Guardian Essential LibraryBiography
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10 Works 22,494 Books 339 Reviews 3.9
Clear your shelves of dog-eared airport novels, forgettable potboilers and half-read works of non-fiction.
We asked eminent writers to choose 10 books from their respective fields to make up a show more capsule library of indispensable volumes. The only rules were that the books had to be in print and readily available in the UK.
From art to science via fiction and memoir, these are their selections for the Guardian's Essential Library of 100 vital books. Collect them, then read them...
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Brief Lives (1898) by John Aubrey |
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) by James Boswell |
Henry James: A Life (1985) by Leon Edel |
The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) by Elizabeth Gaskell |
Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) by Andrew Hodges |
Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (1993) by Richard Holmes |
Eminent Victorians (1918) by Lytton Strachey |
The Quest for Corvo : An Experiment in Biography (1934) by A. J. A. Symons |
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (1990) by Claire Tomalin |
Orlando: A Biography (1928) by Virginia Woolf |
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