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Bibliographies


Tim Bowling: The Book Collector (2008)


(Alphabetical)

[A = Acquisitions]
[B = Books I'd Like to Own]
[C = Cross-Genre Writing]
[CNZ = Contemporary NZ Writers]
[F = Advanced Fiction Writing]
[M = The Imaginary Museum]
[Michele 2021 = Michele Leggott Festschrift]
[N = NZSF]
[O = Opinions]



Famous Authors

Authors:

    A

  1. Kōbō Abe (1924-1993) [B]
  2. Kathy Acker (c.1944-1997) [C] [F]
  3. Henry Adams (1838-1918) [A]
  4. Robert Aickman (1914-1981) [B]
  5. Richard Aldington (1892-1962) [A]
  6. Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) [A]
  7. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) [A] [M]
  8. Martin Amis (1949- ) [M]
  9. Hiro Arikawa (1972- ) [A]
  10. Martin Armstrong (1882-1974) [C] [F]
  11. John Ashbery (1927-2017) [A]
  12. Geoffrey Ashe (1923-2022) [M]
  13. Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) [B] [M]
  14. Machado de Assis (1839-1908) [B]
  15. Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974) [A]
  16. W. H. Auden (1907-1973) [A] [B] [C] [M1] M2] [M3]

  17. B

  18. James Baldwin (1924-1987) [M]
  19. J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) [B] [M]
  20. Russell Banks (1940-2023) [B]
  21. Owen Barfield (1898-1997) [A]
  22. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) [C] [F]
  23. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) [C]
  24. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) [A] [M]
  25. James K. Baxter (1926-1972) [B]
  26. Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) [B]
  27. Antony Beevor (1946- ) [A]
  28. Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) [A]
  29. John Berryman (1914-1972) [B]
  30. John Betjeman (1906-1984) [A]
  31. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) [B]
  32. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) [B]
  33. R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900) [B]
  34. Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) [B] [M]
  35. William Blake (1757-1827) [C]
  36. Karen Blixen ['Isak Dinesen'] (1885-1962) [B]
  37. Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) [A]
  38. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) [A] [C] [F]
  39. George Borrow (1803-1881) [B] [M]
  40. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) [B] [M]
  41. Joe Brainard (1942-1994) [A]
  42. Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) [A]
  43. Katharine M. Briggs (1898-1980) [A1 [A2]
  44. Anne Brontë (1820-1849) [M]
  45. Branwell Brontë (1817-1848) [M]
  46. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) [M]
  47. Emily Brontë (1818-1848) [M]
  48. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) [A]
  49. Alan Brunton (1946-2002) [M]
  50. John Buchan (1875-1940) [B]
  51. Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) [B]
  52. Fanny Burney (1752-1840) [A]
  53. William Burroughs (1914-1997) [A]
  54. Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) [B] [F] [M]
  55. Samuel Butler (1835-1902) [N]
  56. Lord Byron (1788-1824) [A] [B]

  57. C

  58. Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005) [A]
  59. Julius Caesar (c.100–44 BCE) [A]
  60. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) [B]
  61. Albert Camus (1913-1960) [B]
  62. Truman Capote (1924-1984) [B] [C] [M]
  63. Orson Scott Card (1951- ) [M]
  64. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) [A] [B]
  65. Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) [A]
  66. Anne Carson (1950- ) [C] [CNZ]
  67. Roger Casement (1864-1916) [A]
  68. Lord David Cecil (1902-1986) [B]
  69. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [A] [M1] [M2]
  70. Michael Chabon (1963- ) [A] [B] [C] [O]
  71. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) [A]
  72. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) [B] [M]
  73. John Christopher (1922-2012) [B]
  74. Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) [A] [M]
  75. John Clare (1793-1864) [A] [M]
  76. Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) [A]
  77. Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) [B] [M]
  78. Susanna Clark (1959- ) [A]
  79. Jerome W. Clinton (1937-2003) [F]
  80. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) [A]
  81. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) [B] [M]
  82. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) [B] [M]
  83. Susan Cooper (1935- ) [A]
  84. Tim Corballis (1971- ) [F]
  85. Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) [A]
  86. James Cowan (1870-1943) [A]
  87. Michael Cox (1948-2009) [M]
  88. Nigel Cox (1951-2006) [N]
  89. Stephen Crane (1871-1900) [A]
  90. John Cranna (1954- ) [N]
  91. F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909) [B]
  92. Edmund Crispin (1921-1978) [B]
  93. John Crowley (1942- ) [A]

