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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The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor by Maxwell E. Perkins

The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor

Maxwell E. Perkins

361 pages • hardcover • 2004

nonfiction emotional informative medium-paced
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West

280 pages • paperback • 1984

nonfiction biography lgbtqia+ emotional reflective medium-paced
Andre and Oscar: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde by Jonathan Fryer

Andre and Oscar: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde

Jonathan Fryer

268 pages • paperback • 1997

nonfiction biography lgbtqia+ informative medium-paced
Catholic Literary Giants: A Field Guide to the Catholic Literary Landscape by Joseph Pearce

Catholic Literary Giants: A Field Guide to the Catholic Literary Landscape

Joseph Pearce

425 pages • paperback • 2005

nonfiction religion challenging informative slow-paced
Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961 by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

Ernest Hemingway

976 pages • hardcover • 1981

nonfiction memoir emotional medium-paced
The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants by Alexandra Popoff

The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants

Alexandra Popoff

352 pages • paperback • 2012

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
The Book of Awesome Women Writers: Medieval Mystics, Pioneering Poets, Fierce Feminists and First Ladies of Literature by Becca Anderson

The Book of Awesome Women Writers: Medieval Mystics, Pioneering Poets, Fierce Feminists and First Ladies of Literature

Becca Anderson

336 pages • digital • 2020

nonfiction feminism reference challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

237 pages • paperback • 1998

nonfiction biography history reference informative slow-paced
Writing Away the Stigma: Ten Courageous Writers Tell True Stories About Depression, Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, OCD, PTSD & more by Lee Gutkind

Writing Away the Stigma: Ten Courageous Writers Tell True Stories About Depression, Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, OCD, PTSD & more

Lee Gutkind

96 pages • paperback

nonfiction classics essays literary
Literary Legacies of the Federal Writers' Project: Voices of the Depression in the American Postwar Era by Sara Rutkowski

Literary Legacies of the Federal Writers' Project: Voices of the Depression in the American Postwar Era

American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

Sara Rutkowski

110 pages • paperback

nonfiction classics literary medium-paced