208 ratings (4.46 avg)
226 reviews
more photos (5)

John

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/jrw712

John’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1164)
currently-reading‎ (1)
read‎ (297)
literary-biography‎ (83)

soviet-history‎ (43)
james-family‎ (17)
memoir‎ (10)
american-transcendentalists‎ (6)

literary-criticism‎ (6)
political-biography‎ (6)
19th-cent-us-history‎ (4)
general-biography‎ (3)

western-culture‎ (3)
first-reads‎ (1)
systems-engineering‎ (1)

Stats | More…

John is Currently Reading

John is currently reading

Pessoa: A Biography

by Richard Zenith

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

progress:

(page 870 of 1088)
— Jun 10, 2022 04:39AM

Jun 10, 2022 04:39AM

Memoirs and Biographies We Love — 1370 members — last activity Feb 24, 2026 01:02PM
A place to share memoirs, biographies, autobiographies (and maybe even fiction-based-in-reality) that you have enjoyed!

Personal Writer/Public Reader — 11 members — last activity Jul 31, 2009 01:22AM
Writers, have you written something non-fiction and very personal that's meant for public consumption? What was your motivation to do that? Was the e ...more

Divine Comedy + Decameron — 268 members — last activity Nov 07, 2020 01:07PM
This group is for those interested in reading either or both Dante's Divine Comedy or Boccaccio's Decameron in 2014. Each read will be non-concurrent ...more

500 Great Books By Women — 1610 members — last activity Sep 01, 2025 05:18AM
500 Great Books By Women A Reader's Guide to the Worlds of Women's Writing Be sure to check out the bookshelf and see if you've reviewed any of the ...more