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"The Book of Books is a mirror for the soul and a map for life meeting our deepest hungers for truth, love, justice and forgiveness. As you read it, you will find it reading you. I encourage you to let it fill your soul."

In the center of the history floor is a glass case emblazoned with the words “Book of Books.”

Bob, rather, refers to her “Book Of Books”: a record of every book she’s read for the past 28 years.

Bob is not a person, but a battered and beloved object: the Book of Books, a journal in which Paul has kept track, in tidy longhand, of every book she’s read since her junior year of high school.

While Charles Darwin’s book of books, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,” was still in print in 1859, Huxley, a lecturer in paleontology and natural history in London, wrote a favorable review and became a convert to Darwin’s theory.