Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading

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Rascals at Large, or, The Clue in the Old Nostalgia
Rascals at Large, or, The Clue in the Old Nostalgia 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life
By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life 3.56 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America
Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America
by: Nina Baym
3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature 3.89 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Lezen op locatie: atlas van de wereldliteratuur
Lezen op locatie: atlas van de wereldliteratuur 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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On Reading
On Reading 4.45 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life 3.80 avg rating — 987 ratings
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Mama Sranan : 200 jaar Surinaamse verhaalkunst
Mama Sranan : 200 jaar Surinaamse verhaalkunst 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste
Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Modern Researcher
The Modern Researcher 3.69 avg rating — 177 ratings
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A Library Miscellany
A Library Miscellany 3.85 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Language Of The Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
Language Of The Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction 4.27 avg rating — 1,960 ratings
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Our Bodies, Our Shelves: A Collection of Library Humor
Our Bodies, Our Shelves: A Collection of Library Humor 3.31 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities
Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities 4.23 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Complete Illuminated Books
The Complete Illuminated Books 4.38 avg rating — 3,239 ratings
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I Read It, but I Don't Get It
I Read It, but I Don't Get It 4.16 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
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Perder teorías
Perder teorías 3.80 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art
The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art 4.26 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Contemporary Literature: The Basics
Contemporary Literature: The Basics 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Man Made Language
Man Made Language 4.23 avg rating — 200 ratings
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A Life with Books
A Life with Books 4.05 avg rating — 248 ratings
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The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, From Egypt to E-Book
The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, From Egypt to E-Book 3.83 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Geschiedenis van de klassieke Italiaanse literatuur
Geschiedenis van de klassieke Italiaanse literatuur 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Towards An Aesthetic Of Dalit Literature: History, Controversies And Considerations
Towards An Aesthetic Of Dalit Literature: History, Controversies And Considerations 3.44 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Patton Mind
The Patton Mind 4.26 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Scouts in Bondage and Other Violations of Literary Propriety
Scouts in Bondage and Other Violations of Literary Propriety 3.40 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Gifts of Reading
The Gifts of Reading 4.12 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
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The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the Year that Changed Literature
The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the Year that Changed Literature 3.78 avg rating — 623 ratings
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Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 3.91 avg rating — 417 ratings
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Henry V, War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzles
Henry V, War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzles 3.65 avg rating — 75 ratings
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On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature 4.28 avg rating — 1,440 ratings
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How to Read a Book
How to Read a Book 3.84 avg rating — 3,276 ratings
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Twenty-five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity
Twenty-five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity 3.71 avg rating — 593 ratings
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Booknotes : Life Stories : Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America
Booknotes : Life Stories : Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America 4.24 avg rating — 50 ratings
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On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays
On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays 3.61 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture (Phoenix Series)
Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture (Phoenix Series) 3.80 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Bequest of Wings: A Family's Pleasure with Books
Bequest of Wings: A Family's Pleasure with Books 4.39 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary
Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary 3.75 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It 4.29 avg rating — 6,103 ratings
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Uitgelezen moorden: een sociale geschiedenis van het misdaadverhaal
Uitgelezen moorden: een sociale geschiedenis van het misdaadverhaal 3.90 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Some Americans: A Personal Record
Some Americans: A Personal Record 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata
Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Fiction in the Quantum Universe
Fiction in the Quantum Universe 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Not Drowning, Reading
Not Drowning, Reading 3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Ex-Libris
Ex-Libris
by: Ross King
3.26 avg rating — 1,787 ratings
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Top 250 LGBTQ Books for Teens: Coming Out, Being Out, and the Search for Community
Top 250 LGBTQ Books for Teens: Coming Out, Being Out, and the Search for Community 3.63 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of a Blockbuster Novel
The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of a Blockbuster Novel 3.81 avg rating — 1,243 ratings
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Books In My Baggage: Adventures In Reading And Collecting
Books In My Baggage: Adventures In Reading And Collecting 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present
Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present 3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Who Was Dracula?: Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood
Who Was Dracula?: Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood 3.38 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Little Libraries, Big Heroes
Little Libraries, Big Heroes 4.22 avg rating — 784 ratings
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Comic-Book Book
Comic-Book Book 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings
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American Nights Entertainment
