Les confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1790 ★ 4.4

John Barleycorn

Jack London

1913 ★ 4.8

At the Existentialist Café

Sarah Bakewell

2016 ★ 4.0

Life among the savages

Lesa Lockford, Shirley Jackson

1953 ★ 4.2

Limonov

Emmanuel Carrère

2011 ★ 4.2

El mundo amarillo

Albert Espinosa

2012

The pact

Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, George Jenkins et al.

2002

Prairie fires

Caroline Fraser

2017

The exegesis of Philip K. Dick

Pamela Jackson, Philip K. Dick, Fred Stella et al.

2012

Letters to Véra

Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd, Olga Voronina

2015

The autobiography of a super-tramp

W. H. Davies

1908

A Slip of the Keyboard

Terry Pratchett

2014

A Q zheng zhuan

Lu Xun, David Pollard

1999

Every love story is a ghost story

D. T. Max

2012 ★ 3.5

A house full of daughters

Juliet Nicolson

2016

Charlotte Brontë

Claire Harman

2015

Mockingbird

Charles J. Shields

2006

South and west

Nathaniel Rich, Joan Didion

2021 ★ 4.0

Mean

Myriam Gurba

2017

The lives of Danielle Steel

Vickie L. Bane, Stephen Vincent Benét

1994

Romantic outlaws

Charlotte Gordon

2015

A life discarded

Alexander Masters

2016

In the house of the interpreter

Josefina Caball, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo

2012

The boy kings of Texas

Domingo Martinez

2012

Arthur Conan Doyle

Jon Lellenberg, Charles Foley, Daniel Stashower et al.

2004

The Hermit in Paris

Martin McLaughlin, Italo Calvino

2003

Jane Austen at home

Lucy Worsley

2017

The noble hustle

Colson Whitehead

2014

I'll tell you in person

Chloé Caldwell

2016

The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

Philip Zaleski

2015