After The Bookshop
Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers by Emma Smith
If you loved The Bookshop's scruffy booksellers defying corporate sterility, Emma Smith's Portable Magic expands that rebellion across history—books as smuggled contraband, margin-scribbling eccentrics, and community touchstones that sparked revolutions. This is reading as an unruly human enterprise, messy and magnificent, with scholarship that gossips like your favorite radical proprietor.