Recommendations from our site
“The Journals are, in their unabridged state, an astonishing body of work. We talk about how poets are born, not made, but what I always take away from every page of the Journals—and it’s a serious slab of a book—is the extent to which Plath was both born and self-made.” Read more...
Tim Kendall, Literary Scholar
Our most recommended books
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
by Anna Funder -
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
by Jean Mohr & John Berger -
Mukiwa
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U and I
by Nicholson Baker -
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed -
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X and assisted by Alex Haley, Laurence Fishburne (narrator)