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by Simon Houpt
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by Julia Child
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by Lawrence Wright
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by Dale Brown
Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the
by Brad Matsen
Cancer Vixen
by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
Epileptic
by Daniel B
The 8:55 to Baghdad: From London to Iraq on the Trail of Agatha Christie
by Andrew Eames
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by Caroline Moorehead
The Ode Less Travelled
by Stephen Fry
Queen of the Oddballs
by Hillary Carlip
Poet’s Choice
by Edward Hirsch
Encyclopedia of an ordinary life : volume one
by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
To rule the waves : how the British Navy shaped the modern world
by Arthur Herman
Tab Hunter confidential : the making of a movie star
by Tab Hunter
Truck : a love story
by Michael Perry
The United States of Arugula : how we became a gourmet nation
by David Kamp
River of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey
by Candice Millard
Reading Like a Writer
by Francine Prose
Best American Essays of 2006
by Lauren Slater, guest ed.
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
by Nathaniel Fick
War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today
by Max Boot
Shadow of the Bear: Travels in Vanishing Wilderness
by Brian Payton
Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft
by Simon Houpt
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World’s 14 Highest Peaks
by Ed Viesturs with David Roberts
The Bill from My Father
by Bernard Cooper
The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine
by Paul Collins
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
by Daniel Mendelsohn
The Worst Hard Time
by Timothy Egan
Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks & Witty Retorts...
by Mardy Grothe
A Perfect Union : Dolly Madison and the creation of the American nation
by Catherine Allgor
This is Your Brain on Music : the science of a human obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin
Dead Reckoning : great adventure writing from the golden age of exploration
by Helen Whybrow
Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw : travels in search of Canada
by Will Ferguson
Stuffed : adventures of a restaurant family
by Patricia Volk
The Judgment of Paris
by Ross King
The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial
by Susan Eaton
Fowl Weather
by Bob Tarte
Walt Disney
by Neal Gabler
The House on Boulevard Street: New and Selected Poems
by David Kirby
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
by John Vaillant
The Great War for Civilisation
by Robert Fisk
Barrow’s Boys
by Fergus Fleming
Sunday money : speed, lust, madness, death.
by Jeff MacGregor
The Long Road Home
by Marth Raddatz
The Eiger Obsession
by John Harlin III
Book Description
In The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You’ll Never Read, Stuart Kelly describes misplaced, destroyed, or possibly never-even-begun-to-be-written works by major writers. Kelly looks at the (non)books of (arranged chronologically) Anonymous to Georges Perec, pausing, along the way, at Ovid, Alexander Pope, Jane Austen, T.E. Lawrence, and Ezra Pound. My advice is to read about the fate of one of the works, and then put the book down and go on to read something else (or get a good night’s sleep), otherwise I fear you won’t be able to keep straight whose manuscript was misplaced at a train station (Hemingway) or whose was possibly maliciously destroyed by a surviving spouse (Plath), as well as all the other examples of the ways books have been lost to us. Kelly’s writing is witty, his literary analysis is short but keen, and the description of each author’s works makes you want to rush out and read everything that he so enticingly describes. This is a perfect gift for English majors or, indeed, any reader worth his or her salt.
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