1. Romney, J.P. Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History. New York: Harper Perennial, 2018.

2. Price, Leah. What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading (Basic Books, 2019)

3. Bartlett, Allison Hoover. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession. (Riverhead Books, 2010)

4. Duncan, Dennis. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age. (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022)

5. Frances, Sherrin. Libraries Amid Protests: Books, Organizing, and Global Activism. (University of Massachusetts, 2020)

6. Garrison, Dee: Apostles of Culture: Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920. (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, originally published 1979)

7. Galbraith, Steven K., A Brief History of the Book: From Tablet to Tablet (Libraries Unlimited, 2020)

8. Resnais, Alain. Toute la mémoire du monde. 1956 (This is a 20 min film, we would watch together and discuss.)

9. Ovenden, Richard, Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge (Harvard, 2020)

10. Ryholt, Kim and Gojko Barjamovic. Libraries Before Alexandria : Ancient near Eastern Traditions. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

11. Wiegand, Wayne. American Public School Librarianship: A History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021)