8 must-read nonfiction books like Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson

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Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence

By: Frances Wilson

3.87

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his difficult middle y…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Pale King

By: David Foster Wallace , Michael Pietsch

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Hardcover

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to ne… read more

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2. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith

By: Andrew Wilson

4.36

Format: 184 pages,

The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known chara… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

3. Townie

By: Andre Dubus III

4.11

Format: 288 pages,

An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him -… read more

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4. The Rainbow

By: D.H. Lawrence , Daphne Merkin

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A controversial classic from D.H. Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Lush with religi… read more

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5. Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

By: Geoff Dyer

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Geoff Dyer had always wanted to write a book about D. H. Lawrence. He wanted, in fact, to write his… read more

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6. Bastard Out of Carolina

By: Dorothy Allison

3.99

Format: 32 pages,

Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, … read more

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7. Darkness Visible

By: William Golding

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

A dazzlingly dark novel by the Nobel Laureate. At the height of the London blitz, a naked child ste… read more

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8. The Return of the Native

By: Thomas Hardy , Alexander Theroux

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

The Return of the Nativeis a work by Thomas Hardy now brought to you in this new edition of the tim… read more

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9. How to Be Both

By: Ali Smith

4.10

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more

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10. The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

By: Iris Murdoch

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the c… read more

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11. Novelist as a Vocation

By: Haruki Murakami

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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12. Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather

By: Benjamin Taylor

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant explorati… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence

By: Frances Wilson

3.87

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his difficult middle y… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • 21st century
  • audiobook
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14. Second Place

By: Rachel Cusk

3.68

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed s… read more

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  • 21st century
  • audiobook
"Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards."

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"Muutoksen ja toiston kaava on niin tiukasti yhteydessä tietynlaiseen harmoniaan elämässä, ja vapauden harjoittaminen on alisteista sille aivan kuin opinkappaleelle. Muutoksia täytyy annostella kohtuu…"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu …"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"It struck me how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless …"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

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15. Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.11

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is … read more

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  • audiobook
"I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)

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16. Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

By: Jeremy Eichler

4.54

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wart… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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17. Old Baggage

By: Lissa Evans

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What do you do next, after you’ve changed the world? It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting throug… read more

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  • audiobook
  • british literature
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18. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

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19. The Topeka School

By: Ben Lerner

3.50

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive famil… read more

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  • audiobook
"The problem for him in high school was that debate made you a nerd and poetry made you a pussy – even if both could help you get to the vaguely imagines East Coast city from which your experiences in…"

-Ben Lerner, The Topeka School

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20. Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

By: Ian Penman

4.02

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thou… read more

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  • 21st century
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The problem with making art to wake people up: your ideal reader/viewer is therefore by definition probably asleep, and not the least bit interested in your kind of wake-up-you-sleepwalkers art."

-Ian Penman, Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

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21. Look! We Have Come Through!: Living With D. H. Lawrence

By: Lara Feigel

3.60

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Lara Feigel listens to birds outside her window - their circling, strident calls - and thinks of D.… read more

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  • 21st century
  • nonfiction
  • british literature

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3.89

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3.73

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Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence

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3.87

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Second Place

Rachel Cusk

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Colm Tóibín

3.72

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Hernan Diaz

3.83

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4.18

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