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The Year of the Jouncer — Simon Gray

The Year of the Jouncer

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The Orwell Diaries — George Orwell

The Orwell Diaries

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Stories For The Fireside Or Moral Improvement Illustrated (1839) — Miss Rignall

Stories For The Fireside Or Moral Improvement Illustrated (1839)

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Twenty-first-century Popular Fiction — Bernice M. Murphy

Twenty-first-century Popular Fiction

Bernice M. Murphy

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Selected Poems and Prose — Edward Thomas

Selected Poems and Prose

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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce — Colm Toibin

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

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Twilight in Italy and Other Essays — David Herbert Lawrence

Twilight in Italy and Other Essays

David Herbert Lawrence

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A Woman of No Importance — Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance

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Giving Shape to the Moment The Art of Mary O’Donnell : Poet, Novelist and Short Story Writer — María Elena Jaime de Pablos

Giving Shape to the Moment The Art of Mary O’Donnell : Poet, Novelist and Short Story Writer

María Elena Jaime de Pablos

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Openings & Outings An Anthology — David Pryce-Jones

Openings & Outings An Anthology

David Pryce-Jones

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Hudibras V3 With Dr. Grey’s Annotations (1819) — Samuel Butler

Hudibras V3 With Dr. Grey’s Annotations (1819)

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The Window Seat Notes from a Life in Motion — Aminatta Forna

The Window Seat Notes from a Life in Motion

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Granta 21 — Bill Buford

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A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century (Routledge Revivals) — Henry A. Beers

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century (Routledge Revivals)

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Selected Writings — Thomas Carlyle

Selected Writings

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Silly Novels by Lady Novelists — George Eliot

Silly Novels by Lady Novelists

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The Body — Bill Buford

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Feeding Frenzy — Will Self

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East Side Voices Essays Celebrating East and Southeast Asian Identity in Britain — Helena Lee

East Side Voices Essays Celebrating East and Southeast Asian Identity in Britain

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Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories — Enda Duffy

Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories

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Selected Journalism 1850-1870 — Charles Dickens

Selected Journalism 1850-1870

Charles Dickens

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On Being Ill With Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen — Virginia Woolf

On Being Ill With Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen

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Hermetica The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction — Brian P. Copenhaver

Hermetica The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction

Brian P. Copenhaver

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Somerville Hall Or Hints To Those Who Would Make Home Happy (1843) — Sarah Stickney Ellis

Somerville Hall Or Hints To Those Who Would Make Home Happy (1843)

Sarah Stickney Ellis

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This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Granta 28 by Bill Buford. Connected by Essays, Literary Collections. Authors featured include Simon Gray, George Orwell, Miss Rignall, Bernice M. Murphy, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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