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Literary Biography Books
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Charles Dickens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,220 ratings — published 2011
The Brontës (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,302 ratings — published 1994
Jane Austen: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,818 ratings — published 1997
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,562 ratings — published 2015
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,370 ratings — published 2016
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,588 ratings — published 2001
Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,331 ratings — published 2010
Virginia Woolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,972 ratings — published 1996
Jane Austen at Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 10,837 ratings — published 2017
Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,995 ratings — published 2015
Thomas Hardy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,796 ratings — published 2006
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,878 ratings — published 2004
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,863 ratings — published 2007
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 236 ratings — published 2013
The Invisible Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,821 ratings — published 1990
Byron: Life and Legend (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 630 ratings — published 2002
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.95 — 662 ratings — published 2001
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 599 ratings — published 2009
The Life of Charlotte Brontë (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,038 ratings — published 1857
Shelley: The Pursuit (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.39 — 414 ratings — published 1974
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,651 ratings — published 2020
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 608 ratings — published 2021
Dickens (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,363 ratings — published 1990
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,811 ratings — published 2017
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.98 — 551 ratings — published 2008
Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 358 ratings — published 1993
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,204 ratings — published 2009
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.97 — 913 ratings — published 2009
Oscar Wilde (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,176 ratings — published 1987
Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,166 ratings — published 2002
The Brontë Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,110 ratings — published 2001
The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.64 — 853 ratings — published 1960
Anne Sexton: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,070 ratings — published 1991
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,988 ratings — published 2022
These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.08 — 840 ratings — published 2020
Agatha Christie (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,590 ratings — published 2007
Tolstoy: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.03 — 434 ratings — published 1988
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,605 ratings — published 2013
The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 339 ratings — published 2013
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 475 ratings — published 2010
Virginia Woolf: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,054 ratings — published 1971
George Eliot (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.78 — 139 ratings — published 1987
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,670 ratings — published 2009
Cheever: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 735 ratings — published 2009
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,757 ratings — published 1999
Jane Austen: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,457 ratings — published 2001
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.06 — 16,595 ratings — published 1977
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.68 — 768 ratings — published 2009
Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 861 ratings — published 1994
Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath - A Marriage (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-biography)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,743 ratings — published 2003
