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Good Books That Don't Make the Greatest Books Ever List

It's the oddball books, the not in the most prominent place on the shelf that catches this eye. These are stories, biographies, picture books, and humor that satisfy and delight.
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On the Black Hill
On the Black Hill
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High Windows (Philip Larkin)
High Windows
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Philip Larkin
Collected Poems Stevie Smith (Stevie Smith)
Collected Poems Stevie Smith
3
Stevie Smith
Hattie Mcdaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (Jill Watts)
Hattie Mcdaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood
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Jill Watts
Keep the River on Your Right (Tobias Schneebaum)
Keep the River on Your Right
5
Tobias Schneebaum
The Andy Warhol Diaries
The Andy Warhol Diaries
6
The Songlines
The Songlines
7
Memento Mori (Muriel Spark)
Memento Mori
8
Muriel Spark
And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagen in a Poker Game (David Forrest)
And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagen in a Poker Game
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David Forrest
Edwin Mullhouse (Steven Millhauser)
Edwin Mullhouse
10
Steven Millhauser
It Happened in Boston?
It Happened in Boston?
11
The Bird Artist
The Bird Artist
12
A Perfect Waiter (Alan Claude Sulzer)
A Perfect Waiter
13
Alan Claude Sulzer
Girl With a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)
Girl With a Pearl Earring
14
Tracy Chevalier
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (Stephen D. Youngkin)
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre
15
Stephen D. Youngkin
The Complete Poems & Plays of T.S. Eliot
The Complete Poems & Plays of T.S. Eliot
16
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
17
Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keefe by Laurie Listle
Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keefe by Laurie Listle
18
Erte Art Deco Master of Graphic Art and Illustration (Rosalind Ormiston)
Erte Art Deco Master of Graphic Art and Illustration
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Rosalind Ormiston
Utz (Bruce Chatwin)
Utz
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Bruce Chatwin
Making History (Fry)
Making History
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Fry
Hitchcock (Truffaut)
Hitchcock
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Truffaut
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
23
Miss Lonelyhearts (Nathanael West)
Miss Lonelyhearts
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Nathanael West
Dorothy Parker: What the Fresh Hell Is This? (Marion Meade)
Dorothy Parker: What the Fresh Hell Is This?
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Marion Meade
Good Morning, Miss Dove (Frances Gray Patton)
Good Morning, Miss Dove
26
Frances Gray Patton
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
27
Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
28
Four Baboons Adoring the Sun (John Guare)
Four Baboons Adoring the Sun
29
John Guare
Music for Chameleons (Truman Capote)
Music for Chameleons
30
Truman Capote
Swimming to Cambodia (Spaulding Gray)
Swimming to Cambodia
31
Spaulding Gray
The Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston)
The Woman Warrior
32
Maxine Hong Kingston
In Patagonia
In Patagonia
33
Fences (August Wilson)
Fences
34
August Wilson
If Beale Street Could Talk (James Baldwin)
If Beale Street Could Talk
35
James Baldwin
Auntie Mame (Patrick Dennis)
Auntie Mame
36
Patrick Dennis
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Manuel Puig)
Kiss of the Spider Woman
37
Manuel Puig
The Day of the Locust (Nathanael West)
The Day of the Locust
38
Nathanael West
The Last Picture Show (Larry McMurtry)
The Last Picture Show
39
Larry McMurtry
E.E. Cummings Poetry
E.E. Cummings Poetry
40
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