This was one of my favorite books I read this year. I heard about this on the What Should I Read Next? podcast and immediately bought it for myself for my birthday. I knew it was going to be a hit because I am always, always interested in books about books and libraries. Orlean covers such a wide scope in this book--the book is mainly about the LA Library fire in 1986, but she dives deep into the history of libraries in general, the history of library fires, the history of the LA Library in specific, the biography of Harry Peak (the suspected arsonist of the LA Library), and what the LA Library is like now. It was amazing and was some of the best non-fiction I've read in a long time.
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