American Nights Entertainment 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Nesbit Tradition: The Children's Novel In England, 1945–1970
The Nesbit Tradition: The Children's Novel In England, 1945–1970 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts
My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts 3.81 avg rating — 125 ratings
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De 90 bekendste boeken voor mensen met haast
De 90 bekendste boeken voor mensen met haast 3.29 avg rating — 844 ratings
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The Magpie's Bagpipe: Selected Essays
The Magpie's Bagpipe: Selected Essays 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing 4.31 avg rating — 503 ratings
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How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children's Books
How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children's Books 4.07 avg rating — 531 ratings
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I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks 3.73 avg rating — 9,430 ratings
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The Literature of the United States
The Literature of the United States 3.44 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965
Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965 3.81 avg rating — 263 ratings
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On The Books: A Graphic Tale of Working Woes at NYC's Strand Bookstore
On The Books: A Graphic Tale of Working Woes at NYC's Strand Bookstore 3.26 avg rating — 168 ratings
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A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres
A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres 4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings
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For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance (Genre Fiction Monographs)
For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance (Genre Fiction Monographs) 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Rhetoric of Fiction
The Rhetoric of Fiction 4.01 avg rating — 1,258 ratings
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Shelf Life: Writers on Books and Reading
Shelf Life: Writers on Books and Reading 3.05 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Comix: A History of Comic Books in America
Comix: A History of Comic Books in America 4.03 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World
The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World 3.53 avg rating — 339 ratings
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How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics 4.06 avg rating — 888 ratings
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The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Writing Fiction and Nonfiction
The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Writing Fiction and Nonfiction 4.24 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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The Geography of the Imagination
The Geography of the Imagination 4.41 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Locating Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 44)
Locating Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 44) 3.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback
Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback 3.91 avg rating — 90 ratings
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New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction
New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction 3.58 avg rating — 257 ratings
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The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs
The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs 3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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In Search of Lost Books: The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes
In Search of Lost Books: The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes 3.56 avg rating — 566 ratings
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A Rhetoric of Irony (Phoenix Books)
A Rhetoric of Irony (Phoenix Books) 3.92 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread 3.55 avg rating — 1,916 ratings
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Book Business: Publishing Past, Present and Future
Book Business: Publishing Past, Present and Future 3.48 avg rating — 427 ratings
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Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook
Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook 3.80 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Seven Types of Ambiguity
Seven Types of Ambiguity 3.82 avg rating — 591 ratings
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Writing Machines (Mediaworks Pamphlets) (Mediawork Pamphlets Series)
Writing Machines (Mediaworks Pamphlets) (Mediawork Pamphlets Series) 3.82 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure 4.26 avg rating — 713 ratings
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Thirty Days to Better English: Learn to Speak and Write More Effectively--in Only Fifteen Minutes a Day!
Thirty Days to Better English: Learn to Speak and Write More Effectively--in Only Fifteen Minutes a Day! really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)
Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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My Father, the Pornographer
My Father, the Pornographer 3.62 avg rating — 2,023 ratings
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Irish Literature Since 1800 (Longman Literature In English Series)
Irish Literature Since 1800 (Longman Literature In English Series) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Love in a Dark Time: and Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature
Love in a Dark Time: and Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature 3.75 avg rating — 525 ratings
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Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels (Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies)
Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels (Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Aspects of the Novel
Aspects of the Novel 3.80 avg rating — 4,858 ratings
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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands 3.69 avg rating — 4,269 ratings
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Peculiar Questions and Practical Answers: A Little Book of Whimsy and Wisdom from the Files of the New York Public Library
Peculiar Questions and Practical Answers: A Little Book of Whimsy and Wisdom from the Files of the New York Public Library 3.34 avg rating — 361 ratings
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The Bookseller's Tale
The Bookseller's Tale 3.80 avg rating — 1,023 ratings
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Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels
Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels 3.88 avg rating — 104 ratings
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On Teaching and Writing Fiction
On Teaching and Writing Fiction 4.15 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Penguin by Design: A Cover Story, 1935-2005
Penguin by Design: A Cover Story, 1935-2005 4.14 avg rating — 849 ratings
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A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare
A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare 4.29 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Word Power Made Easy
Word Power Made Easy 4.42 avg rating — 9,118 ratings
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