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24 books recommended for fans of The Body by Bill Buford, tied together by themes of Essays, Literary Criticism, and Literary Collections.

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Selected Dialogues — Lucian

Selected Dialogues

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Abominations Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-destruction — Lionel Shriver

Abominations Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-destruction

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Author’s Craft With an Essay From Arnold Bennett By F. J. Harvey Darton — Arnold Bennett

The Author’s Craft With an Essay From Arnold Bennett By F. J. Harvey Darton

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Running in Literature A Guide for Scholars, Readers, Runners, Joggers, and Dreamers — Roger Robinson

Running in Literature A Guide for Scholars, Readers, Runners, Joggers, and Dreamers

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Kokoro — Lafcadio Hearn

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Satyricon — Petronius Arbiter

Petronius Arbiter

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

BDQ Essays and Interviews on Quebec Comics — Andy Brown

BDQ Essays and Interviews on Quebec Comics

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Godless in Eden A Book of Essays — Fay Weldon

Godless in Eden A Book of Essays

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her — Melanie Rehak

Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Reading the Mountains of Home — John Elder

Reading the Mountains of Home

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Double Stitch Black Women Write about Mothers & Daughters — Patricia Bell-Scott

Double Stitch Black Women Write about Mothers & Daughters

Patricia Bell-Scott

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Walden — Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 1 Short Philosophical Essays — Arthur Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 1 Short Philosophical Essays

Arthur Schopenhauer

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road — Sara Spurgeon

Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Nobody Knows My Name — James Baldwin

Nobody Knows My Name

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Orphan Factory Essays and Memoirs — Charles Simic

Orphan Factory Essays and Memoirs

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Unpacking My Library — Walter Benjamin

Unpacking My Library

Walter Benjamin

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry An Intimacy Triptych — Nina Boutsikaris

I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry An Intimacy Triptych

Nina Boutsikaris

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Granta The Magazine Of New Writing — Thomas Meaney

Granta The Magazine Of New Writing

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Magna Carta Text and Commentary — A. E. Dick Howard

Magna Carta Text and Commentary

A. E. Dick Howard

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

A Stay Against Confusion Essays on Faith and Fiction — Ron Hansen

A Stay Against Confusion Essays on Faith and Fiction

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Trick Mirror Reflections on Self-Delusion — Jia Tolentino

Trick Mirror Reflections on Self-Delusion

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Blue Guide to Indiana — Michael Martone

The Blue Guide to Indiana

Michael Martone

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Story Land Dramatic Reader (1916) — Catherine Turner Bryce

Story Land Dramatic Reader (1916)

Catherine Turner Bryce

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Essays, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections — the same threads that run through The Body by Bill Buford. Among the authors featured: Lucian, Lionel Shriver, Arnold Bennett, Roger Robinson, and others.

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