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A Dream Called Home A Dream Called Home Reyna Grande
Mother Winter Mother Winter Sophia Shalmiyev
The Bughouse The Bughouse Daniel Swift
One Writer's Beginnings One Writer's Beginnings Eudora Welty
The Last Love Song The Last Love Song Tracy Daugherty
The Copenhagen Trilogy The Copenhagen Trilogy Tove Ditlevsen
In the Land of Men In the Land of Men Adrienne Miller
In the Great Green Room In the Great Green Room Amy Gary
Not Just Jane Not Just Jane Shelley DeWees
Between Them Between Them Richard Ford
Out of Sheer Rage Out of Sheer Rage Geoff Dyer
Sharp Sharp Michelle Dean
Poets in Their Youth Poets in Their Youth Eileen Simpson
Places of Mind Places of Mind Timothy Brennan
The Real Lolita The Real Lolita Sarah Weinman
Welcome Home Welcome Home Lucia Berlin
Sontag Sontag Benjamin Moser
Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh Philip Eade
The Age of Disenchantments The Age of Disenchantments Aaron Shulman
My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You Aleksandar Hemon
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Prairie Fires Prairie Fires Caroline Fraser
My Father's Fortune My Father's Fortune Michael Frayn
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies John Carey
The Memory Palace The Memory Palace Mira Bartok
De Kooning's Bicycle De Kooning's Bicycle Robert Long
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare James Shapiro
Angela's Ashes Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt
Sontag Sontag Benjamin Moser
James Tiptree, Jr. James Tiptree, Jr. Julie Phillips
This Boy's Life This Boy's Life Tobias Wolff
The Nightmare of Reason The Nightmare of Reason Ernst Pawel
Best sellers
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night The Reason for the Darkness of the Night John Tresch
Becoming Superman Becoming Superman J. Michael Straczynski
Neruda Neruda Mark Eisner
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy Nicholas Reynolds
Primo Levi's Resistance Primo Levi's Resistance Sergio Luzzatto
Not So Good a Gay Man Not So Good a Gay Man Frank M. Robinson
Avid Reader Avid Reader Robert Gottlieb
Not Just Jane Not Just Jane Shelley DeWees
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare James Shapiro
Maybe Esther Maybe Esther Katja Petrowskaja
Tell Me a Story Tell Me a Story Cassandra King Conroy
John le Carre John le Carre Adam Sisman
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Simone de Beauvoir
Krazy Krazy Michael Tisserand
The Education of Kevin Powell The Education of Kevin Powell Kevin Powell
The Source of All Things The Source of All Things Tracy Ross
My Ear at His Heart: Reading My Father My Ear at His Heart: Reading My Father Hanif Kureishi
A Childhood In Scotland A Childhood In Scotland Christian Miller
A Second Wind A Second Wind Philippe Pozzo Di Borgo
Stephenie Meyer Stephenie Meyer Marc Shapiro
New releases
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The Complete Memoirs The Complete Memoirs Pablo Neruda
Tiff Tiff Sherrill Grace
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night The Reason for the Darkness of the Night John Tresch
The Real George Eliott The Real George Eliott Lisa Tippings
Shakespeare's Gardens Shakespeare's Gardens Jackie Bennett
Tolstoy As Man and Artist with an Essay on Dostoyevsky Tolstoy As Man and Artist with an Essay on Dostoyevsky Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Wife | Daughter | Self Wife | Daughter | Self Beth Kephart
Memoirs of Casanova Volume VIII Memoirs of Casanova Volume VIII Giacomo Casanova
The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland Angela Youngman
Paul Verlaine Paul Verlaine Stefan Zweig
The Mirror of the Sea The Mirror of the Sea Joseph Conrad
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu Jo Willett
Philip Roth Philip Roth Blake Bailey
Biography of an American Bondman by His Daughter Biography of an American Bondman by His Daughter Josephine Brown
Narrative of William W. Brown Narrative of William W. Brown William Wells Brown
Autobiography of Mark Twain Autobiography of Mark Twain Mark Twain
Homage to Catalonia Homage to Catalonia George Orwell
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott The Journal of Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott
The Real JRR Tolkien The Real JRR Tolkien Jesse Xander
Jane Austen's Cousin Jane Austen's Cousin Geri Walton