All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
By: Katharine Smyth
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives -- and see clear…
Want to Read $ 13.99"A marriage is a secret, an alliance so private that even one's closest friends are privy only to its contours, to the performance that it becomes in public; no one on the outside could know the precise nature of its dynamics within."-Katharine Smyth, All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
"A marriage is a secret, an alliance so private that even one's closest friends are privy only to its contours, to the performance that it becomes in public; no one on the outside could know the precise nature of its dynamics within."-Katharine Smyth, All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
"Now I made myself scarce; I shut the door to my room and talked on the phone with friends or watched movies. My mother also disappeared, playing solitaire on the computer upstairs or reading in bed. I rarely went to her. You would think my father's behavior might have brought us together; in fact, it drove us apart."-Katharine Smyth, All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
"Now I made myself scarce; I shut the door to my room and talked on the phone with friends or watched movies. My mother also disappeared, playing solitaire on the computer upstairs or reading in bed. I rarely went to her. You would think my father's behavior might have brought us together; in fact, it drove us apart."-Katharine Smyth, All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
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1. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
By: Virginia Woolf
3.75
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more
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"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
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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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
3. Jacob's Room
By: Virginia Woolf
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive yo… read more
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"One must love everything."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"Marvelous are the innocent. "-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"But language is wine upon his lips"-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"It is no use trying to sum people up."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
4. I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
By: Pamela Des Barres , Dave Navarro
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1… read more
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5. Transit
By: Rachel Cusk
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Revi… read more
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6. So Brave, Young and Handsome
By: Leif Enger
3.60
Format: 212 pages,
A stunning successor to his best selling novel "Peace Like a River," Leif Enger's new work is a rug… read more
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7. Swimming Home
By: Deborah Levy , Tom McCarthy
4.04
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Swimming Homeis a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression ca… read more
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8. Maktub
By: Paulo Coelho
4.60
Format: None pages,
Maktub nao e um livro de conselhos, mas uma troca de experiencias. A maior parte dos textos se refe… read more
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9. Devotion
By: Patti Smith
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative … read more
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10. Truth and Beauty
By: Ann Patchett
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writ… read more
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11. A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
By: Joanna Biggs
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times , The Week , Vulture , Elle, and The Mi… read more
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"The wound my unsuspecting heart formerly received is not healed,"-Joanna Biggs, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
12. The Peacock and the Sparrow
By: I.S. Berry
3.81
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NPR BEST B… read more
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"Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"I was free from the tangle of mistakes, promises, and defeats that grips a man's heels, taunts him with flashes of its sinewy strength."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"Nobody in espionage could justify sympathy. Right and wrong existed on paper, but in reality all that existed were the amorphous masses of in-between."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"At the end of the road, I've learned, espionage turns into a profession of ghosts. The culmination of actions taken or not taken, ends swallowed by means. A place where, even after you disappear, you…"-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
13. Weather
By: Jenny Offill
3.55
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a v… read more
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"How do you know all this?"-Jenny Offill, Weather
"They say when you're lonely you start to lose words."-Jenny Offill, Weather
"Later, I remember to tell Ben about the girl. “Seconds!"-Jenny Offill, Weather
"If only I’d remembered that old proverb: When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep. "-Jenny Offill, Weather
14. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
15. After Sappho
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3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
16. Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
By: Virginia Woolf
4.46
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless… read more
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"I miss you even more than I could have believed ;and I was prepared to miss you a good deal"-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
"Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this."-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
"I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross; that its to be pulled through only in …"-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
"And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so that anything which I do finally incubate out of my system into wo…"-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
17. The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
By: Nancy Pearl
3.78
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Introduction by Susan Orlean Twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Ta… read more
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18. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
By: Caleb Carr
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist, Caleb Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, … read more
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19. The Dictator's Wife
By: Freya Berry
3.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
'I know you would like to hate me. History is written by the victors, and these are always men...' … read more
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20. All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
By: Katharine Smyth
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives -- and see clear… read more
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"A marriage is a secret, an alliance so private that even one's closest friends are privy only to its contours, to the performance that it becomes in public; no one on the outside could know the preci…"-Katharine Smyth, All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
"Now I made myself scarce; I shut the door to my room and talked on the phone with friends or watched movies. My mother also disappeared, playing solitaire on the computer upstairs or reading in bed. …"-Katharine Smyth, All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
