Lives of the Poets (and Philosophers)

1

Blumenberg

by Sibylle Lewitscharoff

78 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: thorold, spiphany, JuliaMaria
Explanations: spiphany: Hans Blumenberg

2

The Book of Salt

by Monique Truong

1,342 members

38 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aulsmith, JuliaMaria
Explanations: aulsmith: Gertrude Stein

3

The Master

by Colm Tóibín

3,386 members

95 reviews

3.9

2 Members: spiphany, JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Henry James

4

Lotte in Weimar

by Thomas Mann

896 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: spiphany, JuliaMaria
Explanations: spiphany: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5

Nothing Like the Sun

by Anthony Burgess

745 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thorold, spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: William Shakespeare

6

Königsallee

by Hans Pleschinski

49 members

2 reviews

4

2 Members: spiphany, JuliaMaria
Explanations: spiphany: Thomas Mann

7

Krieg der Sänger

by Robert Löhr

21 members

1 review

4.1

2 Members: thorold, spiphany
Explanations: thorold: Wolfram von Eschenbach, Walther von der Vogelweide, Heinrich von Ofterdingen, et al.

8

Faustinas Küsse.

by Hanns-Josef Ortheil

36 members

1 review

½ 3.4

2 Members: spiphany, JuliaMaria
Explanations: spiphany: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9

The Blue Flower

by Penelope Fitzgerald

2,152 members

62 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thorold, spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Novalis

10

The Book of Lies

by Felice Picano

172 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: The Violet Quills

11

Flush: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

1,666 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Dog's-eye-view of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

12

The Hours

by Michael Cunningham

13,619 members

243 reviews

3.9

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Virginia Woolf

13

Milton in America

by Peter Ackroyd

386 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: How Milton might have got on if he'd emigrated to New England at the Restoration

14

Wife to Mr. Milton

by Robert Graves

304 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Milton the misogynist?

15

The Praise Singer

by Mary Renault

947 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Simonides of Ceos

16

Chatterton

by Peter Ackroyd

940 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thorold

17

Summer in Baden-Baden

by Leonid Tsypkin

707 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Dostojewski

18

The Master of Petersburg: A Novel

by J. M. Coetzee

1,288 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Dostojewski

19

The Lambs of London

by Peter Ackroyd

910 members

39 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Charles & Mary Lamb

20

'Tis Folly to Be Wise

by Lion Feuchtwanger

90 members

4.1

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

21

The Razor's Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham

6,946 members

129 reviews

4.1

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Ludwig Wittgenstein

22

Flaubert's Parrot

by Julian Barnes

4,295 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Flaubert

23

Author, Author

by David Lodge

691 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Henry James

24

Then and Now

by W. Somerset Maugham

565 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Machiavelli

25

Regeneration

by Pat Barker

4,906 members

121 reviews

4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Siegfried Sassoon

26

Samarkand

by Amin Maalouf

1,698 members

36 reviews

4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Omar Khayyam

27

The Postman

by Antonio Skármeta

1,368 members

38 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Pablo Neruda

28

The Magician

by Colm Tóibín

1,260 members

60 reviews

4

Member: spiphany

29

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

by Jerome Lawrence

938 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Henry David Thoreau

30

The Quickening Maze

by Adam Foulds

802 members

36 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: John Clare, Alfred Tennyson

31

No Place on Earth

by Christa Wolf

301 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Heinrich von Kleist

32

Song of a Captive Bird

by Jasmin Darznik

284 members

15 reviews

4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Forugh Farrokhzad

33

The Stalin Epigram

by Robert Littell

261 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Osip Mandelstam

34

The Love Artist

by Jane Alison

249 members

9 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Ovid

35

Shadowlands

by William Nicholson

186 members

1 review

½ 4.4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: C.S. Lewis

36

Grimm's Last Fairytale

by Haydn Middleton

143 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Grimm Brothers

37

Benjamin's Crossing: A Novel

by Jay Parini

133 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Walter Benjamin

38

Fall of Frost: A Novel

by Brian Hall

113 members

4 reviews

3.1

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Robert Frost

39

The Glory of Life

by Michael Kumpfmüller

110 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Franz Kafka

40

God Was Born in Exile

by Vintila Horia

101 members

7 reviews

4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Ovid

41

A View of the Empire at Sunset

by Caryl Phillips

94 members

3 reviews

3.1

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Jean Rhys

42

The Honeymoon

by Dinitia Smith

90 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: George Eliot

43

What's Left of the Night

by Ersi Sotiropoulos

87 members

5 reviews

½ 2.4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Constantine Cavafy

44

Hölderlin. Ein Roman

by Peter Härtling

78 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Friedrich Hölderlin

45

The Devils' Dance

by Hamid Ismailov

75 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Abdulla Qodiriy

46

The Angel of History

by Bruno Arpaia

67 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Walter Benjamin

47

A Cry of Players

by William Gibson

65 members

3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: William Shakespeare

48

Pushkin

by Juri Tynjanov

59 members

4.2

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Alexander Pushkin

49

Die profanen Stunden des Glücks

by Renate Feyl

57 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Sophie La Roche

50

Fräulein Nettes kurzer Sommer

by Karen Duve

56 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Annette von Droste-Hülsoff

