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Biography38
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Min kamp 2
Karl Ove Knausgård
4.33 average rating, · 24.9k ratings
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
Humphrey Carpenter
4.06 average rating, · 16.8k 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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Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann
4.01 average rating, · 5.2k ratings
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Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee
4.01 average rating, · 5k ratings
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Albert Einstein: A Biography
Albrecht Fölsing
4.40 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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Letters Home
Sylvia Plath
4.23 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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James Joyce
Richard Ellmann
4.34 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Henry Miller
4.02 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
Joyce Johnson
4.08 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Philip Zaleski
4.09 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Érasme
Stefan Zweig
4.02 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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Thomas Hardy
Claire Tomalin
4.09 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
Gerald Martin
4.20 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Diana Pavlac Glyer
4.28 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
Benjamin Moser
4.28 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Conversations with David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
4.17 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation
Daisy Hay
4.10 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Gathering Evidence
Thomas Bernhard
4.54 average rating, · 1k ratings
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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
Maya Jasanoff
4.09 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Rimbaud: A Biography
Graham Robb
4.25 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career
George Plimpton
4.09 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Burning the Days: Recollection
James Salter
4.03 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Conversations with Kafka
Gustav Janouch
4.05 average rating, · 1k ratings
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