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Susan Sontag

By Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag's Favorite Books

Susan Sontag was a philosopher and critic best known for her essays "AIDS and its Metaphors," "Against Interpretation," and "Notes on Camp," as well as the bear suit pictured above. Below are some books mentioned on rereading lists in Sontag's diaries throughout her teens and twenties.

bookcover for Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy, 

E B Greenwood, 

E B Greenwood, 

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$7.99

$7.43

bookcover for Faust, Part One

Faust, Part One

J W Von Goethe, 

David Luke, 

David Luke 

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$9.94

$9.24

bookcover for The Nature of Things

The Nature of Things

Lucretius, 

Richard Jenkyns, 

A. E. Stallings 

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$16.00

$14.88

bookcover for The Immoralist

The Immoralist

Andre Gide, 

Richard Howard 

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$15.00

bookcover for The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri, 

John Ciardi 

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$22.00

$20.46

bookcover for Under Western Eyes

Under Western Eyes

Joseph Conrad, 

Stephen Donovan, 

J. H. Stape, 

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$13.00

$12.09