Subject: Novelists, English 20th century

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Hard Times by Charles Dickens (10,557 copies)
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (7,472 copies)
Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry (2,970 copies)
Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter (2,621 copies)
Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy… by Neil Gaiman (2,164 copies)
An Autobiography by Agatha Christie (1,773 copies)
A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf (1,193 copies)
Experience by Martin Amis (1,182 copies)
Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley (1,114 copies)
Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell (1,102 copies)
Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf (1,078 copies)
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee (913 copies)
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood (758 copies)
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 1, 1915-1919 by Virginia Woolf (732 copies)
Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir by Hilary Mantel (679 copies)
A Sort of Life by Graham Greene (636 copies)
Ways of Escape by Graham Greene (579 copies)
Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography by P. D. James (484 copies)
Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum (466 copies)
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare (449 copies)
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 2, 1920-1924 by Virginia Woolf (427 copies)
A Prison Diary - Volume 1: Hell by Jeffrey Archer (414 copies)
Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams by Nick Webb (414 copies)
A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters by Barbara Pym (380 copies)
Virginia Woolf by Nigel Nicolson (380 copies)
The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography by Margaret Lane (379 copies)
A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham (374 copies)
The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge (369 copies)
Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis (365 copies)
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 3, 1925-1930 by Virginia Woolf (364 copies)
Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned… by Margaret Forster (359 copies)
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography,… by Doris Lessing (351 copies)
J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship by Colin Duriez (349 copies)
Slide Rule by Nevil Shute (342 copies)
Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing (323 copies)
Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams by M.J. Simpson (315 copies)
Two Under the Indian Sun by Jon Godden (311 copies)
Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America… by Jenny Diski (311 copies)
Testament of Friendship by Vera Brittain (307 copies)
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume I: 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry (307 copies)
The Letters of Virginia Woolf : Volume 1, 1888-1912 by Virginia Woolf (300 copies)
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 4, 1931-1935 by Virginia Woolf (293 copies)
The Letters of Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh (293 copies)
The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad (288 copies)
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 5, 1936-1941 by Virginia Woolf (274 copies)
Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami (273 copies)
Far Away and Long Ago by W. H. Hudson (267 copies)
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh by Charlotte Mosley (264 copies)
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh (262 copies)
Patrick O'Brian : A Life Revealed by Dean King (254 copies)
Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire by John Bayley (246 copies)
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography by Jean Rhys (242 copies)
Flying to nowhere by John Fuller (241 copies)
Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul by Barbara Reynolds (239 copies)
Iris Murdoch: A Life by Peter J. Conradi (239 copies)
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson by Jonathan Coe (238 copies)
Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived by Penelope Lively (236 copies)
The Sport of Queens: The Autobiography of Dick Francis by Dick Francis (231 copies)
Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard (230 copies)
A Prison Diary - Volume 3: Heaven by Jeffrey Archer (226 copies)
Memoirs by Kingsley Amis (226 copies)
In Search of a Character: Two African Journals by Graham Greene (224 copies)
A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively (219 copies)
Maiden Voyage by Denton Welch (217 copies)
A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep by Rumer Godden (205 copies)
P.G. Wodehouse: A Biography by Frances Donaldson (203 copies)
Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer by Daphne du Maurier (200 copies)
A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf by Jane Dunn (200 copies)
Ian Fleming by Andrew Lycett (199 copies)
Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life by Lyndall Gordon (194 copies)
The Hill of Devi by E. M. Forster (191 copies)
Sleep Has His House (Peter Owen Modern Classic) by Anna Kavan (190 copies)
E. M. Forster: A Life by P. N. Furbank (188 copies)
Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her… by Louise A. DeSalvo (187 copies)
Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford by Charlotte Mosley (184 copies)
The Invisible Writing: The Second Volume of an… by Arthur Koestler (184 copies)
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume II: 1939-1955 by Norman Sherry (182 copies)
Rebecca West: A Life by Victoria Glendinning (180 copies)
Nancy Mitford by Harold Acton (168 copies)
Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909 by Virginia Woolf (166 copies)
Blue Remembered Hills by Rosemary Sutcliff (164 copies)
Arrow in the Blue: The First Volume of an Autobiography,… by Arthur Koestler (163 copies)
Mary Renault: A Biography by David Sweetman (162 copies)
The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie by Charles Osborne (162 copies)
Violet to Vita : The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita… by Violet Trefusis (159 copies)
Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait by Henry Green (157 copies)
A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary by Virginia Woolf (148 copies)
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume III: 1956-1991 by Norman Sherry (147 copies)
Will This Do? by Auberon Waugh (147 copies)
Recollections of Virginia Woolf by Joan Russell Noble (145 copies)
Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England by Paul Watkins (143 copies)
A House with Four Rooms by Rumer Godden (143 copies)
The Letters of Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis (142 copies)
A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym by Hazel Holt (140 copies)
Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of… by H. G. Wells (139 copies)
Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy Schoenberger (137 copies)
Three Houses by Angela Thirkell (136 copies)
Elizabeth Bowen by Victoria Glendinning (132 copies)
Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 1903-1939 by Martin Stannard (131 copies)
The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories by Daphne du Maurier (128 copies)
Jean Rhys: Letters 1931-1966 (Penguin Twentieth-Century… by Jean Rhys (116 copies)
An Egyptian Journal by William Golding (116 copies)
Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters Of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf (115 copies)
A marriage of true minds: An intimate portrait of Leonard… by George Spater (114 copies)
Graham Greene: The Enemy Within by Michael Shelden (110 copies)
The Joy of the Snow by Elizabeth Goudge (108 copies)
Virginia Woolf and Her World by John Lehmann (103 copies)
A World of My Own by Graham Greene (102 copies)
Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her by A. N. Wilson (101 copies)
The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader (100 copies)
To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell by Anthony Powell (100 copies)
Isherwood: A Life Revealed by Peter Parker (99 copies)
Virginia Woolf A to Z by Mark Hussey (97 copies)
H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life by Anthony West (96 copies)
Granite and Rainbow by Mitchell Leaska (95 copies)
Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days by Jared Cade (94 copies)
Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life by Anne Chisholm (89 copies)
Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist by Nikolai Tolstoy (89 copies)
Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett by Hilary Spurling (86 copies)
Virginia Woolf by Mary Ann Caws (85 copies)
The Swan in the Evening: Fragments of an Inner Life by Rosamond Lehmann (84 copies)
Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf by Phyllis Rose (83 copies)
Yours etc.: Letters to the Press 1945-89 by Graham Greene (82 copies)
Travels with Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf (81 copies)
Family Memories by Rebecca West (80 copies)
E. M. Forster: A Biography by Nicola Beauman (80 copies)
Lights on at Signpost by George MacDonald Fraser (79 copies)
Anthony Powell: A Life by Michael Barber (78 copies)
H.G.: The History of Mr Wells by Michael Foot (78 copies)
E.M. Forster by Francis Henry King (75 copies)
Infants of the Spring: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell by Anthony Powell (74 copies)
The Last Englishman: The Life of J. L. Carr by Byron Rogers (74 copies)
Jean Rhys by Carole Angier (73 copies)
Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives : A Biography by Frederick Robert Karl (73 copies)
H. G. Wells: A Biography by Norman MacKenzie (70 copies)
Faces in My Time: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell by Anthony Powell (65 copies)
The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells by Michael Coren (65 copies)
Journey to Kars by Philip Glazebrook (64 copies)
Messengers of Day: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell by Anthony Powell (64 copies)
The Quest for Graham Greene by W. J. West (64 copies)
Home Life by Alice Thomas Ellis (63 copies)
Paul Scott: A Life of the Author of the Raj Quartet by Hilary Spurling (62 copies)
Rebecca West: A Life by Carl Rollyson (60 copies)
Paper Darts: The Letters of Virginia Woolf (The illustrated… by Virginia Woolf (60 copies)
Jeffrey Archer: Stranger Than Fiction by Michael Crick (59 copies)
First Childhood by Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Baron Berners (56 copies)
The Strangers Are All Gone: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell by Anthony Powell (56 copies)
Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric by Mark Amory (55 copies)
The Day Gone By by Richard Adams (55 copies)
Particularly Cats ... And Rufus by Doris Lessing (54 copies)
Ford Madox Ford by Alan Judd (53 copies)
The Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoirs by Bryher (53 copies)
The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman by Brian W. Aldiss (53 copies)
The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley by Diana Petre (52 copies)
The Life of E. F. Benson by Brian Masters (51 copies)
Too Late to Turn Back by Barbara Greene (51 copies)
H.G. Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in… by H. G. Wells (50 copies)
Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green by Jeremy Treglown (50 copies)
