Lit Bio Books
Showing 1-50 of 239
James Joyce (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,995 ratings — published 1959
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,276,763 ratings — published 1963
Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.13 — 172 ratings — published 2015
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.28 — 27,024 ratings — published 2000
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,370 ratings — published 1993
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,811 ratings — published 2021
Will This Make You Happy: Stories & Recipes from a Year of Baking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.69 — 280 ratings — published
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.86 — 212,780 ratings — published 2007
Uncultured: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.14 — 20,712 ratings — published 2022
Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,772 ratings — published 1967
Лора, Яворов и аз (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.01 — 130 ratings — published
Извън редовете: романът на Яна Язова (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.47 — 245 ratings — published
The Letters of William Gaddis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.19 — 107 ratings — published 2013
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,781 ratings — published 2023
Raising Hare: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.29 — 39,092 ratings — published 2025
Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.41 — 246 ratings — published
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.55 — 10,722 ratings — published 1996
Coffee with Einstein (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.65 — 110 ratings — published 2008
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.12 — 238 ratings — published 2013
Mothers of the Mind: The Remarkable Women Who Shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.14 — 43 ratings — published
Three-a-Penny (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.73 — 45 ratings — published 2019
My Life with the Chimpanzees (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,088 ratings — published 1988
Mishima ou La vision du vide (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.68 — 883 ratings — published 1981
"We Met in Paris": Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.82 — 17 ratings — published 2018
Starting Point 1979-1996 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,660 ratings — published 1996
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,567,784 ratings — published 2022
Flaubert and Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.03 — 222 ratings — published 1977
Mamma: Reflections on the Food that Makes Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.75 — 40 ratings — published
Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.00 — 459 ratings — published 2024
The Wife of Bath: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.96 — 612 ratings — published 2023
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,414 ratings — published 2020
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.18 — 476 ratings — published 2025
Homework: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.69 — 424 ratings — published 2025
The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee Vivien (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.18 — 28 ratings — published 1988
Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.14 — 87 ratings — published
My Name Is Barbra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.17 — 22,004 ratings — published 2023
Three Mothers (and a Camel)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.80 — 79 ratings — published 2014
Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.25 — 393 ratings — published 2017
A Woman Appeared to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.20 — 499 ratings — published 1904
Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney (The Cutting Edge : Lesbian Life and Literature) (English and French Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.00 — 23 ratings — published 1929
Sonny Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,321 ratings — published 2024
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.93 — 314,023 ratings — published 2005
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.53 — 22,837 ratings — published 2018
May and Amy: A True Story of Family, Forbidden Love, and the Secret Lives of May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.63 — 135 ratings — published 2004
Chaucer: A European Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.24 — 237 ratings — published 2019
Ackerley: The Life of J.R. Ackerley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 4.23 — 31 ratings — published 1989
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.71 — 183 ratings — published 2025
Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.61 — 183 ratings — published 2007
#Girlboss (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as lit-bio)
avg rating 3.64 — 76,646 ratings — published 2014