51

Konzert ohne Dichter: Roman

by Klaus Modick

56 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Rainer Maria Rilke

52

Palace of Flies

by Walter Kappacher

54 members

3 reviews

4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Hugo von Hofmannsthal

53

Die Welt ist im Kopf

by Christoph Poschenrieder

36 members

1 review

3.8

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Arthur Schopenhauer

54

Sunset

by Klaus Modick

32 members

1 review

3.8

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Lion Feuchtwanger

55

Gogols ansikte

by Kjell Johansson

29 members

1 review

3

Member: spiphany

56

Kafka in Love

by Jacqueline Raoul-Duval

23 members

3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Franz Kafka

57

Verirren oder das plötzliche Schweigen des Robert Walser

by Jürg Amann

20 members

3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Robert Walser

58

Wiesenstein: Roman

by Hans Pleschinski

19 members

½ 3.3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Gerhart Hauptmann

59

Keyserlings Geheimnis

by Klaus Modick

17 members

1 review

4.2

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Eduard von Keyserling

60

King of Odessa

by Robert A. Rosenstone

17 members

1 review

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Isaac Babel

61

Was wir scheinen: Roman

by Hildegard E. Keller

16 members

1 review

4.1

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Hannah Arendt

62

Grimms Morde: Roman

by Tanja Kinkel

14 members

2 reviews

4

Member: spiphany

63

Sturz durch alle Spiegel. Eine Bestandsaufnahme

by Ursula Priess

13 members

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Ingeborg Bachmann, Max Frisch

64

Die ganze Welt ist eine große Geschichte, und wir spielen darin mit: Michael Ende - Roman eines Lebens

by Charlotte Roth

12 members

1 review

3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Michael Ende

65

Der Trost des Nachthimmels

by Dzevad Karahasan

11 members

1 review

3.8

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Omar Khayyam

66

Schwitters: Roman

by Ulrike Draesner

11 members

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Kurt Schwitters

67

Nel chiosco di Pressel

by Hermann Hesse

9 members

2

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Friedrich Hölderlin

68

Schönheit der Verwilderung.

by Henning Boëtius

7 members

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Johann Christian Günther

69

Die dunkle Lady

by Юрий Осипович Домбровский

6 members

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: William Shakespeare

70

Die Begegnung in Weimar

by Louis Fürnberg

5 members

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Adam Mickiewicz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

71

Der unsichtbare Roman

by Christoph Poschenrieder

4 members

1 review

5

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Gustav Meyrink

72

Orangen für Dostojewskij

by Michael Dangl

4 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: spiphany

73

A Mirror for Monkeys

by John Spurling

3 members

1 review

5

Member: spiphany

74

The Paris Wife

by Paula McLain

6,725 members

388 reviews

½ 3.7

75

The Ghost Road

by Pat Barker

3,063 members

63 reviews

4

76

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

by Therese Anne Fowler

2,120 members

93 reviews

3.8

77

The Mandarins

by Simone de Beauvoir

1,951 members

22 reviews

4.1

78

The Crook Factory

by Dan Simmons

485 members

18 reviews

3.8

79

Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath

by Kate Moses

452 members

7 reviews

3.8

80

Mrs Hemingway

by Naomi Wood

422 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

81

The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year

by Jay Parini

418 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

82

West of Sunset

by Stewart O'Nan

414 members

24 reviews

3.8

83

Death at Rottingdean

by Robin Paige

352 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

84

Arctic Summer

by Damon Galgut

317 members

13 reviews

3.9

85

Adios Hemingway

by Leonardo Padura

302 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

86

The Secret History of Costaguana

by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

237 members

8 reviews

½ 3.3

87

The Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York

by Joel Rose

211 members

16 reviews

½ 2.5

88

The Passages of H.M.

by Jay Parini

114 members

4 reviews

3.8

89

Winter

by Christopher Nicholson

112 members

9 reviews

3.9

90

Mother's Boy

by Patrick Gale

102 members

7 reviews

4

91

Leonora in the Morning Light: A Novel

by Michaela Carter

101 members

3 reviews

3.9

92

The Typewriter's Tale

by Michiel Heyns

92 members

6 reviews

2.9

93

They Were Defeated

by Rose Macaulay

83 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

94

Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald

by R. Clifton Spargo

82 members

1 review

½ 3.5

95

Malva roman

by Hagar Peeters

81 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

96

Paper Houses

by Dominique Fortier

57 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

97

Little Fugue: A Novel

by Robert Anderson

39 members

1 review

½ 2.5

98

Pazifik Exil

by Michael Lentz

22 members

½ 4.3

99

De meester de geheime liefde van Charlotte Bronte in het negentiende-eeuwse Brussel : roman

by Jolien Janzing

21 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

100

Das Gelübde

by Kai Meyer

21 members

½ 2.6

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