If you are interested in Poe, you may like the book I'm reading at the moment: "Intimate Journals" by Charles Baudelaire. This is the description on the back cover of the book:
"Edgar Allen Poe suggested that any man who dared write a book with complete frankness would produce a masterpiece. Baudelaire began such a book--'My Heart Laid Bare', a passionately honest investigation of his secret thoughts and inclinations. That text, along with other fragments, literary notes, aphorisms, drafts of prose poems, and brilliant observations on politics, personalities, morals, and fashions, makes up these 'Intimate Journals.'"
