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24 titles for readers of Selected Essays by Virginia Woolf, selected for shared themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Short Stories (single author), LGBTQ, and Essays.

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The Moment, and Other Essays

Virginia Woolf

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Short Stories (single author) • Essays

Poems and Prose

Christina Rossetti

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Short Stories (single author) • Essays

Unto This Last and Other Writings

John Ruskin

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Short Stories (single author) • Essays

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

John Irving

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Short Stories (single author) • Essays

The Atlas of Middle-earth

Karen Wynn Fonstad

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Short Stories (single author) • Essays

De Profundis and Other Writings

Oscar Wilde

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Short Stories (single author) • Essays

Seeing Things as They are Selected Journalism and Other Writings

George Orwell

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • LGBTQ • Essays

Spirits of the Stair Selected Aphorisms

Peter Robinson

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • LGBTQ • Essays

An Apology for Idlers

Robert Louis Stevenson

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • LGBTQ • Essays

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Oscariana Epigrams — Oscar. Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • LGBTQ • Essays

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Selected Journalism 1850-1870

Charles Dickens

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

#12

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

Brian P. Copenhaver

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

#13

Classic Irish Short Stories — Frank O’Connor

Frank O'Connor

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Short Stories (single author) • European

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Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories

Enda Duffy

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

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Facing Unpleasant Facts Narrative Essays

George Orwell

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

#16

Selected Prose

John Donne

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

#17

Down These Green Streets Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century

Declan Burke

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

#18

The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories

Margaret Reynolds

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • LGBTQ • European

#19

Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth

William Yeats

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

#20

The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories

Honoré de Balzac

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Short Stories (single author) • European

#21

Relations An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices

Ayesha Harruna Attah

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Short Stories (single author) • European

#22

Feeding Frenzy

Will Self

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

#23

The Táin

Thomas Kinsella

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

#24

Life At Grasmere

Dorothy Wordsworth

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Short Stories (single author), LGBTQ — the same threads that run through Selected Essays by Virginia Woolf. Among the authors featured: Virginia Woolf, Christina Rossetti, John Ruskin, John Irving, and others.