Oscar: A Life
By: Matthew Sturgis
4.29
Format: 740 pages, Hardcover
The fullest, most textural, most accurate--most human--account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling…
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1. The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Allen Cave
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal … read more
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- literature
2. A Woman of No Importance
By: Oscar Wilde
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's lo… read more
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- literature
- 19th century
3. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more
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- literature
4. My Life as a Man
By: Philip Roth
4.12
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on… read more
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- literature
5. De Profundis
By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- queer
- lgbt
6. The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
By: Kevin Birmingham
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel in the… read more
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- literature
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
7. The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
By: Oscar Wilde
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Large format for easy reading. Perhaps the most famous poem from the famous dramatist, novelist and… read more
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- literature
- 19th century
8. Look Homeward, Angel
By: Thomas Wolfe
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning, classic coming-of-age novel written by one of America's foremost Southern writers A l… read more
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9. The Sphinx Without a Secret
By: Oscar Wilde
3.67
Format: 117 pages, ebook
The Sphinx Without A Secret is a short story which centres around two college friends, who, after n… read more
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10. Essence of the Upanishads: A Key to Indian Spirituality
By: Eknath Easwaran
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Through his interpretation of one important Upanishad, an ancient wisdom text, Eknath Easwaran show… read more
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11. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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- literature
- 19th century
- audiobook
"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
12. The Duchess of Padua
By: Oscar Wilde
4.00
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
'The Duchess of Padua' is a five-act play by Oscar Wilde which was originally written for American … read more
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13. An Ideal Husband
By: Oscar Wilde
4.33
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Although Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one n… read more
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14. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- biography
- history
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
15. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- lgbt
- queer
"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
16. Becoming Ted
By: Matt Cain
3.90
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly joyful, surprising story about love, acceptance, and self-expression from the acclaime… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
17. Nothing Special
By: Nicole Flattery
3.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother … read more
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- historical
- audiobook
18. Lucky
By: Jane Smiley
3.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
19. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir
By: Lucinda Williams
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)
By: Michael Scott-Baumann
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed ove… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
21. One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
By: Michael Frank
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
One of Wall Street Journal ’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Award… read more
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- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I do believe that as we travel through life we become a different person in every situation, or context, or phase."-Michael Frank, One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
22. The Return of the Pharaoh: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.
By: Nicholas Meyer
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In Nicholas Meyer's The Return of the Pharaoh , Sherlock Holmes returns in an adventure that takes … read more
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- historical
- audiobook
23. The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur
By: Max Adams
3.77
Format: 545 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British h… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
24. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir
By: Owen Elliot-Kugell
3.96
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars
By: Francesca Wade
4.16
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing group portrait of five women writers, including Virginia Woolf, who moved to London's… read more
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- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London
By: Claire Harman
3.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed biographer--the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that r… read more
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- history
- 19th century
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Oscar: A Life
By: Matthew Sturgis
4.29
Format: 740 pages, Hardcover
The fullest, most textural, most accurate--most human--account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- history
- lgbt
- literature
- historical
- 19th century
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
28. Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
By: Jack Hartnell
3.92
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
29. Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit
By: Antonia Fraser
3.73
Format: 224 pages, ebook
The vivid and dramatic life of Lady Caroline Lamb, whose scandalous love affair with Lord Byron ove… read more
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- history
- 19th century
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Making Oscar Wilde
By: Michèle Mendelssohn
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
*PEN America Biography Prize SEMI-FINALIST *Biographers' Club Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- lgbt
31. The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family
By: Olivia Williams
3.61
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed bir… read more
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- history
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
