Lit TV Resources

Books and Their Destruction

A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq by Fernando Báez

“Book-Burning and the Uses of Writing in Ancient Rome: Destructive Practice between Literature and Document” by Joseph A. Howley

Books Condemned to Be Burnt by James Anson Farrer

Burning Books by Haig A. Bosmajian

Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction by Rebecca Knuth

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

On the Burning of Books by Kenneth Baker

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

San Francisco Fire

Guardians of the City: Historical Photos of San Francisco Fire, San Francisco Fire Department

Early History of the San Francisco Fire Department, The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco

San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires by Dennis Smith

The Great San Francisco Fire of 1906, Shaping San Francisco’s Found SF

When San Francisco Burned: A Photographic Memoir of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 by Doug Gist