Here’s the companion piece to Part I, delivered as promised.

• Travelling Heroes In the Epic Age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox
• America Dreaming How Youth Changed America in the 60’s by Laban Carrick Hill
• Fanny and Adelaide The Lives of the Remarkable Kemble Sisters by Ann Blainey
• The Booklover’s Guide to the Midwest A Literary Tour by Greg Holden
• Script and Scribble The Rise and Fall of Handwriting by Kitty Burns Florey
• Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch
• Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel by Edmund White
• The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head-Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay by Louis Begley
• The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
• Woman of Letters Irene Nemirovsky and Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
• My Paper Chase True Stories of Vanished Times by Harold Evans
• Paris to the Past Traveling Through French History by Train by Ina Caro
• Vedic Ecology: Practical Wisdom for Surviving the 21st Century by Ranchor Prime
• The Life of David by Robert Pinsky
• Saint Augustine, Tarsicius J. van Bavel, ed.
• All Hopped Up and Ready to Go Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77 by Tony Fletcher
• The Red Prince The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke by Timothy Snyder
• Renaissance Florence on 5 Florins a Day by Charles FitzRoy

I’ve learned a few things from typing out this list.

1. It should have been split into 3 parts.
2. I am obviously intrigued by anyone with a secret life.
3. Literary biographies are even more of a personal thing than I thought.

Plus, a bonus revelation:

1. If I read all of these books (and everything else on my ever-fattening To-Read List) I would not only never write another word, I would spend 20 hours a day reading in bed. For the rest of my life.