Subject: Authors, English › Biography

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• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C. S. Lewis (5,600 copies)
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (5,571 copies)
• Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (4,286 copies)
• Going Solo by Roald Dahl (3,819 copies)
• The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (3,338 copies)
• Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (3,239 copies)
• Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry (2,791 copies)
• Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee (2,351 copies)
• Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter (2,338 copies)
• Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain (1,839 copies)
• An Autobiography by Agatha Christie (1,536 copies)
• Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin (1,533 copies)
• Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan (1,219 copies)
• The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe (1,125 copies)
• Two Lives by Vikram Seth (1,101 copies)
• Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold… by Nigel Nicolson (1,094 copies)
• Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes (1,092 copies)
• As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee (1,059 copies)
• A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf (1,059 copies)
• Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell (1,013 copies)
• Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf (971 copies)
• The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley (937 copies)
• C. S. Lewis' Letters to Children by C. S. Lewis (772 copies)
• The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs (743 copies)
• Come, Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie (718 copies)
• J. R. R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earth by Daniel Grotta (717 copies)
• The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter (692 copies)
• Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood (687 copies)
• Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin (640 copies)
• C.S. Lewis Through the Shadowlands by Brian Sibley (638 copies)
• Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose (634 copies)
• Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse (619 copies)
• Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing (598 copies)
• The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham (581 copies)
• C. S. Lewis: A Biography by A. N. Wilson (564 copies)
• Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth (564 copies)
• My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley (530 copies)
• The Quest for Corvo : An Experiment in Biography by A. J. A. Symons (524 copies)
• Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (517 copies)
• Memoirs of a Medieval Woman: The Life and Times of Margery… by Louise Collis (517 copies)
• Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer (500 copies)
• When the Going Was Good by Evelyn Waugh (489 copies)
• The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autobiography by Aleister Crowley (448 copies)
• The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English by Ian Ousby (428 copies)
• The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 16: The… by G. K. Chesterton (424 copies)
• Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning (419 copies)
• Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.… by Adam Sisman (397 copies)
• One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens (373 copies)
• Clinging to the Wreckage by John Mortimer (357 copies)
• Coasting by Jonathan Raban (352 copies)

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