Books by Sylvia Plath

3. Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath .  Usually journals bore me after the first fifty pages.  But this lengthy volume is fascinating throughout, and arguably her greatest achievement?  At the very least worth a try.  She maintained an impossibly high level of writing across these years, plus you see (close up) the shifts in how her life was going, electroshock therapy and all.  Recommended.