Subject: Novelists, English › 20th century › Biography

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• Hard Times by Charles Dickens (3,927 copies)
• Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (3,016 copies)
• Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry (1,258 copies)
• J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter (1,074 copies)
• Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy… by Neil Gaiman (975 copies)
• Experience by Martin Amis (587 copies)
• Elegy for Iris by John Bayley (557 copies)
• Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell (506 copies)
• Agatha Christie: An Autobiography by Agatha Christie (487 copies)
• Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf (457 copies)
• Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee (412 copies)
• Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood (270 copies)
• A Sort of Life by Graham Greene (231 copies)
• Ways of Escape by Graham Greene (212 copies)
• Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare (211 copies)
• Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum (188 copies)
• Virginia Woolf (Penguin Lives) by Nigel Nicolson (176 copies)
• Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams by Nick Webb (171 copies)
• Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams by M.J. Simpson (167 copies)
• A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym (167 copies)
• Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My… by Doris Lessing (148 copies)
• Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson by Jonathan Coe (139 copies)
• Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America by Jenny Diski (139 copies)
• Daphne Du Maurier by Margaret Forster (138 copies)
• A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham (135 copies)
• The Life of Graham Greene: Volume I: 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry (135 copies)
• Testament of Friendship by Vera Brittain (134 copies)
• The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge (133 copies)
• The Tale of Beatrix Potter by Margaret Lane (129 copies)
• Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing (125 copies)
• Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire by John Bayley (123 copies)
• Patrick O'Brian : A Life Revealed by Dean King (120 copies)
• Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel (119 copies)
• Slide Rule by Nevil Shute (117 copies)
• The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad (113 copies)
• Two Under the Indian Sun by Jon Godden (105 copies)
• The Sport of Queens: The Autobiography of Dick Francis by Dick Francis (102 copies)
• Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived by Penelope Lively (98 copies)
• Memoirs by Kingsley Amis (98 copies)
• Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis (96 copies)
• The Life of Graham Greene: Volume II: 1939-1955 by Norman Sherry (95 copies)
• E. M. Forster: A Life by P. N. Furbank (94 copies)
• Greene on Capri: A Memoir by Shirley Hazzard (93 copies)
• The Letters of Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh (89 copies)
• Iris Murdoch: A Life by Peter J. Conradi (88 copies)
• Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul by Barbara Reynolds (86 copies)
• P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography by Frances Donaldson (86 copies)
• A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf by Jane Dunn (85 copies)
• The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh (81 copies)
• Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography by Jean Rhys (80 copies)

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