13 best-selling literature books like D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study by Anaïs Nin

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D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study

By: Anaïs Nin

3.88

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

In 1932, two years after D. H. Lawrence’s death, a young woman wrote a book about him and presented…

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1. Black Looks: Race and Representation

By: bell hooks

4.36

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In these twelve essays, bell hooks digs ever deeper into the personal and political consequences of… read more

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  • nonfiction
"...consider the possibility that to love blackness is dangerous in a white supremacist culture- so threatening, so serious a breach in the fabric of the social order, that death is the punishment."

-bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

"Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, predominantly white folks in the audience were there because the film in no way interrogates “whiten…"

-bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

"Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are all just people) that they think will ma…"

-bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

"The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that brutal imperial ruling-class capitalist patriarchal whiteness that presents itself -its way of life…"

-bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

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2. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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  • literature
"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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3. The Bluest Eye

By: Toni Morrison

4.12

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and bol… read more

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  • literature
"Lonely was much better than alone."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

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4. Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin

By: Margo Finch , Noël Riley Fitch

3.90

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Anais Nin was the ultimate femme fatale, a passionate and mysterious woman, world famous for her ex… read more

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  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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5. Gigi and The Cat

By: Colette Gauthier-Villars

3.64

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780099422754 Gigi is being educated in the skills of the Courte… read more

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  • literature
"If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting."

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Gigi and The Cat

"I put on a martyred expression - like this - as if I was bored to death with every luxury under the sun. I had the time of my life."

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Gigi and The Cat

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6. Demian

By: Hermann Hesse

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Er… read more

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  • literature
"Fate and character are different names for the same idea."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"En estos momentos tuve una certeza fulminante: cada uno tenía una “misión"

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

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7. The Pure and the Impure

By: Colette Gauthier-Villars , Judith Thurman , Herma Briffault

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to… read more

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  • literature
"Lecz kobiecie z trudem przychodzi nie oddac sie mezczyznie"

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure

"Istnieje mniej sposobow uprawiania milosci, niz sie mowi, lecz duzo wiecej, niz sie mysli."

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure

"I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually."

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure

"Niczego mi w zyciu nie braklo, ani urody, ani szczescia, ani nieszczescia; ani mezczyzn, ani kobiet...to dopiero mozna nazwac zyciem!"

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure

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8. Against Nature

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness

3.87

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more

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  • literature
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9. The Well of Loneliness

By: Radclyffe Hall

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disgu… read more

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10. Quartet

By: Jean Rhys

3.95

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

Aperitifs in smoky Montparnasse cafes, cheap hotel rooms, and Marya Zelli, trying to make of her li… read more

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  • literature
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11. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow

By: Ted Hughes

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Hardcover

Crowwas Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In… read more

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12. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

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  • literature
"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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13. Tropic of Cancer

By: Henry Miller

0.00

Format: None pages,

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more

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  • literature
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14. Written on the Body

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. … read more

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  • literature

15. When God Was a Woman

By: Merlin Stone

3.52

Format: 257 pages,

Here, archaeologically documented, is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Known by many names… read more

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16. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.50

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Lawrence's frank portrayal of an extramarital affair and the explicit sexual explorations of its ce… read more

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  • literature
"We fucked a flame into being."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

17. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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18. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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19. Walden & Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau , W.S. Merwin

3.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

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20. The Image

By: Jean de Berg , None

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Originally published in France in 1958 and immediately banned, this novel concerns the sexual games… read more

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21. Sula

By: Toni Morrison

3.97

Format: None pages,

This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more

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22. Nightwood

By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more

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23. Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

By: bell hooks

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can… read more

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24. Beloved

By: Toni Morrison

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more

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25. Passing

By: Nella Larsen

3.93

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more

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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

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26. Mrs. Caliban

By: Rachel Ingalls

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Now back in print, Mrs. Caliban is “totally unforgettable” ( The New York Times Book Review ) and “… read more

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"Drugs,"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"Why do you call him a monster?"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"I can’t imagine living in a different time,"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"Still, people would notice a man with a green head. I guess I should get you a wig."

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

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27. Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

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28. I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

By: Miranda Seymour

3.85

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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29. The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine

By: Jen Gunter

4.35

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

OB/GYN, writer for The New York Times, USA Today, and Self, and host of the show Jensplaining, Dr. … read more

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  • nonfiction
"There is a strong mind-body connection so depression and anxiety are important cofactors for pain. They don't cause it but they are accelerants. Think of whatever causes your pain as the match that s…"

-Jen Gunter, The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine

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30. D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study

By: Anaïs Nin

3.88

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

In 1932, two years after D. H. Lawrence’s death, a young woman wrote a book about him and presented… read more

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  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • criticism
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31. Anais Nin's Lost World: Paris in Words and Pictures 1924-1939

By: Britt Arenander

4.08

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

Few writers are as legendary as Anaïs Nin. Her diaries, both expurgated and unexpurgated, and a hos… read more

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  • biography

6 Best nonfiction books like D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study by Anaïs Nin

Transform Your Habits

Black Looks: Race and Representation

bell hooks

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin

Margo Finch , Noël Riley Fitch

3.90

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Rememberings

Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

Transform Your Habits

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

Miranda Seymour

3.85

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Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

Jean Rhys , Diana Athill

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Katherine Rundell

4.18

Transform Your Habits

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

Miranda Seymour

3.85

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A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

Hilary Mantel

4.33

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