A Distant Prospect by Lord Berners (49 copies)
As Once in May by Antonia White (48 copies)
The Hound and the Falcon: The Story of a Reconversion to… by Antonia White (48 copies)
John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds by Eileen Warburton (48 copies)
A Life Drawing: Autobiography of Shirley Hughes by Shirley Hughes (47 copies)
Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf by Panthea Reid (47 copies)
H. G. Wells and Rebecca West by Gordon Norton Ray (46 copies)
The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters by Paul Fussell (45 copies)
Antonia White: Diaries (Vol. 1, 1926-1957) by Antonia White (43 copies)
The Attempted Rescue by Robert Aickman (42 copies)
The Third Woman by William Cash (42 copies)
Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography by Jocelyn Baines (42 copies)
The World of Agatha Christie: The Facts and Fiction Behind… by Martin Fido (40 copies)
Mrs. Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian by John Sutherland (39 copies)
Tales of Innocence and Experience: An Exploration by Eva Figes (38 copies)
Letters to a Friend, 1950-1952 by Rose Macaulay (37 copies)
Master of Villainy: A Biography of Sax Rohmer by Cay Van Ash (35 copies)
Selected letters of Malcolm Lowry by Malcolm Lowry (34 copies)
In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography by Nina Bawden (34 copies)
Escape from the Shadows by Robin Maugham (32 copies)
Shadow Lovers: The Last Affairs Of H. G. Wells by Andrea Lynn (31 copies)
Conrad and His World by Norman Sherry (31 copies)
Girlitude: A Portrait of the 50s and 60s by Emma Tennant (31 copies)
The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf's Last Years by Herbert Marder (30 copies)
The days of Mars;: A memoir, 1940-1946, by Bryher (29 copies)
Ronald Firbank; a biography by Miriam J. Benkovitz (28 copies)
Journals 1987-1989 by Anthony Powell (28 copies)
Virginia Woolf for Beginners by Aaron Rosenblatt (27 copies)
Private World of Daphne Du Maurier by Martyn Shallcross (27 copies)
Virginia Woolf and Her Works by Jean Guiguet (26 copies)
The Captain: The Life and Times of Simon Raven by Michael Barber (24 copies)
Writers Revealed by Rosemary Hartill (24 copies)
Last Letters to a Friend, 1952-1958 by Rose Macaulay (24 copies)
Long Before Forty by C. S. Forester (24 copies)
Prancing Novelist: In Praise of Ronald Firbank by Brigid Brophy (23 copies)
Joseph Conrad by Leo Gurko (23 copies)
The Magic of My Youth by Arthur Calder-Marshall (22 copies)
Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress (Personal Takes) by Nina Auerbach (21 copies)
Two Flamboyant Fathers by Nicolette Devas (21 copies)
Little Eden: A Child at War by Eva Figes (21 copies)
Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville… by Susan J. Leonardi (21 copies)
A Dog's Life by Paul Bailey (20 copies)
Literary Agents: The Novelist As Spy by Anthony Masters (20 copies)
Conversations with Graham Greene by Graham Greene (20 copies)
In Search of a Beginning: My Life with Graham Greene by Yvonne Cloetta (19 copies)
Deadlier than the male: Why are respectable English women… by Jessica Mann (19 copies)
Neil Gaiman (The Library of Graphic Novelists) by Steven P. Olson (19 copies)
The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad by Jerry Allen (18 copies)
William Gerhardie: A Biography by Dido Davies (18 copies)
The Masks of Mary Renault: A Literary Biography by Caroline Zilboorg (17 copies)
Letters to a sister by Rose Macaulay (17 copies)
Stranger and Brother: A Portrait of C. P. Snow by Philip Snow (17 copies)
E.M.Forster: The Growth of the Novelist, 1879-1914 v. 1: A… by P. N. Furbank (16 copies)
Memoirs of a Private Man by Winston Graham (16 copies)
Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Memoir by Cicely Greig (15 copies)
Life is a four-letter word by Nicholas Monsarrat (15 copies)
The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett. by Elizabeth Sprigge (14 copies)
Koestler by Iain Hamilton (14 copies)
Conrad the Novelist by Albert J. Guérard (14 copies)
Facts and Fictions by Ann Bridge (14 copies)
Dorothy Richardson: A Biography by Gloria G. Fromm (13 copies)
The Fatal Art of Entertainment: Interviews With Mystery… by Rosemary Herbert (13 copies)
Joseph Conrad by Roger Tennant (13 copies)
Seeking Catherine Cookson's "Da" by Kathleen Jones (12 copies)
Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery… by Richard Martin (11 copies)
Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography by Anne M. Wyatt-Brown (10 copies)
EM Forster A Life. VOLUME TWO : POLYCRATE'S RING 1914 -… by P. N. Furbank (10 copies)
Roman Fountain by Hugh Walpole (9 copies)
Africa of the heart : a personal journey by Joseph Hone (8 copies)
Figures in the Foreground by Frank Swinnerton (7 copies)
Virginia Woolf by Carl Woodring (7 copies)
Joseph Conrad by J. I. M. Stewart (7 copies)
Elusion Aforethought: The Life and Writing of Anthony… by Malcolm J. Turnbull (7 copies)
Conrad's Eastern world by Norman Sherry (6 copies)
Twentieth Century Romance And Gothic Writers by James Vinson (5 copies)
Conrad and the Reporters by Christopher Morley (5 copies)
Designs of darkness : interviews with detective novelists by Diana Cooper-Clark (4 copies)
Graham Greene by John Atkins (3 copies)
Away to the woods by Lena Kennedy (3 copies)
Dark horses : an experience of literary journalism by Karl Miller (2 copies)
My writing life by Neil Bell (2 copies)
The Life and Thought of H. G. Wells by J. Kagarlitski (2 copies)
English novel, Conrad to Woolf by Frank Northen Magill (2 copies)
John Galsworthy by David Holloway (2 copies)
Footslogger An Autobiography by Graham Seton Hutchison (2 copies)
The Catherine Cookson Companion by Cliff Goodwin (2 copies)
John Galsworthy : a reassessment by Alec Fréchet (1 copies)
Under Polish eyes by J. H. Retinger (1 copies)