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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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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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In the Presence of Absence
Mahmoud Darwish
4.37 average rating, · 4.5k 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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Diaries, 1910-1923
Franz Kafka
4.22 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Anne Carson
4.26 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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Dit is niet wat er zal gebeuren
Zita Theunynck
4.47 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Aku: Berdasarkan Perjalanan Hidup Dan Karya Penyair Chairil Anwar
Sjuman Djaya
4.17 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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Letters Home
Sylvia Plath
4.23 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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De eeuw van mijn vader
Geert Mak
4.17 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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De Profundis and Other Writings
Oscar Wilde
4.22 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Der alte König in seinem Exil
Arno Geiger
4.13 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
Joyce Johnson
4.08 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Peri Gazozu
Ercan Kesal
4.17 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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The Gifts of Reading
Robert Macfarlane
4.12 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
Phillip Lopate
4.20 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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