Get our Best Book Club Books of 2025 eBook!

What readers think of The Personal Librarian, plus links to write your own review.

Summary |  Excerpt |  Reading Guide |  Reviews |  Beyond the book |  Read-Alikes |  Genres & Themes |  Author Bio

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

The Personal Librarian

by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
  • BookBrowse Review:
  • Critics' Consensus (7):
  • Readers' Rating (89):
  • First Published:
  • Jun 29, 2021, 352 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Jun 2022, 352 pages
  • Rate this book

About This Book

Reviews

Page 12 of 12
There are currently 89 reader reviews for The Personal Librarian
Order Reviews by:

Write your own review!

BGReader

Personal Librarian
Tired subject matter. Trite, The writing is good nothing exceptional. I wanted to like it, but found myself critiquing as I read.

Beyond the Book:
  Belle da Costa Greene

BookBrowse Book Club

  • Book Jacket
    Real Americans
    by Rachel Khong
    From the author of Goodbye, Vitamin, a novel exploring family, identity, and the shaping of destiny.

Members Recommend

  • Book Jacket

    One Death at a Time
    by Abbi Waxman

    A cranky ex-actress and her Gen Z sobriety sponsor team up to solve a murder that could send her back to prison in this dazzling mystery.

  • Book Jacket

    The Seven O'Clock Club
    by Amelia Ireland

    Four strangers join an experimental treatment to heal broken hearts in Amelia Ireland's heartfelt debut novel.

  • Book Jacket

    Happy Land
    by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

    From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel about a family's secret ties to a vanished American Kingdom.

  • Book Jacket

    The Fairbanks Four
    by Brian Patrick O’Donoghue

    One murder, four guilty convictions, and a community determined to find justice.

Who Said...

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time

Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!

Wordplay

Solve this clue:

A C on H S

and be entered to win..

Your guide toexceptional          books

BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.