Read-alikes and related books

Books like Mark Twain

Readers who finished Mark Twain by Geoffrey C. Ward and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by AUTHORSHIP, Writing, Literary Figures, and 19th Century.

AUTHORSHIP Writing Literary Figures 19th Century Literary Criticism American Language Arts & Disciplines United States Literary Biography & Autobiography History

Top related books to Mark Twain

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Mark Twain.

Sentiment & Celebrity Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame

Thomas Nelson Baker

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

Jack’s Book An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

Barry Gifford

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

The Life of Raymond Chandler

Frank MacShane

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

U and I A True Story

Nicholson Baker

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

Bleaker House Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

Nell Stevens

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

The Company They Keep C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community

Diana Pavlac Glyer

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

100 Novels That Changed the World

Colin Salter

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

J. K. Rowling A Biography

Connie Ann Kirk

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews

Adam Biles

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

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By the Book Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review

Pamela Paul

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

#11

My Bondage and My Freedom Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism

Frederick Douglass

Themes: Literary Figures • 19th Century • Literary Criticism

#12

William and Dorothy Wordsworth ‘all in Each Other&#8217

Lucy Newlyn

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

#13

The Merry Heart Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books

Robertson Davies

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

#14

The Jane Austen Writers’ Club Inspiration and Advice from the World’s Best-loved Novelist

Rebecca Smith

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

#15

Novelist as a Vocation

Haruki Murakami

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

#16

God the Bestseller How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time

Stephen Prothero

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

#17

A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky The World of Octavia Butler

Lynell George

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Figures

#18

Truthful Pictures Slavery Ordained by God in the Domestic Sentimental Novel of the Nineteenth-century South

Diane N. Capitani

Themes: Writing • 19th Century • Literary Criticism

#19

Where Inspiration Lives Writers, Artists, and Their Creative Places

John Miller

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Criticism

#20

The World According to Joan Didion

Evelyn McDonnell

Themes: Writing • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

#21

The Bughouse The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound

Daniel Swift

Themes: Writing • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

#22

Incognito Street How Travel Made Me a Writer

Barbara Sjoholm

Themes: AUTHORSHIP • Writing • Literary Criticism

#23

The Hunchback of East Hollywood A Biography of Charles Bukowski

Aubrey Malone

Themes: Writing • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

#24

Conversations with Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez

Themes: Writing • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of AUTHORSHIP, Writing, Literary Figures — the same threads that run through Mark Twain by Geoffrey C. Ward. Among the authors featured: Thomas Nelson Baker, Barry Gifford, Frank MacShane, Nicholson Baker, and others.