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24 titles for readers of Smile Please by Jean Rhys, selected for shared themes: Literary Figures, Women Authors, Literary Criticism, and American.

Literary Figures Women Authors Literary Criticism American Personal Memoirs Biography & Autobiography

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Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Smile Please.

The Distance Between Us A Memoir

Reyna Grande

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

When We Were the Kennedys A Memoir from Mexico, Maine

Monica Wood

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

The Chicken Chronicles A Memoir

Alice Walker

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

In the Land of Men A Memoir

Adrienne Miller

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Surrendering Oz

Bonnie Friedman

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Woman of Rome A Life of Elsa Morante

Lily Tuck

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Weightless Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

Evette Dionne

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

The Shame of Losing

Sarah Cannon

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her

Melanie Rehak

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

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Fruit Punch A Memoir

Kendra Allen

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

#11

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 1973-1982

Joyce Carol Oates

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

#12

Weird But Normal Essays

Mia Mercado

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

#13

The Republic of Imagination A Life in Books

Azar Nafisi

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

#14

Bird Cloud A Memoir of Place

Annie Proulx

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

#15

Wallace Stevens and Francis Parkman The American West and Beyond

Michael George Ryan

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

#16

Oleander, Jacaranda A Childhood Perceived

Penelope Lively

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

#17

A Coastline is an Immeasurable Thing A Memoir Across Three Continents

Mary-Alice Daniel

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • American

#18

Bomb Shelter Love, Time, and Other Explosives

Mary Laura Philpott

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

#19

A Literate Passion Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953

Anaïs Nin

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

#20

An Accidental Autobiography

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

#21

Sharp The Women who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Michelle Dean

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

#22

Skirting Traditions Arizona Women Writers and Journalists, 1912-2012

Arizona Press Women

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

#23

Yesterday Morning A Very English Childhood

Diana Athill

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

#24

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Daniel Mark Epstein

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Literary Figures, Women Authors, Literary Criticism — the same threads that run through Smile Please by Jean Rhys. Among the authors featured: Reyna Grande, Monica Wood, Alice Walker, Adrienne Miller, and others.