We love celebrating all things “book,” so we couldn’t pass on creating a collection to help you celebrate World Book Day. What would be better than providing online access to some of the 100 best sellers of all time (as calculated by The Guardian)?
Well… it turns out that academic libraries don’t really collect (even as ebooks) the top 100 best sellers. Instead, we collect scholarship about the best sellers. So, here for your reading pleasure are some books about books to give you a new perspective on the bestseller list.
Please note: if you select a book that is a collection of essays about more than one book, you can find the essay you want by using the ebook platform’s search options to search for the author’s name.
The books can be used by any member of the University, just click the cover below and use your Raven ID to login. Or access them from iDiscover, just like your reading list texts, if you prefer to go that way.
![Like One of the Family: Domestic Workers, Race, and In/visibility in The Help edited by Fiona Mills](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-Help_Like-one-of-the-family-domestic-workers-race-and-in-visibility-in-The-help-edited-by-Fiona-Mills-731x1024.jpg)
![Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: New Essays edited by Michael J. Meyer](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/To-Kill-a-Mockingbird_Harper-Lees-To-kill-a-mockingbird-new-essays-edited-by-Michael-J.-Meyer-622x1024.jpg)
![Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twilight: Studies in Fiction, Media, and a Contemporary Cultural Experience edited by Mariah Larsson & Ann Steiner](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Twilight_Interdisciplinary-approaches-to-Twilight-studies-in-fiction-media-and-a-contemporary-cultural-experience-edited-by-Mariah-Larsson-Ann-Steiner.jpg)
![Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith's novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality by Sylvia Hadjetian](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/White-Teeth_Multiculturalism-and-magic-realism-in-Zadie-Smiths-novel-White-teeth-between-fiction-and-reality-by-Sylvia-Hadjetian-722x1024.jpg)
![Splattered Ink: Postfeminist Gothic Fiction and Gendered Violence by Sarah E. Whitney](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-Lovely-Bones_Splattered-Ink-Postfeminist-Gothic-Fiction-and-Gendered-Violence-by-Sarah-E-Whitney-701x1024.jpg)
![Contemporary Spanish Gothic by Ann Davies](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-Shadow-of-the-Wind_Contemporary-Spanish-gothic-by-Ann-Davies.jpg)
![The Politics of The Hunger Games by Jamey Heit](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-Hunger-Games_The-Politics-of-The-Hunger-Games-by-Jamey-Heit-683x1024.jpg)
![Islamophobia and the Novel by Peter Morey](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-Kite-Runner_Islamophobia-and-the-Novel-by-Peter-Morey-683x1024.jpg)
![Dawkins' God: from The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion by Alister E. McGrath](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-God-Delusion_Dawkins-God-from-the-Selfish-Gene-to-the-God-Delusion-by-Alister-E.-McGrath-683x1024.jpg)
![Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: a Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-Da-Vinci-Code_Truth-and-fiction-in-The-Da-Vinci-code-a-historian-reveals-what-we-really-know-about-Jesus-Mary-Magdalene-and-Constantine-673x1024.jpg)
![The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy: Everything Is Fire edited by Eric Bronson](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-Girl-with-the-Dragon-Tattoo_The-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-and-philosophy-everything-is-fire-edited-by-Eric-Bronson-681x1024.jpg)
![The International Relations of Middle-Earth: Learning from The Lord of the Rings by Abigail E. Ruane and Patrick James](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-Lord-of-the-Rings_The-international-relations-of-Middle-Earth-learning-from-The-lord-of-the-rings-by-Abigail-E.-Ruane-and-Patrick-James-683x1024.jpg)
![Imagining Autism: Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum by Sonya Freeman Loftis](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-Curious-Incident-of-a-dog-in-the-night-time_Imagining-Autism-Fiction-and-Stereotypes-on-the-Spectrum-by-Sonya-Freeman-Loftis-644x1024.jpg)
![Narrative Projections of a Black British History by Eva Ulrike Pirker](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Small-Island_Narrative-projections-of-a-black-British-history-by-Eva-Ulrike-Pirker-626x1024.jpg)
![States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald by Arne De Boever](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Life-of-Pi_States-of-exception-in-the-contemporary-novel-Martel-Eugenides-Coetzee-Sebald-by-Arne-De-Boever-622x1024.jpg)
![Navigating the Kingdom of Night by Amy T. Matthews](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-Boy-in-the-Striped-Pyjamas_Navigating-the-kingdom-of-night-by-Amy-T.-Matthews.jpg)
![Facing the East in the West: Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture edited by Barbara Korte, Eva Ulrike Pirker and Sissy Helff](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/A-short-history_Facing-the-East-in-the-West-images-of-Eastern-Europe-in-British-literature-film-and-culture-edited-by-Barbara-Korte-Eva-Ulrike-Pirker-and-Sissy-Helff-672x1024.jpg)
![Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature by Dave Gunning](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Brick-Road_Race-and-antiracism-in-black-British-and-British-Asian-literature-by-Dave-Gunning-703x1024.jpg)
![Scholarly Studies in Harry Potter: Applying Academic Methods to a Popular Text by Cynthia Whitney Hallett](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Harry-Potter_Scholarly-Studies-in-Harry-Potter-Applying-Academic-Methods-to-a-Popular-Text-by-Cynthia-Whitney-Hallett-664x1024.jpg)
![Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong: a Reader's Guide by Pat Wheeler](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Birdsong_Sebastian-Faulkss-Birdsong-a-readers-guide-by-Pat-Wheeler-663x1024.jpg)
![Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays edited by Jo Gill](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Bridget-Jones_Modern-confessional-writing-new-critical-essays-edited-by-Jo-Gill.jpg)
![Empire's Wake: Postcolonial Irish Writing and the Politics of Modern Literary Form by Mark Quigley](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Angelas-Ashes_Empires-Wake-Postcolonial-Irish-Writing-and-the-Politics-of-Modern-Literary-Form-by-Mark-Quigley-661x1024.jpg)
![Rewriting the Hero and the Quest: Myth and Monomyth in Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières by Tatiana Golban](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Captain-Corelli_Rewriting-the-hero-and-the-quest-myth-and-monomyth-in-Captain-Corellis-Mandolin-by-Louis-de-Bernières-by-Tatiana-Golban-722x1024.jpg)
![Lad Trouble: Masculinity and Identity in the British Male Confessional Novel of the 1990s by Andrea Ochsner](https://infolib.blog.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/About-a-boy_Lad-Trouble-Masculinity-and-Identity-in-the-British-Male-Confessional-Novel-of-the-1990s-by-Andrea-Ochsner-614x1024.jpg)