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If you loved Two Lives by Vikram Seth, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Authors, Short Stories & Anthologies, Arts & Literature, and Short Stories.

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The Real Osamu Dazai A Life in Twenty Stories — Osamu Dazai

The Real Osamu Dazai A Life in Twenty Stories

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

American Patriotic Prose With Notes And Biographies — Augustus W. Long

American Patriotic Prose With Notes And Biographies

Augustus W. Long

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

Notes to John — Joan Didion

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

The Writing Life — Annie Dillard

The Writing Life

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

I And My Chimney — Herman Melville

I And My Chimney

Herman Melville

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

Tales from the Pit A Series of Short Stories about Playing in Orchestra Pits — Peter W. Neville

Tales from the Pit A Series of Short Stories about Playing in Orchestra Pits

Peter W. Neville

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

James Baldwin The Life Album — Magdalena J. Zaborowska

James Baldwin The Life Album

Magdalena J. Zaborowska

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

The Life Of St. Juliana Of Cornillon (1873) — George Ambrose Bradbury

The Life Of St. Juliana Of Cornillon (1873)

George Ambrose Bradbury

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend — Rebecca Romney

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

The Diaries of Franz Kafka — Franz Kafka

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

The Private Life Of Galileo: Compiled Principally From His Correspondence And That Of His Eldest Daughter, Maria Celeste (1870) — Galileo Galilei

The Private Life Of Galileo: Compiled Principally From His Correspondence And That Of His Eldest Daughter, Maria Celeste (1870)

Galileo Galilei

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

The Life Of Louis Claude de St. Martin — Arthur Edward Waite

The Life Of Louis Claude de St. Martin

Arthur Edward Waite

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

From Stone Orchard: A collection of memories — Timothy Findley

From Stone Orchard: A collection of memories

Timothy Findley

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

Beckett biographie traduite de l’anglais par Oristelle Bonis — James Knowlson

Beckett biographie traduite de l’anglais par Oristelle Bonis

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

Selected Poems — Michael Rosen

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

Cooler Than Cool The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard — C. M. Kushins

Cooler Than Cool The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

The Writer’s Table: Famous authors and their favourite recipes — Valerie Stivers

The Writer’s Table: Famous authors and their favourite recipes

Valerie Stivers

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

A Man for All Seasons — Robert Bolt

A Man for All Seasons

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

This Life And The Next: The Effect On This Life Of Faith In Another (1918) — Peter Taylor Forsyth

This Life And The Next: The Effect On This Life Of Faith In Another (1918)

Peter Taylor Forsyth

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

The Autobiography Of David Jones: With An Exposition Of Medical Politics And Sidelights On The Medical Profession (1907) — David A. Jones

The Autobiography Of David Jones: With An Exposition Of Medical Politics And Sidelights On The Medical Profession (1907)

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs Of My Life And Writings — Edward Gibbon

Memoirs Of My Life And Writings

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

Autobiography Of William G. Schauffler: For Forty-Nine Years A Missionary In The Orient (1887) — William Gottlieb Schauffler

Autobiography Of William G. Schauffler: For Forty-Nine Years A Missionary In The Orient (1887)

William Gottlieb Schauffler

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

Lights And Shades Of The East: Or A Study Of The Life Of Baboo Harrischander (1863) — Framji Bomanji

Lights And Shades Of The East: Or A Study Of The Life Of Baboo Harrischander (1863)

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

The Right Honorable Joseph Addison V6: His Works — Joseph Addison

The Right Honorable Joseph Addison V6: His Works

Themes: Authors • Arts & Literature • Biographies & Memoirs

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Two Lives by Vikram Seth — spanning Authors, Short Stories & Anthologies, Arts & Literature and featuring authors such as Osamu Dazai, Augustus W. Long, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, and others.

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