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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
Philip Larkin
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Collected Poems Stevie Smith (Stevie Smith)
Collected Poems Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith
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Hattie Mcdaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (Jill Watts)
Hattie Mcdaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood
Jill Watts
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Keep the River on Your Right (Tobias Schneebaum)
Keep the River on Your Right
Tobias Schneebaum
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The Andy Warhol Diaries
The Andy Warhol Diaries
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The Songlines
The Songlines
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Memento Mori (Muriel Spark)
Memento Mori
Muriel Spark
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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
David Forrest
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Edwin Mullhouse (Steven Millhauser)
Edwin Mullhouse
Steven Millhauser
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It Happened in Boston?
It Happened in Boston?
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The Bird Artist
The Bird Artist
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A Perfect Waiter (Alan Claude Sulzer)
A Perfect Waiter
Alan Claude Sulzer
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Girl With a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier
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The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (Stephen D. Youngkin)
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre
Stephen D. Youngkin
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The Complete Poems & Plays of T.S. Eliot
The Complete Poems & Plays of T.S. Eliot
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The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
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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
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Erte Art Deco Master of Graphic Art and Illustration (Rosalind Ormiston)
Erte Art Deco Master of Graphic Art and Illustration
Rosalind Ormiston
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Utz (Bruce Chatwin)
Utz
Bruce Chatwin
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Making History (Fry)
Making History
Fry
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Hitchcock (Truffaut)
Hitchcock
Truffaut
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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Miss Lonelyhearts (Nathanael West)
Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathanael West
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Dorothy Parker: What the Fresh Hell Is This? (Marion Meade)
Dorothy Parker: What the Fresh Hell Is This?
Marion Meade
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Good Morning, Miss Dove (Frances Gray Patton)
Good Morning, Miss Dove
Frances Gray Patton
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
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Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
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Four Baboons Adoring the Sun (John Guare)
Four Baboons Adoring the Sun
John Guare
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Music for Chameleons (Truman Capote)
Music for Chameleons
Truman Capote
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Swimming to Cambodia (Spaulding Gray)
Swimming to Cambodia
Spaulding Gray
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The Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston)
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
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In Patagonia
In Patagonia
34
Fences (August Wilson)
Fences
August Wilson
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If Beale Street Could Talk (James Baldwin)
If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
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Auntie Mame (Patrick Dennis)
Auntie Mame
Patrick Dennis
37
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Manuel Puig)
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Manuel Puig
38
The Day of the Locust (Nathanael West)
The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
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The Last Picture Show (Larry McMurtry)
The Last Picture Show
Larry McMurtry
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E.E. Cummings Poetry
E.E. Cummings Poetry
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