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Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight!

James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media, Being the Best YOU You Can Be and Saving Yourself from Loneliness, Vol. 1

Stewart Lee: Pea Green Boat

Spike Milligan: Adolf Hitler

Herman Melville: Bartleby, the Scrivener

James Thurber: My Life and Hard Times

John Ashbery: The Ice Storm

Sophie Grace Chappell: A Philosopher Looks at Friendship

Jehanne Dubrow: Frivolity

Anthony Irvine and Robert Wringham: Melt It! The Book of the Iceman

Lara Mimosa Montes: The Somnambulist

Erasmus: The Praise of Folly

Simon Critchley: On Humour

Neal R. Norrick: Conversational Joking

Rachel Cleverly: Prickle

George Eliot: Middlemarch

Julian Barnes: Nothing to Be Frightened Of

Lara Mimosa Montes: The Time of the Novel

Terry Eagleton: A Death of One's Own

Peter Schjeldahl: The Art of Dying