Alberto Manguel, anyone?

I'm doing an MA thesis on the phenomenology of reading and writing fanfiction (focusing for the moment around questions of legitimacy, to be narrowed down to fit the scanty word limit, naturally and unfortunately x_x). My advisor recommended Alberto Manguel's work on reading and the culture of reading, but having amazon!perused his output, I'm not sure whether

a) A History of Reading,
b) A Reader on Reading,
c) The City of Words, or
d) potentially something I don't know yet

would be most appropriate, and I can't really get at them all in order to browse and decide before ordering one (thanks, somewhat meager uni!library). I've not encountered Manguel before. Just wondering if anyone who's read him has any thoughts?

As a side note, I feel Judith Butler should come into a discussion of gender performativity on the internet and fic-writing, ESPECIALLY as so much of said writing is about sex/queer themes/relationships, but I'm not sure exactly what Butler. Other feminist perspectives on writing might slot in well here (I'm already up to my elbows in Gilbert and Gubar), as would other work on erotica. If you happened to have recommendations and/or names, O gentle readers, I would appreciate them. :)

Thanks for any insight!