  94. D

  95. Roald Dahl (1916-1990) [B]
  96. Lydia Davis (1947- ) [B] [C] [M]
  97. Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972) [M]
  98. Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) [B]
  99. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) [A] [B]
  100. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) [B] [M]
  101. Samuel R. Delany (1942- ) [B]
  102. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) [A] [M]
  103. Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) [A] [B] [F] [M]
  104. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) [B] [M1] [M2]
  105. Peter Dickinson (1927-2015) [B]
  106. Joan Didion (1934-2021) [B]
  107. Bill Direen (1957- ) [N]
  108. John Dos Passos (1896-1970) [B]
  109. José Donoso (1924-1996) [A]
  110. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) [B] [M]
  111. Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) [B]
  112. Maurice Duggan (1922-1974) [B]
  113. Breton Dukes [F]
  114. Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989) [B]
  115. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) [A] [B]
  116. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) [A] [B]

  117. E

  118. Martin Edmond (1952- ) [C]
  119. George Eliot (1819-1880) [B]
  120. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) [B]
  121. Shūsaku Endō (1923-1996) [B]

  122. F

  123. Fiona Farrell (1947- ) [CNZ]
  124. William Faulkner (1897-1962) [A] [M]
  125. Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883) [B]
  126. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) [A]
  127. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) [B]
  128. Shelby Foote (1916-2005) [A]
  129. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) [A] [B]
  130. C. S. Forester (1899-1966) [B]
  131. John Fowles (1926-2005) [B]
  132. Janet Frame (1924–2004) [B]
  133. Jonathan Franzen (1959- ) [B] [O]
  134. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) [M]
  135. Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012) [A]
  136. Paul Fussell (1924-2012) [A]

  137. G

  138. William Gaddis (1922-1998) [B]
  139. Neil Gaiman (1960- ) [A] [B] [M]
  140. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) [A] [F]
  141. Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca (1539-1616) [A]
  142. Alan Garner (1934- ) [B] [M]
  143. Constance Garnett (1861-1946) [M]
  144. David Garnett (1892-1981) [M]
  145. Richard Garnett (1923-2013) [M]
  146. Maurice Gee (1931- ) [B]
  147. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) [A]
  148. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) [A]
  149. Philip Gluckman (1954- ) [N]
  150. William Golding (1911-1993) [M]
  151. Edward Gorey (1925-2000) [A] [B] [M]
  152. Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) [B]
  153. Günter Grass (1927-2015) [B]
  154. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [A1] [A2] [B] [M]
  155. Graham Greene (1904-1991) [B] [M]
  156. Lady Gregory (1852-1932) [A]
  157. Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) [M]
  158. Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) [A]
  159. Heinz Grotzfeld [F]
  160. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) [A]

  161. H

  162. Husain Haddawy [F]
  163. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) [A]
  164. Russell Haley (1934-2016) [B] [M]
  165. Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) [M]
  166. Andras Hamori [F]
  167. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) [A]
  168. Michael Harlow (1930- ) [CNZ]
  169. Wilson Harris (1921-2018) [B]
  170. Craig Harrison (1942- ) [B] [M] [N]
  171. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972) [B]
  172. Max Hastings (1945- ) [A]
  173. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) [M]
  174. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) [B] [M]
  175. Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) [B] [M]
  176. Joseph Heller (1923-1999) [B]
  177. Lillian Hellman (1905–1984) [M]
  178. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) [B]
  179. O. Henry (1862-1910) [B]
  180. Frank Herbert (1920-1986) [B] [M]
  181. Hergé (1907-1983) [A]
  182. Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BCE) [A]
  183. Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) [B] [M]
  184. Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016) [B]
  185. Susan Hill (1942- ) [B]
  186. Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) [A]
  187. Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913) [A]
  188. William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) [B]
  189. E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) [M]
  190. Henry Honor [N]
  191. Josef Horovitz (1974-1931) [F]
  192. Dylan Horrocks (1966- ) [N]
  193. David Howarth (1912-1991) [A]
  194. Susan Howe (1937- ) [C] [CNZ]
  195. Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) [B]
  196. W. H. Hudson (1841-1922) [A]
  197. Ted Hughes (1930-1998) [B] [M]
  198. T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) [A]
  199. John Hunt (1910-1998) [A]
  200. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) [A] [B]
  201. Robin Hyde (1906-1939) [C]
  202. Samuel Hynes (1924–2019) [B]

  203. I

  204. Witi Ihimaera (1944- ) [F]
  205. Washington Irving (1783-1859) [A]
  206. Margaret Irwin (1889–1967) [B] [M]
  207. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) [B] [M]

