Literary Hot Goss

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4 participants (112 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read books throughout the year related to the personal lives of famous writers. As sophisticated  or trashy as you prefer. Range of books can include biographies/autobiographies, memoirs, semi-autobiographical elements found in their fiction, author’s private journals, essays, letter collections, travelogues, etc. 

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Iris Murdoch, a Writer at War: Letters and Diaries, 1939-1945 by Iris Murdoch, Peter J. Conradi

Iris Murdoch, a Writer at War: Letters and Diaries, 1939-1945

Iris Murdoch, Peter J. Conradi

304 pages • hardcover • 2002

nonfiction autobiography essays history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Diaries of Frank Kafka by Joseph Kresh, Franz Kafka

Diaries of Frank Kafka

Joseph Kresh, Franz Kafka

345 pages • paperback • 1949

nonfiction biography classics dark reflective medium-paced
More about Boy: Roald Dahl's Tales from Childhood by Roald Dahl

More about Boy: Roald Dahl's Tales from Childhood

Roald Dahl

223 pages • digital • 2009

nonfiction autobiography biography childrens adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

A Movable Feast

Ernest Hemingway

249 pages • digital • 1964

nonfiction classics memoir reflective medium-paced
The Language Wars: A History of Proper English by Henry Hitchings

The Language Wars: A History of Proper English

Henry Hitchings

408 pages • hardcover • 2011

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis by Adam Weiner

How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis

Adam Weiner

264 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging slow-paced
Drivel: Deliciously Bad Writing by Your Favorite Authors by Julia Scott

Drivel: Deliciously Bad Writing by Your Favorite Authors

Julia Scott

194 pages • paperback • 2014

nonfiction essays funny lighthearted slow-paced
America and Americans: And Selected Nonfiction by John Steinbeck

America and Americans: And Selected Nonfiction

John Steinbeck

448 pages • paperback • 1966

nonfiction classics essays adventurous reflective medium-paced
Dogging Steinbeck: How I went in search of John Steinbeck's America, found my own America, and exposed the truth about 'Travels With Char by Bill Steigerwald

Dogging Steinbeck: How I went in search of John Steinbeck's America, found my own America, and exposed the truth about 'Travels With Char

Bill Steigerwald

270 pages • paperback • 2012

nonfiction biography history travel informative reflective slow-paced
Hemingway and Me: Letters, Anecdotes, and Memories of a Life-Changing Friendship by Jeffrey Lyons

Hemingway and Me: Letters, Anecdotes, and Memories of a Life-Changing Friendship

Jeffrey Lyons

160 pages • hardcover

nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced