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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    November 2014
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canonA signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a co...






  • A hilariously charming novel about a heartbroken man trying to redeem himself by championing forgotten booksFleeing heartbreak, an unnamed author goes to an unnamed city to give a series of lectures at an unnamed university about forgotten books ... ...



  • A supposedly long lost collection of fable-like stories supposedly written by the little-known middle European writer Maxim Guyavitch ... with a helpful intro and afterword making it hilariously clear that the keyword is "supposedly."In the novel WHO...



  • “A book that belongs on the same shelf as Italo Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler,” Nabokov’s “Pale Fire”, and several works by Zoran Zivkovic, Stanislaw Lem and David Markson.” -- Michael Dirda, The Washington PostA...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

C.D. Rose has published 6 books.

C.D. Rose does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea, was published in January 2024.

The first book by C.D. Rose, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure, was published in November 2014.

No. C.D. Rose does not write books in series.