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Theme: Literary History
1) A Fable for Critics by James Russell Lowell
2) The Reason for the Darkness of the Night by John Tresch
3) A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak
4) Shakespeare's Sisters by Sandra Gilbert
5) At Home with the Marquis De Sade by Francine du Plessix Gray
6) Blake: A Biography by Peter Ackroyd
7) Born to Be Posthumous by Mark Dery and The World of Edward Gorey by Clifford Ross
8) Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray and The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas
9) Burning Boy by Paul Auster
10) The Shadow of Vesuvius by Daisy Dunn
11) The Wordhord by Hanna Videen and Strange Vernaculars by Janet Sorensen
12) Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes
13) Contested Will by James Shapiro
14) Daniel Defoe by Richard West
15) Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran
16) Dinner with Joseph Johnson by Daisy Hay
17) Eden Renewed by Peter Levi
18) Hawthorne in Concord by Philip Mcfarland
19) In Byron's Wake by Miranda Seymour
20) Vindication by Lyndall Gordon
21) Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch
22) Wide as the Waters by Benson Bobrick
23) L.E.L. by Lucasta Miller
24) The Book-Makers by Adam Smyth
25) Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom by Roger Pearson and Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
26) Magnificent Rebels by Andrea Wulf
27) Malory by Christina Hardyment
28) Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot by Anna Beer
29) Mistress Bradstreet by Charlotte Gordon
30) My Wars Are Laid Away in Books by Alfred Habegger
31) The Trials of Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland and The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland
32) Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
33) Oscar Wilde: A Life by Matthew Sturgis
34) Out of the Flames by Lawrence Goldstone
35) Pirating and Publishing by Robert Darnton
36) Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton by Nicholas McDowell
37) Stendhal by Jonathan Keates
38) The Death and Life of Miguel de Cervantes by Milton Lesser
39) Tennyson by John Batchelor
40) Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese and Juliet by Sophie Duncan
41) Wilde's Women Eleanor Fitzsimons
42) The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
43) Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
44) The Fall of the House of Byron by Emily Brand
45) The Kindness of Sisters by David Crane
46) Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler and Narrative of Lord Byron’s Last Journey to Greece
47) The Making of the Poets by Ian Gilmore
48) The Man Who Understood Democracy by Olivier Zunz
49) The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein by Dorothy Hoobler and In Search of Frankenstein by Radu Florescu
50) The Peabody Sisters by Louise Hall Tharp
Bonus Reads:
Ladies of the Grand Tour by Brian Dolan
The Life of Voltaire by S.G. Tallentyre
In Search of the Pied Piper by Radu Florescu
Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty Lucien Jaume
Andre & Oscar by Jonathan Fryer
*A Literary Tour de France
*A Wilder Shore by Camille Peri
*Burning the Books Richard Ovenden
*Chaucer by Marion Turner
*Inky Fingers by Anthony Grafton
*Mad Woman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert
*The Bookshop of the World by Andrew Pettegree
*The Brontes: Wild Genius on the Moors by Juliet Barker
*The English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey by Robert Morrison
*The Madman's Library by Edward Brooke-Hitching
*The Wildes by Louis Bayard
*Vergil: The Poet's Life by Sarah Ruden
*White Heat by Brenda Wineapple
*Washington Irving: An American Original by Brian Jay Jones
*Making the Monster Kathryn Harkup
*Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
*Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution Ian Duncan
1) A Fable for Critics by James Russell Lowell
2) The Reason for the Darkness of the Night by John Tresch
3) A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak
4) Shakespeare's Sisters by Sandra Gilbert
5) At Home with the Marquis De Sade by Francine du Plessix Gray
6) Blake: A Biography by Peter Ackroyd
7) Born to Be Posthumous by Mark Dery and The World of Edward Gorey by Clifford Ross
8) Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray and The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas
9) Burning Boy by Paul Auster
10) The Shadow of Vesuvius by Daisy Dunn
11) The Wordhord by Hanna Videen and Strange Vernaculars by Janet Sorensen
12) Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes
13) Contested Will by James Shapiro
14) Daniel Defoe by Richard West
15) Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran
16) Dinner with Joseph Johnson by Daisy Hay
17) Eden Renewed by Peter Levi
18) Hawthorne in Concord by Philip Mcfarland
19) In Byron's Wake by Miranda Seymour
20) Vindication by Lyndall Gordon
21) Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch
22) Wide as the Waters by Benson Bobrick
23) L.E.L. by Lucasta Miller
24) The Book-Makers by Adam Smyth
25) Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom by Roger Pearson and Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
26) Magnificent Rebels by Andrea Wulf
27) Malory by Christina Hardyment
28) Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot by Anna Beer
29) Mistress Bradstreet by Charlotte Gordon
30) My Wars Are Laid Away in Books by Alfred Habegger
31) The Trials of Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland and The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland
32) Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
33) Oscar Wilde: A Life by Matthew Sturgis
34) Out of the Flames by Lawrence Goldstone
35) Pirating and Publishing by Robert Darnton
36) Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton by Nicholas McDowell
37) Stendhal by Jonathan Keates
38) The Death and Life of Miguel de Cervantes by Milton Lesser
39) Tennyson by John Batchelor
40) Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese and Juliet by Sophie Duncan
41) Wilde's Women Eleanor Fitzsimons
42) The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
43) Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
44) The Fall of the House of Byron by Emily Brand
45) The Kindness of Sisters by David Crane
46) Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler and Narrative of Lord Byron’s Last Journey to Greece
47) The Making of the Poets by Ian Gilmore
48) The Man Who Understood Democracy by Olivier Zunz
49) The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein by Dorothy Hoobler and In Search of Frankenstein by Radu Florescu
50) The Peabody Sisters by Louise Hall Tharp
Bonus Reads:
Ladies of the Grand Tour by Brian Dolan
The Life of Voltaire by S.G. Tallentyre
In Search of the Pied Piper by Radu Florescu
Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty Lucien Jaume
Andre & Oscar by Jonathan Fryer
*A Literary Tour de France
*A Wilder Shore by Camille Peri
*Burning the Books Richard Ovenden
*Chaucer by Marion Turner
*Inky Fingers by Anthony Grafton
*Mad Woman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert
*The Bookshop of the World by Andrew Pettegree
*The Brontes: Wild Genius on the Moors by Juliet Barker
*The English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey by Robert Morrison
*The Madman's Library by Edward Brooke-Hitching
*The Wildes by Louis Bayard
*Vergil: The Poet's Life by Sarah Ruden
*White Heat by Brenda Wineapple
*Washington Irving: An American Original by Brian Jay Jones
*Making the Monster Kathryn Harkup
*Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
*Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution Ian Duncan
