Literary Hot Goss

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4 participants (111 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read books throughout the year related to the personal lives of famous writers. As sophisticated  or trashy as you prefer. Range of books can include biographies/autobiographies, memoirs, semi-autobiographical elements found in their fiction, author’s private journals, essays, letter collections, travelogues, etc. 

Challenge Books

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Чест by Elif Shafak

Чест

Elif Shafak

432 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Cho Nam-joo

162 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage

Yes, Daddy

Jonathan Parks-Ramage

9 hours, 7 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary thriller dark emotional tense medium-paced
The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers by

The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers

Believer Books of Writers Talking to Writers

454 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art informative reflective medium-paced
Philosopher of the Heart by Clare Carlisle, Clare Carlisle

Philosopher of the Heart

Clare Carlisle, Clare Carlisle

missing page info • first pub 2019 (editions)

challenging reflective medium-paced
Sui Sin Far / Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography by Annette White-Parks

Sui Sin Far / Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography

Annette White-Parks

288 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd

The Secret Life of Aphra Behn

Janet Todd

545 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
The Pleasures of Diaries: Four Centuries of Private Writing by Ronald Blythe

The Pleasures of Diaries: Four Centuries of Private Writing

Ronald Blythe

388 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir reflective slow-paced
The Illustrated Letters of the Brontës: The letters, diaries and writings of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë by Juliet Gardiner

The Illustrated Letters of the Brontës: The letters, diaries and writings of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë

Juliet Gardiner

160 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Iris Murdoch, a Writer at War: Letters and Diaries, 1939-1945 by Iris Murdoch, Peter J. Conradi

Iris Murdoch, a Writer at War: Letters and Diaries, 1939-1945

Iris Murdoch, Peter J. Conradi

304 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography essays history challenging informative reflective slow-paced