Libraries and Librarians in Fiction

 

Listed below are selected novels which fall into this category. This list is not comprehensive; rather, it is a list of some of the more popular titles within this category.

 

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Author

Title

Peter Ackroyd

Chatterton

Evelyn Berckman

The Fourth Man on the Rope

Doris Betts

Heading West

Lawrence Block

The Burglar in the Library

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

Anita Brookner

Lewis Percy
Look at Me

Kathleen Cambor

In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden

Orson Scott Card

Wyrms

Agatha Christie

The Body in the Library

Martha Cooley

The Archivist

G. K. Chesterton

The Return of Don Quixote

Clive Cussler

Valhalla Rising

Jo Dereske

Miss Zukas Shelves the Evidence

Jean DeWeese

The Doll with Opal Eyes

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

Joanne Dobson

The Maltese Manuscript

Kirk Douglas

Last Tango in Brooklyn

Nell Dunn

Tear His Head off His Shoulders

Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose

Michael Ende

The Neverending Story

Timothy Findley

Headhunter

David E. Fisher

Katie’s Terror

Anatole France

Revolt of the Angels

George Garrett

The King of Babylon Shall not Come Against You

Jill Giencke

Fatal Facts

Diane Giguere

Wings in the Wind

Molly Giles

Iron Shoes

Bartholomew Gill

The Death of an Ardent Bibliophile: A Peter McGarr Mystery

Lisa Goldstein

Summer King, Winter Fool

Charles A. Goodrum

The Best Cellar
Dewey Decimated

Paula Gosling

Hoodwink

Emily Grayson

The Observatory

Charlaine Harris

Real Murders

Judith Hawkes

Julian’s House

Ursula Hegi

Stones From the River

Marcy Heidish

The Torching

Robert Hellenga

The Sixteen Pleasures

John Hersey

The Child Buyer: A novel in the form of Hearing….

James Hilton

Random Harvest
So Well Remembered

Hollis Hodges

Norman Rockwell’s Greatest Painting

Linda Howard

Open Season

Stephen King

Insomnia
It

Joe Klein

Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics

Agota Kristof

The Proof

Allen Kurzweil

The Grand Complication

Jane Langton

Dead As A Dodo: A Homer Kelly Mystery
Good And Dead: A Homer Kelly Mystery

Anne LeClaire

Sideshow

Ursula K. Le Guin

Always Coming Home

Elizabeth Lemarchand

Step in the Dark

Roy Harley Lewis

The Manuscript Murders
Where Agents Fear to Tread

Sinclair Lewis

Main Street

Penelope Lively

Passing On

David Lodge

Small World: An Academic Romance

Jack London

The Valley of the Moon

Elizabeth McCracken

The Giant’s House

Colleen McCullough

The Ladies of Missalonghi

James McGovern

No Ruined Castles

Bernard MacLaverty

Cal

Charlotte MacLeod

Rest You Merry

Sean McMullen

Souls in the Great Machine

Leslie Meier

Valentine Murder

D. R. Meredith

By Hook or By Book
Murder Past Due

Barbara Michaels

Shattered Silk

Miriam Grace Monfredo

North Star Conspiracy
Seneca Falls Inheritance : A Glynis Tryon Historical Mystery

Julian Moynahan

Pairing Off

Haruki Murakami, and Alfred Birnbaum, Translator

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel

V. S. Naipaul

Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion

Geoff Nicholson

Hunters and Gatherers

George Orwell

1984

Georges Parec

Life: A User’s Manual

Richard Peck

The Last Safe Place on Earth

Arturo Perez-Reverte

The Club Dumas

Elizabeth Peters

Die for Love
Naked Once More
The Murders of Richard III
The Seventh Sinner

Stella Phillips

Hidden Wrath

Belva Plain

Fortune’s Hand

Richard Powers

The Gold Bug Variations

Caroline Preston

Lucy Crocker 2.0

Barbara Pym

An Academic Question

Gillian Roberts

Adam and Evil

William Saroyan

The Human Comedy

Corrine H. Sawyer

The J. Alfred Prufrock Murders

Dorothy L. Sayers

Gaudy Night

Carol Shields

Swann

Edith Skom

The Mark Twain Murders

Jane Smiley

Duplicate Keys

Julian Symons

Colour of Murder

Josephine Tey

The Daughter of Time

Margaret Truman

Murder at the Library of Congress

Johnathan Valin

Final Notice

Judith Van Gieson

The Stolen Blue

Vernor A. Vinge

Fire Upon the Deep

Irving Wallace

The Seven Minutes

Elie Wiesel

The Fifth Son

Garry Wills

At Button’s

Donald Westlake

The Hook

Edith Wharton

Summer

Meredith Willison

The Music Man: A Novel

P. G. Wodehouse

Leave it to Psmith

 

 

 

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