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Books like Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)

Across COLLECTED WORKS (single author, multi-form) — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Johnson.

COLLECTED WORKS (single author, multi-form)

Top related books to Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious in Prose and Verse with All the Original Illustrations Part Ten

Thomas Hood

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Beyond Eroticism: A Historian’s Reading of Humor in Feng Menglong’s Child’s Folly

Pi-Ching Hsu

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Tangled Sheets

Michael Thomas Ford

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The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Part 15

Charles Dudley Warner

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Raven

Edgar Allan Poe

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The Posthumous Papers of a Living Author (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

Robert Musil

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The Portable Dorothy Parker (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Dorothy Parker

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The Portable Edmund Burke (Portable Library)

Edmund Burke

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The Time of Our Time

Norman Mailer

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#10

The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious in Prose and Verse with All the Original Illustrations Part Nine

Thomas Hood

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#11

The Necessary Shakespeare, 2nd Edition

William Shakespeare

Themes: COLLECTED WORKS (single author, multi-form)

#12

The Sword of Zagan and Other Writings

Clark Ashton Smith

Themes: COLLECTED WORKS (single author, multi-form)

#13

The Attic Nights

Aulus Gellius

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#14

Yann Andrea Steiner

Marguerite Duras

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#15

Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Volume III, Books 14-20 (Loeb Classical Library No. 212)

Gellius

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#16

Paul Metcalf, collected Works, in three volumes, vol. 1 1956-1976, vol. 2 1976-1986, vol. 3 1987-1997

Paul Metcalf

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#17

The Plot Thickens 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life

Noah Lukeman

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#18

The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems (Penguin Classics) — Kalidasa

Kālidāsa

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#20

Celebration of Love A Collection of Favourite Prose and Poetry — Mary O’Hara

Mary O'Hara

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#21

The Collected Works The club of queer trades ; The Napoleon of Notting Hill ; The ball and the cross together with ; The man who was Thursday. Volume 6

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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#22

The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings

William Gaddis

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#23

John Donne: Verse and Prose (The Golden Age Of Spiritual Writing)

John Donne

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#24

The Story of Our Lives, with the Monument and the Late Hour

Mark Strand

Themes: COLLECTED WORKS (single author, multi-form)

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of COLLECTED WORKS (single author, multi-form) — the same threads that run through Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Johnson. Among the authors featured: Thomas Hood, Pi-Ching Hsu, Michael Thomas Ford, Charles Dudley Warner, and others.