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| Foreword | ||
| Introduction: A Passion for Books | ||
| In a Second-Hand Bookshop | 3 | |
| Unpacking My Library | 4 | |
| The Ritual | 13 | |
| How to Get Started in the Book Business | 19 | |
| "Look Who's Been Remaindered Now" | 26 | |
| Ten Best-Selling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty or More Times | 27 | |
| Lending Books | 28 | |
| On the Return of a Book Lent to a Friend | 32 | |
| Welcome Home Borrowed Book | 33 | |
| How to Justify a Private Library | 34 | |
| How to Organize a Public Library | 37 | |
| Samuel Pepys's Library | 40 | |
| Pillow Books | 43 | |
| The New Lifetime Reading Plan | 49 | |
| Comfort Found in Good Old Books | 55 | |
| The Collector | 62 | |
| Bibliomania | 64 | |
| "All the Friedrich Nietzsche You'll Ever Need" | 77 | |
| Bibliomania | 78 | |
| The Book Action | 80 | |
| From Areopagitica | 88 | |
| Books Unread | 89 | |
| Ten Books That Shaped the American Character | 94 | |
| Books That Changed America | 96 | |
| The Commerce of Reading | 98 | |
| Book Collecting | 102 | |
| "Holy Cow!" | 110 | |
| Bibliomaniacs | 111 | |
| They Don't Call It a Mania for Nothing | 122 | |
| Bibliolexicon | 134 | |
| What Is the Matter with the Bookshop? | 135 | |
| "Non-Books" | 147 | |
| Ten Memorable Books That Never Existed | 148 | |
| The Last of His Race | 150 | |
| The Perfect Book | 163 | |
| Books Are the Windows of the Soul | 164 | |
| How Reading Changed My Life | 165 | |
| Three by Quindlen | 173 | |
| Talking of Old Books | 175 | |
| Potch | 196 | |
| "Damn It! Wait Your Turn!" | 205 | |
| A Good Time to Start a Book Club | 206 | |
| Invasion of the Book Envelopes | 217 | |
| "And to Some People We Might Not Sell It at Any Price" | 220 | |
| My Friends | 221 | |
| Norman Mailer's Ten Favorite American Novels | 222 | |
| W. Somerset Maugham's Ten Greatest Novels | 223 | |
| The Bible Through the Ages | 224 | |
| Aldus Manutius | 240 | |
| Benjamin Franklin's Epitaph | 256 | |
| The Collector | 257 | |
| The Newark Public Library | 278 | |
| Why Does Nobody Collect Me? | 281 | |
| How Not to Care for Books | 286 | |
| On Reading and Collecting | 297 | |
| How to Care for Books | 313 | |
| Fifteen Books We Would Memorize If We Were the "Living Books" Characters in Ray Bradbury's Novel Fahrenheit 451 | 321 | |
| "I Just Like to Be in Their Presence Occasionally" | 323 | |
| The "100" Game: 100 Greatest Novels in the English Language | 325 | |
| The "100" Game: Top 100 English-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century | 334 | |
| 91 Chambers Street | 337 | |
| Bibliobibliography - Books About Books: A Selection | 343 | |
| Permission Acknowledgments | 351 |
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