bibliomania

Journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett uncovers a subculture of literary fanatics when she follows Ken Saunders, an amateur detective and collector of rare books, while he pursues Gilkey, a book-loving thief.

Alexander Short, a reference librarian with a rocky marriage to a French pop-up book author, is hired by bibliophile Henry James Jesson III to do after-hours research on the life of a mysterious eighteenth-century inventor who left a cabinet full of wonders that chronicle his life, with one maddeningly empty shelf.