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Looking for read-alikes for Washington by Walt Whitman? These 24 titles overlap in Essays, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, and American and overall literary texture.

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Risifi’s Daughter A Drama (1886) — Anna Katharine Green

Risifi’s Daughter A Drama (1886)

Anna Katharine Green

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Middle of Everything Memoirs of Motherhood — Michelle Herman

The Middle of Everything Memoirs of Motherhood

Michelle Herman

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Words are My Matter Writings on Life and Books — Ursula K. Le Guin

Words are My Matter Writings on Life and Books

Ursula K. Le Guin

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Quotation Marks — Marjorie B. Garber

Quotation Marks

Marjorie B. Garber

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Writer’s Library The Authors You Love on the Books that Changed Their Lives — Nancy Pearl

The Writer’s Library The Authors You Love on the Books that Changed Their Lives

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The World-Ending Fire The Essential Wendell Berry — Wendell Berry

The World-Ending Fire The Essential Wendell Berry

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Bible According to Mark Twain — Mark Twain

The Bible According to Mark Twain

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Best Minds of My Generation A Literary History of the Beats — Allen Ginsberg

The Best Minds of My Generation A Literary History of the Beats

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Still Writing The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life — Dani Shapiro

Still Writing The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Is It Hot in Here (or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)? — Zach Zimmerman

Is It Hot in Here (or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)?

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Time Come Selected Prose — Linton Kwesi Johnson

Time Come Selected Prose

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Official Cat I. Q. Test Find Out How Smart Your Cat Really Is — Peter Mandel

The Official Cat I. Q. Test Find Out How Smart Your Cat Really Is

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Higher Gossip Essays and Criticism — John Updike

Higher Gossip Essays and Criticism

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Festival Days — Jo Ann Beard

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Socialist Realism — Trisha Low

Socialist Realism

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Questioni Letterarie (1887) — Francesco Colagrosso

Questioni Letterarie (1887)

Francesco Colagrosso

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Styles of Radical Will — Susan Sontag

Styles of Radical Will

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

My Education A Book of Dreams — William S. Burroughs

My Education A Book of Dreams

William S. Burroughs

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Point to Point Navigation A Memoir 1964 to 2006 — Gore Vidal

Point to Point Navigation A Memoir 1964 to 2006

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Japanese Poetry The Uta (1919) — Arthur Waley

Japanese Poetry The Uta (1919)

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Woman of Rome A Life of Elsa Morante — Lily Tuck

Woman of Rome A Life of Elsa Morante

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Opportunity Reader Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League’s Opportunity Magazine — Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson

The Opportunity Reader Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League’s Opportunity Magazine

Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Dialogue with a Somnambulist Stories, Essays & A Portrait Gallery — Chloe Aridjis

Dialogue with a Somnambulist Stories, Essays & A Portrait Gallery

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Silence and Power A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes — Mary Lynn Broe

Silence and Power A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes

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 Washington by Walt Whitman. Among the authors featured: Anna Katharine Green, Michelle Herman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marjorie B. Garber, and others.

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