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Biography & Memoir139
Literary & Classics139
Literature139
Non-Fiction134
Biography122
History, Politics & Society70
History67
Memoir60
Classics35

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Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality22

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The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig
4.51 average rating, · 31.6k ratings
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A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
4.02 average rating, · 171.2k ratings
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Letter to His Father
Franz Kafka
4.03 average rating, · 68k ratings
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El olvido que seremos
Héctor Abad Faciolince
4.39 average rating, · 23.9k ratings
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Min kamp 2
Karl Ove Knausgård
4.33 average rating, · 24.9k ratings
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Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas
Stefan Zweig
4.24 average rating, · 18.6k ratings
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The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
4.05 average rating, · 24.1k ratings
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Limonov
Emmanuel Carrère
4.11 average rating, · 17k ratings
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
Humphrey Carpenter
4.06 average rating, · 16.8k ratings
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Wolf
Lara Taveirne
4.35 average rating, · 10.1k ratings
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Living to Tell the Tale
Gabriel García Márquez
4.03 average rating, · 13k ratings
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Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson
Paul Perry
4.32 average rating, · 9.4k ratings
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My Childhood
Maxim Gorky
4.09 average rating, · 9.3k ratings
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Monique s'évade
Édouard Louis
4.14 average rating, · 7.9k ratings
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Scholastic Inc.
4.20 average rating, · 7.9k ratings
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In the Presence of Absence
Mahmoud Darwish
4.37 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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La loca de la casa
Rosa Montero
4.02 average rating, · 5.6k ratings
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Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann
4.01 average rating, · 5.2k ratings
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Essays of E.B. White
E.B. White
4.31 average rating, · 4.2k ratings
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On Writing
Ernest Hemingway
4.02 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee
4.01 average rating, · 5k ratings
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Diaries, 1910-1923
Franz Kafka
4.22 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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Kafka
David Zane Mairowitz
4.05 average rating, · 4.2k ratings
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Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Anne Carson
4.26 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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