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The Stephen King Companion
George Beahm
4.05 average rating, · 5.2k ratings
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
James Shapiro
4.08 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Katherine Rundell
4.15 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Janet Malcolm
4.05 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
Maureen Corrigan
4.05 average rating, · 3.2k ratings
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Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife
Francine Prose
4.15 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
James Shapiro
4.07 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
Geoff Dyer
4.03 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Stephen King: The Art of Darkness
Douglas E. Winter
4.16 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
James Shapiro
4.04 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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Üç Büyük Usta: Balzac - Dickens - Dostoyevski
Stefan Zweig
4.11 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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My Emily Dickinson
Susan Howe
4.23 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
Dorian Lynskey
4.12 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick
Lawrence Sutin
4.11 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
Kevin Birmingham
4.33 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Nikolai Gogol
Vladimir Nabokov
4.15 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
Alec Nevala-Lee
4.19 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C. S. Lewis
Devin Brown
4.14 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Quack This Way
David Foster Wallace
4.21 average rating, · 983 ratings
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A Place in the Country
W.G. Sebald
4.09 average rating, · 848 ratings
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Charles Bukowski
Barry Miles
4.04 average rating, · 739 ratings
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The World of J.R.R. Tolkien
Dimitra Fimi
4.12 average rating, · 693 ratings
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A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning
Robert Zaretsky
4.00 average rating, · 660 ratings
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J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth
Bradley J. Birzer
4.19 average rating, · 620 ratings
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