Lives of the Poets (and Philosophers)

1

Blumenberg

by Sibylle Lewitscharoff

76 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: thorold, spiphany, JuliaMaria
Explanations: spiphany: Hans Blumenberg

2

The Book of Salt

by Monique Truong

1,235 members

35 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aulsmith, JuliaMaria
Explanations: aulsmith: Gertrude Stein

3

The Master

by Colm Tóibín

3,120 members

90 reviews

3.9

2 Members: spiphany, JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Henry James

4

Lotte in Weimar

by Thomas Mann

809 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: spiphany, JuliaMaria
Explanations: spiphany: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5

Nothing Like the Sun

by Anthony Burgess

698 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thorold, spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: William Shakespeare

6

Königsallee

by Hans Pleschinski

39 members

2 reviews

4

2 Members: spiphany, JuliaMaria
Explanations: spiphany: Thomas Mann

7

Krieg der Sänger

by Robert Löhr

18 members

1 review

4.1

2 Members: thorold, spiphany
Explanations: thorold: Wolfram von Eschenbach, Walther von der Vogelweide, Heinrich von Ofterdingen, et al.

8

Faustinas Küsse.

by Hanns-Josef Ortheil

34 members

1 review

½ 3.4

2 Members: spiphany, JuliaMaria
Explanations: spiphany: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9

The Blue Flower

by Penelope Fitzgerald

1,974 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thorold, spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Novalis

10

The Book of Lies

by Felice Picano

166 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: The Violet Quills

11

Flush: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

1,417 members

40 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Dog's-eye-view of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

12

The Hours

by Michael Cunningham

12,764 members

232 reviews

3.9

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Virginia Woolf

13

Milton in America

by Peter Ackroyd

364 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: How Milton might have got on if he'd emigrated to New England at the Restoration

14

Wife to Mr. Milton

by Robert Graves

276 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Milton the misogynist?

15

The Praise Singer

by Mary Renault

866 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Simonides of Ceos

16

Chatterton

by Peter Ackroyd

885 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thorold

17

Summer in Baden-Baden

by Leonid Tsypkin

622 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Dostojewski

18

The Master of Petersburg

by J. M. Coetzee

1,166 members

22 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Dostojewski

19

The Lambs of London

by Peter Ackroyd

861 members

38 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Charles & Mary Lamb

20

'Tis Folly to Be Wise

by Lion Feuchtwanger

79 members

4.1

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

21

The Razor's Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham

6,259 members

118 reviews

4.1

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Ludwig Wittgenstein

22

Flaubert's Parrot

by Julian Barnes

3,952 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Flaubert

23

Author, Author

by David Lodge

651 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Henry James

24

Then and Now

by W. Somerset Maugham

501 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Machiavelli

25

Regeneration

by Pat Barker

4,511 members

113 reviews

4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Siegfried Sassoon

26

Samarkand

by Amin Maalouf

1,484 members

32 reviews

4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Omar Khayyam

27

The Postman

by Antonio Skármeta

1,215 members

34 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Pablo Neruda

28

The Magician

by Colm Tóibín

903 members

46 reviews

3.9

Member: spiphany

29

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

by Jerome Lawrence

838 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Henry David Thoreau

30

The Quickening Maze

by Adam Foulds

770 members

37 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: John Clare, Alfred Tennyson

31

No Place on Earth

by Christa Wolf

273 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Heinrich von Kleist

32

Song of a Captive Bird

by Jasmin Darznik

243 members

13 reviews

4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Forugh Farrokhzad

33

The Stalin Epigram

by Robert Littell

242 members

10 reviews

4.1

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Osip Mandelstam

34

The Love Artist

by Jane Alison

235 members

9 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Ovid

35

Shadowlands

by William Nicholson

174 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: C.S. Lewis

36

Grimm's Last Fairytale

by Haydn Middleton

133 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Grimm Brothers

37

Benjamin's Crossing

by Jay Parini

114 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Walter Benjamin

38

Fall of Frost: A Novel

by Brian Hall

106 members

4 reviews

3.1

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Robert Frost

39

The Glory of Life

by Michael Kumpfmüller

87 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Franz Kafka

40

God Was Born in Exile

by Vintila Horia

84 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Ovid

41

A View of the Empire at Sunset

by Caryl Phillips

82 members

3 reviews

3.1

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Jean Rhys

42

The Honeymoon

by Dinitia Smith

75 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: George Eliot

43

Hölderlin. Ein Roman

by Peter Härtling

70 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Friedrich Hölderlin

44

What's Left of the Night

by Ersi Sotiropoulos

67 members

5 reviews

½ 2.4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Constantine Cavafy

45

A Cry of Players

by William Gibson

60 members

3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: William Shakespeare

46

Die profanen Stunden des Glücks

by Renate Feyl

57 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Sophie La Roche

47

Pushkin

by Juri Tynjanov

57 members

4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Alexander Pushkin

48

The Angel of History

by Bruno Arpaia

57 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Walter Benjamin

49

The Devils' Dance

by Hamid Ismailov

55 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Abdulla Qodiriy

50

Palace of Flies

by Walter Kappacher

47 members

3 reviews

4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Hugo von Hofmannsthal

51

Konzert ohne Dichter

by Klaus Modick

44 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Rainer Maria Rilke

52

Fräulein Nettes kurzer Sommer

by Karen Duve

43 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Annette von Droste-Hülsoff

