’ve read but I never remember them off the top of my head 😅
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I know right?? I should probably pay more attention from now on 😝
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Bookish and the Beast is on my list too! Its also the only book on your list that I have read haha. But Book Lovers is on my TBR!
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I hope you liked it! I need to get to the ones I haven’t read yet soon
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The Paris Library is on my TBR, I’m really looking forward to reading it.
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2022/05/10/top-ten-tuesday-367/
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I hope you enjoy! I liked the concept of the story a lot, and definitely favoured the past POV during the war
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I hope so too! I always find that with historical dual POV books with a “past” timeline and a “present” timeline, the past is nearly always more interesting!
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I feel that too! I think the one exception for me was The Rose Code where both present and past timelines were super exciting
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See even in that one, I liked the past timeline better, though once the two kind of met and more exciting things were happening in the present timeline than just Mab and Osla griping at each other, I enjoyed it a lot more.
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Oh, I like how you broke them down by type! We share a few on our lists. I’m hoping to start Book Lovers today!
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Thanks! I was mostly thinking of them by type since I could barely remember enough titles to fit the topic
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