5 Best biography books like Anais Nin's Lost World: Paris in Words and Pictures 1924-1939 by Britt Arenander

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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…

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1. 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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"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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2. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

By: Caitlin Doughty

4.22

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degre… read more

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  • biography
"Your relationship to mortality is your own."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

"In spite of my fear of living, I chose not to die."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

"A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

"The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

3. Apprenticed to Venus: My Secret Life with Anaïs Nin

By: Tristine Rainer

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"I first met Anais in 1962 at her Village apartment, when I was an eighteen-year-old virgin." And s… read more

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4. 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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5. Winter Recipes from the Collective

By: Louise Glück

3.99

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more

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"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

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7. A Ghost in the Throat

By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa

4.04

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and auto… read more

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  • biography
"Swift, the twist from ordinary to catastrophe."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"Instead, I'll think of new words, and then I'll follow them."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"We cannot know from whose mouths the echoes of our lives will chime."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"We cannot permit reason to intrude upon this moment. Do not deny us this."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

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8. 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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Cover of Anais Nin's Lost World: Paris in Words and Pictures 1924-1939 by Britt Arenander

9. 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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13 best-selling literature books like D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study by Anaïs Nin

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Virginia Woolf

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