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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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Herman Melville: A Biography (Vol. 1, 1819-1851)
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4.09 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
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4.22 avg rating — 7,408 ratings
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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4.38 avg rating — 6,306 ratings
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Herman Melville: A Biography (Vol. 2, 1851-1891)
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Alice Walker: A Life
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
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Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
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4.49 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
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Jenn Shapland (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 2,797 ratings
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Edith Wharton
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3.92 avg rating — 1,159 ratings
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
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Ruth Franklin (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 5,320 ratings
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Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami
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3.73 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Mary Shelley
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3.67 avg rating — 222 ratings
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