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The Girl Who Was on Fire
Leah Wilson
4.29 average rating, · 12.1k ratings
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The Lord Of The Rings: A Reader's Companion
Wayne G. Hammond
4.39 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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The Stephen King Companion
George Beahm
4.05 average rating, · 5.2k ratings
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Sandra M. Gilbert
4.21 average rating, · 4.2k ratings
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Harry Potter and History
Nancy R. Reagin
4.35 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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An Experiment in Criticism
C.S. Lewis
4.20 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Umberto Eco
4.16 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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Lectures on Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
4.32 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
Corey Olsen
4.23 average rating, · 2.8k 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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Snape: A Definitive Reading
Lorrie Kim
4.12 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Dæmon Voices
Philip Pullman
4.12 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.28 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.28 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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The Magical Worlds of Lord of the Rings: The Amazing Myths, Legends and Facts Behind the Masterpiece
David Colbert
4.06 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
Jane Alison
4.09 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Winter Is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones
Carolyne Larrington
4.49 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books behind the Hogwarts Adventures
John Granger
4.29 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf
4.11 average rating, · 2k ratings
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How Should One Read a Book?
Virginia Woolf
4.03 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
James Shapiro
4.04 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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A Horse at Night: On Writing
Amina Cain
4.00 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Martin Amis
4.09 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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