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. 

Challenge Books

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Quicksand by Nella Larsen

Quicksand

Nella Larsen

192 pages • paperback • 1928

fiction classics emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

The Well of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall

448 pages • paperback • 1928

fiction classics lgbtqia+ emotional reflective sad slow-paced
The Beats: A Graphic History by Paul Buhle

The Beats: A Graphic History

Paul Buhle

208 pages • hardcover • 2009

nonfiction comics history adventurous medium-paced
Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled by Thadious M. Davis

Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled

Thadious M. Davis

496 pages • paperback • 1994

nonfiction biography history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Valerie Boyd

527 pages • paperback • 2002

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora Babb by Joanne Dearcopp, Christine Hill Smith

Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora Babb

Joanne Dearcopp, Christine Hill Smith

230 pages • paperback • 2021

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
An Owl on Every Post by Sanora Babb

An Owl on Every Post

Sanora Babb

268 pages • paperback • 1970

nonfiction biography history memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Anaïs Nin: A Biography by Deirdre Bair

Anaïs Nin: A Biography

Deirdre Bair

672 pages • 1995

nonfiction biography challenging informative reflective slow-paced
James Baldwin: A Biography by David A. Leeming

James Baldwin: A Biography

David A. Leeming

464 pages • hardcover • 1994

nonfiction biography history politics race informative reflective slow-paced
Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore: A History of Love and Violence Among the African American Elite by Eleanor Alexander

Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore: A History of Love and Violence Among the African American Elite

Eleanor Alexander

241 pages • 2001

nonfiction biography history challenging emotional reflective slow-paced