Love lists? You’ll love these books that celebrate them

Schott’s Original Miscellany: In the 1990s, British photographer Ben Schott’s Christmas cards usually featured graphics about his professional accomplishments. The card-booklet eventually became a limited-run book, which became a collectible, which got a larger print run, became a bestseller and is now a trilogy that’s sold 2 million copies. You can via GIPHY The Infinity of Lists: Philosopher Umberto Eco’s book-length illustrated 2009 essay looks at how Western culture — art, music, literature, ideas — stands upon a network of descriptive and prescriptive lists. List Cultures: A slightly more academic read from Canadian communications scholar William Young, this 2017 book considers the documenting of facts, instructions, hierarchies and ideas from Mesopotamia and 15th century Italian bookkeeping all the way down to listicles.