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Explore 24 books like Notes to John by Joan Didion — a handpicked selection united by Authors, Short Stories & Anthologies, Arts & Literature, and Essays & Correspondence.

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Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Essays & Correspondence

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Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Essays & Correspondence

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Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Essays & Correspondence

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Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Essays & Correspondence

Some Literary Eccentrics

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Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Essays & Correspondence

Does This Make Me Funny? Essays

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Themes: Short Stories & Anthologies • Arts & Literature • Memoirs

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Themes: Short Stories & Anthologies • Essays & Correspondence • Memoirs

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Themes: Short Stories & Anthologies • Essays & Correspondence • Memoirs

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Dead and Alive Essays

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Themes: Short Stories & Anthologies • Essays & Correspondence • Memoirs

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Changing My Mind

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Themes: Short Stories & Anthologies • Essays & Correspondence • Memoirs

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Themes: Short Stories & Anthologies • Essays & Correspondence • Memoirs

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I Want to Burn This Place Down Essays

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Themes: Short Stories & Anthologies • Essays & Correspondence • Memoirs

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The Real Osamu Dazai A Life in Twenty Stories

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Themes: Authors • Short Stories & Anthologies • Arts & Literature

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A Writer’s Recollections (1919) — Mrs. Humphry Ward

MRS HUMPHRY. WARD

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Essays & Correspondence

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American Patriotic Prose With Notes And Biographies

Augustus W. Long

Themes: Authors • Short Stories & Anthologies • Arts & Literature

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Memoirs Of My Life And Writings

Edward Gibbon

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Essays & Correspondence

#18

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Essays & Correspondence

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The Real Persuasion Portrait of a Real-Life Jane Austen Heroine

Peter James Bowman

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Essays & Correspondence

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The Poetical Works And Memoir Of William Cowper (1899)

William Cowper

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Essays & Correspondence

#21

From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey

Themes: Short Stories & Anthologies • Arts & Literature • Essays & Correspondence

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Selected Letters of John Updike

John Updike

Themes: Short Stories & Anthologies • Arts & Literature • Essays & Correspondence

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The Right Honorable Joseph Addison V6: His Works

Joseph Addison

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Essays & Correspondence

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From Stone Orchard: A collection of memories

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Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Essays & Correspondence

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