BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY + Literary
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY + Literary
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY + Literary
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- The novel of the century, the extraordinary adventure of Les Misérables, David Bellos
- When in French, love in a second language, Lauren Collins
- I'm supposed to protect you from all this, a memoir, Nadja Spiegelman
- Liar, a memoir, Rob Roberge
- In the mountains of madness, the life, death, and extraordinary afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft, W. Scott Poole
- The world broke in two, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the year that changed literature, Bill Goldstein
- Ants among elephants, an untouchable family and the making of modern India, Sujatha Gidla
- At the existentialist café, freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others, Sarah Bakewell
- Young Eliot, from St. Louis to The Waste Land, Robert Crawford
- The feud, Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the end of a beautiful friendship, Alex Beam
- Hourglass, time, memory, marriage, Dani Shapiro
- Not just Jane, rediscovering seven amazing women writers who transformed British literature, Shelley DeWees
- Charlotte Brontë, a fiery heart, Claire Harman
- There's a mystery there, the primal vision of Maurice Sendak, Jonathan Cott
- Spring, Karl Ove Knausgaard ; with illustrations by Anna Bjerger ; translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey
- Bukowski in a sundress, confessions from a writing life, Kim Addonizio
- Never look an American in the eye, a memoir of flying turtles, colonial ghosts, and the making of a Nigerian American, Okey Ndibe
- Churchill and Orwell, the fight for freedom, Thomas E. Ricks
- The whole harmonium, the life of Wallace Stevens, Paul Mariani
- Furious hours, murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee, Casey Cep
- Catullus' bedspread, the life of Rome's most erotic poet, Daisy Dunn
- Chester B. Himes, a biography, Lawrence P. Jackson
- Ostend, Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the summer before the dark, Volker Weidermann ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway
- I don't have a happy place, cheerful stories of despondency and gloom, Kim Korson
- Where the Jews aren't, the sad and absurd story of Birobidzhan, Russia's autonomous region, Masha Gessen
- Treyf, my life as an unorthodox outlaw, Elissa Altman
- After visiting friends, a son's story, Michael Hainey
- The real Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie and the boy who inspired him, Piers Dudgeon
- Chasing the last laugh, Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour, Richard Zacks
- Air traffic, a memoir of ambition and manhood in America, Gregory Pardlo