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A Moveable Feast
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4.02 avg rating — 168,681 ratings
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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3.88 avg rating — 10,906 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 586,679 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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4.09 avg rating — 102,721 ratings
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Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
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4.20 avg rating — 11,895 ratings
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Charles Dickens
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3.92 avg rating — 7,228 ratings
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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4.12 avg rating — 18,691 ratings
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Confessions
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3.60 avg rating — 9,202 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 321,025 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,376,394 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals
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4.16 avg rating — 64,396 ratings
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Speak, Memory
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4.08 avg rating — 17,828 ratings
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
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3.76 avg rating — 9,730 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.33 avg rating — 35,148 ratings
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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
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3.93 avg rating — 15,699 ratings
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
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4.11 avg rating — 8,553 ratings
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A Writer's Diary
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4.17 avg rating — 6,587 ratings
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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4.28 avg rating — 26,680 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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3.93 avg rating — 307,129 ratings
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Capote
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4.17 avg rating — 5,194 ratings
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Zelda
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3.82 avg rating — 10,445 ratings
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The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
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3.84 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Virginia Woolf
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4.01 avg rating — 4,975 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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3.77 avg rating — 205,501 ratings
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
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3.99 avg rating — 31,796 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 895,645 ratings
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Dickens
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3.89 avg rating — 2,366 ratings
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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3.82 avg rating — 49,345 ratings
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Oscar Wilde: A Biography
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4.01 avg rating — 5,181 ratings
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West with the Night
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4.15 avg rating — 41,346 ratings
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Testament of Youth
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4.11 avg rating — 12,527 ratings
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Must you go?: my life with Harold Pinter
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3.62 avg rating — 1,041 ratings
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Joseph Anton: A Memoir
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3.65 avg rating — 9,342 ratings
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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3.61 avg rating — 7,651 ratings
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Jane Austen: A Life
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3.90 avg rating — 11,835 ratings
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Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
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4.06 avg rating — 1,288 ratings
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Anne Sexton: A Biography
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4.17 avg rating — 4,071 ratings
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
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3.85 avg rating — 9,056 ratings
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Thomas Hardy
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4.09 avg rating — 1,796 ratings
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
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4.23 avg rating — 7,609 ratings
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
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3.98 avg rating — 3,578 ratings
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Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
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3.88 avg rating — 1,761 ratings
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Shelley: The Pursuit
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4.40 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Homage To Catalonia / Down And Out In Paris And London
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4.26 avg rating — 624 ratings
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Marcel Proust
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3.86 avg rating — 1,072 ratings
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Travels with Myself and Another
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3.84 avg rating — 2,345 ratings
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My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
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3.89 avg rating — 12,499 ratings
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Shakespeare: The Biography
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4.03 avg rating — 2,344 ratings
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Nancy Mitford: A Biography
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3.98 avg rating — 330 ratings
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An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
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4.21 avg rating — 2,580 ratings
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The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography
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4.15 avg rating — 600 ratings
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Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life
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4.08 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand
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3.94 avg rating — 813 ratings
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The Private World of Georgette Heyer
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3.92 avg rating — 1,505 ratings
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James Joyce
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4.34 avg rating — 2,981 ratings
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Running with Scissors
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3.77 avg rating — 405,201 ratings
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Half Broke Horses
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4.09 avg rating — 174,161 ratings
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Augustine of Hippo: A Biography
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4.27 avg rating — 2,283 ratings
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Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life
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3.99 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller
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4.26 avg rating — 43 ratings
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
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4.08 avg rating — 4,396 ratings
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The House of Mitford
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3.81 avg rating — 365 ratings
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
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3.80 avg rating — 5,365 ratings
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Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 661,248 ratings
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The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys
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3.69 avg rating — 294 ratings
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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
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4.47 avg rating — 5,424 ratings
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The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
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3.75 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
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The Autobiography: Truth and poetry: from my own life
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3.81 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Hons and Rebels
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4.11 avg rating — 5,616 ratings
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Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
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4.13 avg rating — 12,654 ratings
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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3.54 avg rating — 13,546 ratings
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Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch
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3.71 avg rating — 3,051 ratings
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A Christmas Memory
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4.24 avg rating — 18,934 ratings
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Shelley and His World
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4.04 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
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3.97 avg rating — 1,060 ratings
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The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 1: 1904-1939
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4.14 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Edith Wharton
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3.92 avg rating — 1,168 ratings
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The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
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4.23 avg rating — 665 ratings
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The Life of My Choice
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4.16 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Chatterton
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3.67 avg rating — 1,937 ratings
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The Story of My Life
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4.07 avg rating — 151,605 ratings
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The World I Live In
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3.96 avg rating — 1,273 ratings
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The Prelude
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3.88 avg rating — 4,243 ratings
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Unruly Times
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3.61 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Blake
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4.07 avg rating — 917 ratings
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Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life
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3.90 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Letters and Journals
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3.95 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller
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3.93 avg rating — 618 ratings
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My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood
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4.27 avg rating — 1,140 ratings
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Geoffrey Chaucer of England
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3.93 avg rating — 45 ratings
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A Backward Glance
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3.79 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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Searching for Shakespeare
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4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Very Private Eye: The Diaries, Letters and Notebooks of Barbara Pym
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4.01 avg rating — 339 ratings
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Myself When Young
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3.87 avg rating — 735 ratings
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Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl
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3.88 avg rating — 1,465 ratings
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The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends
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3.94 avg rating — 3,826 ratings
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Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works
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3.94 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Ben Jonson of Westminster
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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C.S. Lewis: A Biography
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3.64 avg rating — 594 ratings
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Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903-1939
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings
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