Dead in 2019: The Authors We Lost

1.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,949 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,104 ratings
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty 4.23 avg rating — 29,465 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman 3.94 avg rating — 107,265 ratings
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The Shell Seekers
The Shell Seekers 4.20 avg rating — 118,241 ratings
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What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life
What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life 4.03 avg rating — 3,892 ratings
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Stand Up Straight and Sing!
Stand Up Straight and Sing! 3.92 avg rating — 302 ratings
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The River in the Sky
The River in the Sky 4.18 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth, #1)
Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth, #1) 3.65 avg rating — 20,583 ratings
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Mr. Gumpy's Outing
Mr. Gumpy's Outing 3.99 avg rating — 4,584 ratings
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations 4.30 avg rating — 4,085 ratings
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Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time 3.62 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Breathing Out
Breathing Out 3.51 avg rating — 212 ratings
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War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2) 4.43 avg rating — 38,936 ratings
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The Caine Mutiny
The Caine Mutiny 4.29 avg rating — 26,468 ratings
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Work in Progress
Work in Progress really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
17.
John F. Kennedy (The American Presidents, #35)
John F. Kennedy (The American Presidents, #35) 3.85 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Mog the Forgetful Cat (Mog #1)
Mog the Forgetful Cat (Mog #1) 4.32 avg rating — 4,967 ratings
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Scruples
Scruples 3.82 avg rating — 15,593 ratings
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Princess Daisy
Princess Daisy 3.79 avg rating — 4,654 ratings
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before 4.04 avg rating — 10,353 ratings
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Growing Up
Growing Up 4.10 avg rating — 7,495 ratings
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I, Rhoda
I, Rhoda 3.80 avg rating — 1,159 ratings
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The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter 4.02 avg rating — 7,615 ratings
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The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin, #1)
The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 43,233 ratings
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying 4.21 avg rating — 31,769 ratings
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The Cooking of China
The Cooking of China really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
24.
Small Island
Small Island 4.01 avg rating — 37,170 ratings
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Dreamsnake
Dreamsnake 3.87 avg rating — 11,065 ratings
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The Ship and the Safe Harbor: A Celebration of Toni Morrison in Interviews and Reviews from Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women (1988–1995)
The Ship and the Safe Harbor: A Celebration of Toni Morrison in Interviews and Reviews from Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women (1988–1995) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)
The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1) 4.38 avg rating — 58,925 ratings
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The Nick Tosches Reader
The Nick Tosches Reader 3.97 avg rating — 278 ratings
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The International Cookbook for Kids
The International Cookbook for Kids 3.94 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Unreliable Memoirs
Unreliable Memoirs 3.87 avg rating — 4,224 ratings
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Two of the Missing: Remembering Sean Flynn and Dana Stone
Two of the Missing: Remembering Sean Flynn and Dana Stone 4.10 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Life After Birth: What Even Your Friends Won't Tell You About Motherhood
Life After Birth: What Even Your Friends Won't Tell You About Motherhood 3.73 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Capital Dames: the Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Capital Dames: the Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 3.83 avg rating — 2,200 ratings
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The Untold Story of Frankie Silver: Was She Unjustly Hanged?
The Untold Story of Frankie Silver: Was She Unjustly Hanged? 3.62 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Don't Stop the Carnival
Don't Stop the Carnival 3.93 avg rating — 3,892 ratings
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The Comics Journal Library, Vol. 6: The Writers
The Comics Journal Library, Vol. 6: The Writers 3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States 4.30 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Marjorie Morningstar
Marjorie Morningstar 3.99 avg rating — 9,175 ratings
43.
Comics As Art: We Told You So
Comics As Art: We Told You So 4.05 avg rating — 73 ratings
43.
Darkest Before Dawn
Darkest Before Dawn 4.30 avg rating — 1,343 ratings
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The Bill Schelly Reader: Collected Essays about Comic Books, Comic Fandom & James Bond
The Bill Schelly Reader: Collected Essays about Comic Books, Comic Fandom & James Bond 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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No Silver Spoon
No Silver Spoon 4.29 avg rating — 1,053 ratings
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Founding Mothers
Founding Mothers 3.64 avg rating — 8,822 ratings
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James Warren, Empire Of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, And Famous Mons
James Warren, Empire Of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, And Famous Mons 4.35 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Them: A Memoir of Parents
Them: A Memoir of Parents 3.89 avg rating — 641 ratings
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 4.18 avg rating — 14,106 ratings
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Sense of Wonder: My Life in Comic Fandom--The Whole Story
Sense of Wonder: My Life in Comic Fandom--The Whole Story 4.35 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman
Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman 3.56 avg rating — 174 ratings
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"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide 4.22 avg rating — 3,482 ratings
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John Stanley: Giving Life To Little Lulu
John Stanley: Giving Life To Little Lulu 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way
The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way 3.88 avg rating — 577 ratings
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The Mount
The Mount 3.65 avg rating — 1,620 ratings
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Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary
Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary 4.25 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Sense of Occasion (Applause Books)
Sense of Occasion (Applause Books) 4.01 avg rating — 135 ratings
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The Front Runner (Harlan's Story, #1)
The Front Runner (Harlan's Story, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 6,082 ratings
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Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor i
Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor i 4.37 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Gloria Vanderbuilt Designs For Your Home
Gloria Vanderbuilt Designs For Your Home 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Brown Girl, Brownstones
Brown Girl, Brownstones 4.06 avg rating — 3,563 ratings
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Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert
Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert 4.10 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams
Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams 3.94 avg rating — 1,115 ratings
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Inner Sanctum: Tales of Horror, Mystery and Suspense
Inner Sanctum: Tales of Horror, Mystery and Suspense 3.18 avg rating — 38 ratings
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You Slept Where Last Night?
You Slept Where Last Night? 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Medusa Chain
The Medusa Chain 3.23 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator
Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator 3.70 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Ax
Ax 2.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Jim Fowler's Wildest Places on Earth
Jim Fowler's Wildest Places on Earth really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Memoir of Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Memoir of Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper 4.03 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Growing Up Giant
Growing Up Giant 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin
The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin 4.70 avg rating — 57 ratings
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God's Other Son
God's Other Son
by: Don Imus
3.08 avg rating — 206 ratings
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I Only Know Who I Am When I Am Somebody Else
I Only Know Who I Am When I Am Somebody Else 4.10 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Dark Shadows the Complete Newspaper Strips
Dark Shadows the Complete Newspaper Strips 4.27 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Marathon Continues: A Hood Tale of Nipsey Hussle
The Marathon Continues: A Hood Tale of Nipsey Hussle 4.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Sun Girl #3
Sun Girl #3
by: Ken Bald
2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
79.
Best Of Tumbleweeds
Best Of Tumbleweeds 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Tales of Supernatural Law (Supernatural Law, #1)
Tales of Supernatural Law (Supernatural Law, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun, #1-2)
Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun, #1-2) 4.04 avg rating — 21,841 ratings
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The Punisher Meets Archie #1
The Punisher Meets Archie #1 3.42 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Nate the Great
Nate the Great 4.04 avg rating — 14,407 ratings
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The Little Black Jacket: Chanel's Classic Revisted
The Little Black Jacket: Chanel's Classic Revisted 4.06 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Many Miles: Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver
Many Miles: Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver 4.47 avg rating — 382 ratings
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How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years: A Memoir
How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years: A Memoir 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
Long Life: Essays and Other Writings 4.29 avg rating — 1,638 ratings
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Voice of the Violin (Inspector Montalbano, #4)
Voice of the Violin (Inspector Montalbano, #4) 4.06 avg rating — 10,207 ratings
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New and Selected Poems
New and Selected Poems 4.55 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
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Fruit of the Lemon
Fruit of the Lemon 3.63 avg rating — 2,768 ratings
91.
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver 4.57 avg rating — 26,325 ratings
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Low Country
Low Country 3.98 avg rating — 18,777 ratings
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At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver
At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver 4.54 avg rating — 1,097 ratings
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The Tears of Autumn (Paul Christopher #2)
The Tears of Autumn (Paul Christopher #2) 4.03 avg rating — 2,409 ratings
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American Primitive
American Primitive 4.39 avg rating — 6,663 ratings
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Clive James on Television: Criticism from the Observer, 1972–1982
Clive James on Television: Criticism from the Observer, 1972–1982 4.28 avg rating — 113 ratings
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House of Light
House of Light 4.33 avg rating — 4,322 ratings
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Instead of a Letter: A Memoir
Instead of a Letter: A Memoir 3.88 avg rating — 816 ratings
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One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Journalist
One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Journalist 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Stet: An Editor's Life
Stet: An Editor's Life 3.94 avg rating — 1,607 ratings
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