Author: Joseph Raffetto
Joseph Raffetto earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature from San Diego State University. He can be found online @noovella on Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads. His books are available on all online booksellers.
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Some of the Best Fashion Books Available Now
Fashion trends might come and go—but a love of fashion is forever, and great style is truly timeless. As we close out 2026, we...
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Books by Patricia Highsmith
Even if her name doesn’t register at first, there’s a good chance that if you love psychological thrillers, you’ve read Patricia Highsmith–or you’ve run...
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Books by Timothy Snyder
A scholar and longtime professor of history at Yale (now at the University of Toronto), Timothy Snyder first achieved literary success with his 2010...
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Books by Anne Applebaum
n excellent journalist, Anne Applebaum was a foreign correspondent for The Economist and The Independent and reported on the fall of the Berlin Wall. She later worked for The...
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Books by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf writes so lyrically that her intelligent, experimental style translates beautifully into audiobooks. I focus on Woolf’s audiobooks because I find some writers...
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Books by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Kurt Vonnegut blended humor, satire, profound subjects, and science fiction with a uniqueness and light touch that captured the complexity and darkness of the...
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Books by Graham Greene
An important 20th-century author, Graham Greene was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Greene excelled at thrillers and political novels, subjects...
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Some of the Best Art Books Ever
These are some of my favorite books about art, design, film, artists, and the art of living. One of my favorite art books is The...
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The Best Books About or Set in Los Angeles
I have so much history with Los Angeles. I grew up a Dodger, Ram, and Laker fan. My family visited LA many times when...
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Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Books
Alain Robbe-Grillet was a leading practitioner of the Nouveau Roman (New Novel), a French literary movement of the 1950s that focused on objects rather...
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Susan Orlean’s Books
The description on Susan Orlean’s author page on Goodreads says she grew up happy in the suburbs of Cleveland before spending four happy years at the...
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Rebecca Solnit’s Books
I’m a huge fan of Rebecca Solnit, having listened to or read eight of her books, mainly on Audible, where she does a fine...
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Jorge Luis Borges’ Books
I first read Jorge Luis Borges in 1983 while earning my B.A. in comparative literature. Magic realism was huge and exciting during my college...
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The Best Audible Book Narrators
I’m a huge consumer of audiobooks. I’ve listened to hundreds of books over the past five years that I wouldn’t have had time to...
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Mysteries of Bowie and Other Oddities by Joseph Raffetto
I’m Joseph Raffetto, and this is my book. This post isn’t about what Mysteries of Bowie and Other Oddities is about; you can read that on Goodreads....
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Some of the Best Audible Books Ever
All of my best audible book recommendations have narrators who enhance the listening experience and in my opinion it makes the literary experience superior...
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David Bowie’s Favorite Books Categorized
To try and understand David Bowie’s favorite books, I broke them into categories based on genre, geography, art, music comics, and more....
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Fitzgerald and Hemingway
In this sample of “Three A.M.” we feature Ernest Hemingway, who Scott fawned over, while Zelda hated him with a passion. ...
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The Best Recent Books about George Orwell
George Orwell is probably the most written about writer ever and here are the best recent books about Orwell....
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Inside Orwell by Joseph Raffetto
Who is George Orwell? That’s the question my novella “Inside Orwell” attempts to answer. It’s a short piece, around 20,000 words, that covers the...