Subject: Authors, English › 20th century › Biography

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• The Iliad by Homer (13,408 copies)
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (2,337 copies)
• Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (2,335 copies)
• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C. S. Lewis (2,213 copies)
• Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl (2,010 copies)
• Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (1,327 copies)
• Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry (1,259 copies)
• Going Solo by Roald Dahl (1,158 copies)
• The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien by J. R. R. Tolkien (1,116 copies)
• J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter (1,076 copies)
• Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee (942 copies)
• Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain (621 copies)
• Two Lives by Vikram Seth (590 copies)
• Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold… by Nigel Nicolson (516 copies)
• Agatha Christie: An Autobiography by Agatha Christie (486 copies)
• Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf (458 copies)
• As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee (377 copies)
• The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley (372 copies)
• J. R. R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earth by Daniel Grotta (344 copies)
• The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter (306 copies)
• Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin (278 copies)
• C. S. Lewis' Letters to Children (C.S. Lewis Classics) by C. S. Lewis (275 copies)
• Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood (272 copies)
• Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing (266 copies)
• The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs (265 copies)
• Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse (264 copies)
• The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham (251 copies)
• Dear Me by Peter Ustinov (241 copies)
• C. S. Lewis: A Biography by A. N. Wilson (239 copies)
• C.S. Lewis Through the Shadowlands by Brian Sibley (235 copies)
• A Sort of Life by Graham Greene (231 copies)
• Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis by George Sayer (226 copies)
• Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth (220 copies)
• Ways of Escape by Graham Greene (212 copies)
• Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare (211 copies)
• Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning (204 copies)
• Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian… by Linda Lear (189 copies)
• Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum (188 copies)
• Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess (187 copies)
• When the Going Was Good by Evelyn Waugh (185 copies)
• Clinging to the Wreckage by John Mortimer (180 copies)
• Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin (175 copies)
• The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton (172 copies)
• Letters of C. S. Lewis by C. S. Lewis (170 copies)
• Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams by M.J. Simpson (168 copies)
• The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton by G. K. Chesterton (166 copies)
• My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley (164 copies)
• One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens (163 copies)
• Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer (161 copies)
• J. K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter by Marc Shapiro (152 copies)

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