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From Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux’s intimate vignettes of memory to powerful political manifestos from the likes of George Orwell and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and from stunning nature writing to captivating meditations on reading and storytelling, this is your ultimate destination for the finest essay writing across the board. Explore our selection of bestselling essays here, from evergreen classics to powerful fresh pieces from authors we love.

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Conversations on Love
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Natasha Lunn
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Manifesto
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Manifesto
Bernardine Evaristo
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The Years
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The Years
Annie Ernaux
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What Just Happened?!
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What Just Happened?!
Marina Hyde
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I Feel Bad About My Neck
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I Feel Bad About My Neck
Nora Ephron
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A Room of One's Own
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A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
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Notes on Grief
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Notes on Grief
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Doors of Perception
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The Doors of Perception
Aldous Huxley
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The White Album
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The White Album
Joan Didion
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12 Bytes
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Jeanette Winterson
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Mantel Pieces
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Mantel Pieces
Hilary Mantel
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Lost Cat
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Lost Cat
Mary Gaitskill
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Haywire
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Haywire
Craig Brown
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The Good Immigrant
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The Good Immigrant
Nikesh Shukla
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Books v. Cigarettes
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Books v. Cigarettes
George Orwell
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Burning Questions
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Burning Questions
Margaret Atwood
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Citizen
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Citizen
Claudia Rankine
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Daemon Voices
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Daemon Voices
Philip Pullman
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Novelist as a Vocation
Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
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The celebrated author of Norwegian Wood, 1Q84 and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running presents his musings on the peculiar profession of the novelist, discussing his own creative process as well as the role of novelists in society in characteristically luminous prose.
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Our Best Political Essays

The Most of Nora Ephron
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The Most of Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
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On Tyranny
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On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
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We Should All Be Feminists
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We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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It's Not About the Burqa
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It's Not About the Burqa
Mariam Khan
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The Tipping Point
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The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Susan Sontag
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Black British Lives Matter
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Black British Lives Matter
Lenny Henry
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Trick Mirror
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Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
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The Souls of Black Folk
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The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The Stonewall Reader
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The Stonewall Reader
Jason Baumann
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East Side Voices
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East Side Voices
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The Communist Manifesto
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?
Pandora Sykes
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Selected Works
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Selected Works
Cicero
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A Modest Proposal
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A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
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White
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White
Bret Easton Ellis
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
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Unattached
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Unattached
Angelica Malin
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Our Best Biographical Essays

Notes on Grief
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Why I Write
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Why I Write
George Orwell
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Funny Weather
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Funny Weather
Olivia Laing
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The Fight
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The Fight
Norman Mailer
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Intimations
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Intimations
Zadie Smith
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Real Estate
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Real Estate
Deborah Levy
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And When Did You Last See Your Father?
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And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Blake Morrison
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Notes to Self
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Notes to Self
Emilie Pine
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Too Much of Life
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Too Much of Life
Clarice Lispector
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Green Hills of Africa
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Green Hills of Africa
Ernest Hemingway
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The Crane Wife
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The Crane Wife
Christina Joyce Hauser
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The Little Virtues
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The Little Virtues
Natalia Ginzburg
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Of This Our Country
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Of This Our Country
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Tell Me the Truth About Love
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Tell Me the Truth About Love
Susanna Abse
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A Woman's Battles and Transformations
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A Woman's Battles and Transformations
Edouard Louis
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My Mess Is a Bit of a Life
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My Mess Is a Bit of a Life
Georgia Pritchett
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Abominations
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Abominations
Lionel Shriver
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On the End of the World
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Joseph Roth
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Our Best Nature & Travel Essays

Vesper Flights
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Helen Macdonald
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Wanderers
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Wanderers
Kerri Andrews
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In the Garden
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In the Garden
Various Authors
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Fen, Bog and Swamp
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Fen, Bog and Swamp
Annie Proulx
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Landmarks
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Landmarks
Robert Macfarlane
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The Art of Solitude
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The Art of Solitude
Zachary Seager
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Surfacing
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Surfacing
Kathleen Jamie
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Journeys
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Journeys
Stefan Zweig
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Small Bodies of Water
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Small Bodies of Water
Nina Mingya Powles
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Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
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Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Henry Thoreau
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World of Wonders
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World of Wonders
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
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Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
George Orwell
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Figures in a Landscape
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Figures in a Landscape
Paul Theroux
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The Science of Middle-earth
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The Science of Middle-earth
Tina Kover
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The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy
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The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy
Gavin Maxwell
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On Animals
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On Animals
Susan Orlean
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Starlight Wood
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Starlight Wood
Fiona Sampson
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Walking in Berlin
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Walking in Berlin
Franz Hessel
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Word Perfect
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Susie Dent
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House Arrest
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House Arrest
Alan Bennett
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Man's Search For Meaning
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Viktor E Frankl
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The Art of War
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Sun-Tzu
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The Most of Nora Ephron
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Nora Ephron
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The Living Mountain
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Nan Shepherd
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Ways of Seeing
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Ways of Seeing
John Berger
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
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Notes on Grief
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Women Don't Owe You Pretty
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Florence Given
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Joan Didion
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Why I Write
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Why I Write
George Orwell
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Women & Power
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Professor Mary Beard
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12 Bytes
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Jeanette Winterson
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Playing to the Gallery
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Playing to the Gallery
Grayson Perry
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Unreliable Memoirs
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Unreliable Memoirs
Clive James
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Stigma
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Stigma
Erving Goffman
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Writers on Writing & Books on Books

On Writing
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Stephen King
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Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists
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Henry Eliot
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Blurb Your Enthusiasm
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Blurb Your Enthusiasm
Louise Willder
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Why We Read
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Why We Read
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Ex Libris
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Ex Libris
Michiko Kakutani
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Dylan Thomas Omnibus
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Dylan Thomas Omnibus
Dylan Thomas
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This is the Canon
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This is the Canon
Joan Anim-Addo
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Daemon Voices
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Philip Pullman
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Dear Reader
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Dear Reader
Cathy Rentzenbrink
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Homo Irrealis
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Homo Irrealis
Andre Aciman
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The View from the Cheap Seats
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The View from the Cheap Seats
Neil Gaiman
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How to be Well Read
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How to be Well Read
John Sutherland
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How to Read Now
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How to Read Now
Elaine Castillo
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
Colm Toibin
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The Amis Collection
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The Amis Collection
Kingsley Amis
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Selected Essays
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Selected Essays
Virginia Woolf
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What to Read Next
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What to Read Next
Stig Abell
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Brave New Words
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Brave New Words
Susheila Nasta
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