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Literary Reference Books
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The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,455 ratings — published 1918
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 3,585 ratings — published 1962
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 618 ratings — published 1982
The Reader's Companion to World Literature (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 44 ratings — published 1956
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 9,204 ratings — published 1962
Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,807 ratings — published 1989
Writers: Their Lives and Works (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 275 ratings — published 2018
Danse Macabre (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 31,630 ratings — published 1981
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,857 ratings — published 2006
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.77 — 2,321 ratings — published 2011
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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avg rating 4.04 — 283 ratings — published 1998
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 321,280 ratings — published 2000
On Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,329 ratings — published 2002
Mythology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 60,397 ratings — published 1942
Horror: The 100 Best Books (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 374 ratings — published 1988
The Origin and Deeds of the Goths (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 207 ratings — published 551
New History of the DC Universe (2025-) #1
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avg rating 4.06 — 203 ratings — published
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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avg rating 3.21 — 14 ratings — published 2004
Jane Austen (Writers & Their Works)
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avg rating 3.00 — 8 ratings — published 2003
Anthology of Chinese Literature (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 64 ratings — published 2010
The Essential Anthology of Victorian Literature (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2010
Anthology of American Literature (25+ Books with active table of contents)
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avg rating 2.33 — 3 ratings — published 2009
The Anthology of German Literature (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2010
The Big Red Book (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 889 ratings — published 2010
Anthology of English Literature (25+ Books with active table of contents)
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avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 2009
Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 866 ratings — published 2016
English Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.00 — 4 ratings — published 2014
Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 449 ratings — published 2021
The Great American Read: The Book of Books: Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,062 ratings — published 2018
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 1,694 ratings — published 2021
Great Short Poems: Selections by Shakespeare, Burns, Wordsworth, Shelley, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Dunbar and many more (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)
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avg rating 3.99 — 725 ratings — published 2000
Anthology of Greek Literature (40+ works with an active table of contents)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2009
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 44,502 ratings — published 1990
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 4,376 ratings — published 800
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 21,544 ratings — published 1973
Ulysses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 139,131 ratings — published 1922
Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 643 ratings — published 1984
Selected Essays (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 74 ratings — published
The Anthology of Italian Literature (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2010
The Anthology of French Literature (50+ works with an active table of contents)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2010
Anthology of Russian Literature (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 22 ratings — published 2010
Science Fiction: What It's All About (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 50 ratings — published 1969
Jane Austen: The Complete Collection (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.63 — 5,903 ratings — published 1989
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 362 ratings — published 1990
All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,107 ratings — published 2021
The Old English Herbals (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.94 — 50 ratings — published 1971
James Joyce: The Complete Collection (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.21 — 537 ratings — published 1937
Thomas Hardy (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.81 — 80 ratings — published 1977
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
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avg rating 3.65 — 720,073 ratings — published 2015
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 42,419 ratings — published 2021
“The photo had been taken at the opening of JB's fifth, long-delayed show, 'Frog and Toad,' which had been exclusively images of the two of them, but very blurred, and more abstract than JB's previous work. (They hadn't quite known what to think of the series title, though JB had claimed it was affectionate. 'Arnold Lobel?' he had screeched at them when they asked him about it. 'Hello?!' But neither he nor Willem had read Lobel's books as children, and they'd had to go out and buy them to make sense of the reference.)”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“I remember the book I was reading. Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector. I remember because there were so many things in Hour of the Star with which I found kinship that I'd brought along a stub of pencil in case I urgently needed to underline.”
― A Line Made By Walking
― A Line Made By Walking