53

Die Welt ist im Kopf

by Christoph Poschenrieder

32 members

1 review

3.8

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Arthur Schopenhauer

54

Gogols ansikte

by Kjell Johansson

30 members

1 review

3

Member: spiphany

55

Sunset

by Klaus Modick

28 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Lion Feuchtwanger

56

Kafka in Love

by Jacqueline Raoul-Duval

21 members

3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Franz Kafka

57

Verirren oder das plötzliche Schweigen des Robert Walser

by Jürg Amann

17 members

½ 3.5

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Robert Walser

58

Was wir scheinen: Roman (German Edition)

by Hildegard E. Keller

15 members

1 review

4.1

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Hannah Arendt

59

Wiesenstein: Roman

by Hans Pleschinski

15 members

½ 3.3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Gerhart Hauptmann

60

King of Odessa

by Robert A. Rosenstone

15 members

1 review

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Isaac Babel

61

Keyserlings Geheimnis: Roman

by Klaus Modick

14 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Eduard von Keyserling

62

Sturz durch alle Spiegel. Eine Bestandsaufnahme

by Ursula Priess

14 members

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Ingeborg Bachmann, Max Frisch

63

Grimms Morde: Roman

by Tanja Kinkel

12 members

2 reviews

4

Member: spiphany

64

Der Trost des Nachthimmels: Roman

by Dzevad Karahasan

12 members

1 review

3.8

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Omar Khayyam

65

Die ganze Welt ist eine große Geschichte, und wir spielen darin mit

by Charlotte Roth

10 members

1 review

3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Michael Ende

66

Im presselschen Gartenhaus : eine Erzählung aus dem alten Tübingen

by Hermann Hesse

9 members

2

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Friedrich Hölderlin

67

Schwitters: Roman

by Ulrike Draesner

8 members

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Kurt Schwitters

68

Schönheit der Verwilderung.

by Henning Boëtius

8 members

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Johann Christian Günther

69

Die dunkle Lady

by Юрий Осипович Домбровский

6 members

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: William Shakespeare

70

Der unsichtbare Roman

by Christoph Poschenrieder

4 members

1 review

5

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Gustav Meyrink

71

Rencontre à Weimar (LE CABINET DES LETTRES (2))

by Louis Fürnberg

4 members

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Adam Mickiewicz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

72

A Mirror for Monkeys

by John Spurling

3 members

1 review

5

Member: spiphany

73

Orangen für Dostojewskij (German Edition)

by Michael Dangl

3 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: spiphany

74

The Paris Wife

by Paula McLain

6,089 members

371 reviews

½ 3.7

75

The Ghost Road

by Pat Barker

2,847 members

57 reviews

4

76

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

by Therese Anne Fowler

1,861 members

92 reviews

3.8

77

The Mandarins

by Simone de Beauvoir

1,738 members

16 reviews

4.1

78

The Crook Factory

by Dan Simmons

447 members

18 reviews

3.8

79

Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath

by Kate Moses

425 members

7 reviews

3.8

80

Mrs Hemingway

by Naomi Wood

387 members

20 reviews

3.8

81

The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year

by Jay Parini

379 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

82

West of Sunset

by Stewart O'Nan

370 members

24 reviews

3.8

83

Death at Rottingdean

by Robin Paige

335 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

84

Arctic Summer

by Damon Galgut

273 members

14 reviews

3.9

85

Adios Hemingway

by Leonardo Padura

266 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

86

The Secret History of Costaguana

by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

214 members

8 reviews

3.2

87

The Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York

by Joel Rose

201 members

16 reviews

½ 2.5

88

The Passages of H.M.

by Jay Parini

112 members

4 reviews

3.8

89

Winter

by Christopher Nicholson

105 members

8 reviews

3.8

90

They Were Defeated

by Rose Macaulay

79 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

91

Mother's Boy

by Patrick Gale

78 members

6 reviews

4.1

92

Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald

by R. Clifton Spargo

76 members

1 review

½ 3.6

93

The Typewriter's Tale

by Michiel Heyns

74 members

6 reviews

3

94

Malva roman

by Hagar Peeters

73 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

95

Leonora in the Morning Light

by Michaela Carter

68 members

2 reviews

4.1

96

Paper Houses

by Dominique Fortier

39 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

97

Little Fugue: A Novel

by Robert Anderson

38 members

½ 2.5

98

Das Gelübde

by Kai Meyer

21 members

½ 2.6

99

Charlotte Bronte's Secret Love

by Jolien Janzing

19 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

100

Pazifik Exil

by Michael Lentz

17 members

½ 4.3

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