  208. J

  209. Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) [F]
  210. Henry James (1843-1916) [A] [M1] [M2]
  211. M. R. James (1862-1936) [A] [B] [F] [M]
  212. Lynn Jenner (1955- ) [C]
  213. Mike Johnson (1947- ) [N]
  214. David Jones (1895-1974) [A]
  215. M. K. Joseph (1914-1981) [N]
  216. James Joyce (1882-1941) [B] [M]

  217. K

  218. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) [B] [M]
  219. Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) [B]
  220. John Keats (1795-1821) [A]
  221. Donald Keene (1922-2019) [C]
  222. Jan Kemp (1949- ) [B]
  223. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) [A]
  224. Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982) [B]
  225. Abdelfattah Kilito (1945- ) [F]
  226. Stephen King (1947- ) [A1] [A2] [A3] [M]
  227. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) [A] [B] [M]
  228. Elizabeth Knox (1959- ) [N]
  229. Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) [A]
  230. Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) [B] [M]
  231. Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979) [A]
  232. Leicester Kyle (1937-2006) [C] [The Collected Poems of Leicester Hugo Kyle]

  233. L

  234. Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828) [A]
  235. Edward W. Lane (1801-1876) [F]
  236. Philip Larkin (1922-1985) [A] [B]
  237. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) [B]
  238. T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) [M]
  239. Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917) [A]
  240. J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) [B] [M]
  241. Michele Leggott (1956- ) [A] [CNZ] [Michele 2021]
  242. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) [A] [B] [F] [M]
  243. Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) [B] [F] [M]
  244. Primo Levi (1919-1987) [B] [M]
  245. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) [C]
  246. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) [A] [A2]
  247. W. H. Lewis (1895-1973) [A]
  248. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) [B]
  249. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1965) [A]
  250. Graham Lindsay (1952- ) [CNZ]
  251. Deborah Lipstadt (1947- ) [A]
  252. Jack London (1876-1916) [B]
  253. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) [A]
  254. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) [A [M]
  255. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) [B] [M1] [M2]
  256. Luo Guanzhong (c.1330–1400 or c.1280–1360) [A]

  257. M

  258. Olivia Macassey (1975- ) [C]
  259. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) [A]
  260. Arthur Machen (1863-1947) [M]
  261. David McCullough (1933-2022) [B]
  262. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916) [A]
  263. George MacDonald (1824-1905) [B] [M]
  264. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) [M]
  265. Muhsin Mahdi (1926-2007) [F]
  266. Norman Mailer (1923-2007) [B] [C] [M]
  267. Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) [B] [M]
  268. George Mallory (1886-1924) [A]
  269. Phillip Mann (1942-2022) [N]
  270. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [A] [B] [M]
  271. George R. R. Martin (1948- ) [A]
  272. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) [A]
  273. John Masefield (1878-1967) [A] [B] [M] [MA Thesis: John Masefield]
  274. William Mayne (1928-2010) [B]
  275. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [A] [M]
  276. Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923-1996) [B] [M]
  277. Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) [B]
  278. Alan Moore (1953- ) [A]
  279. Ward Moore (1912-1991) [A]
  280. William Morris (1834–1896) [B]
  281. John L. Motley (1814-1877) [A]
  282. Paul Muldoon (1951- ) [CNZ]
  283. Alice Munro (1931–2024) [M]
  284. Haruki Murakami (1949- ) [A] [B]
  285. Lady Murasaki (c.973-c.1014/25) [A]
  286. Les Murray (1938-2019) [A]
  287. Robert Musil (1880-1942) [B] [M]

  288. N

  289. Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) [A] [B] [C] [M]
  290. Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) [A] [B]
  291. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) [B] [M]
  292. E. Nesbit (1858-1924) [B]
  293. Peter F. Neumeyer (1929- ) [A]
  294. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) [C]
  295. Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986)[A]
  296. John Julius Norwich (1929–2018) [M]

  297. O

  298. Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) [A]
  299. Kenzaburō Ōe (1935- ) [B]
  300. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) [A]
  301. Zoé Oldenbourg (1916–2002) [B] [M]
  302. Michael Ondaatje (1943- ) [C]
  303. Oliver Onions (1873-1961) [B]
  304. George Orwell (1903-1950) [A] [M]
  305. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) [A]

  306. P

  307. Hershel Parker (1935- ) [M]
  308. Francis Parkman (1823-1893) [A]
  309. John Payne (1842-1916) [A]
  310. Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) [A]
  311. Georges Perec (1936-1982) [B] [M]
  312. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [A] [M]
  313. David Pinault [F]
  314. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) [A] [B]
  315. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) [F] [M]
  316. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) [A] [B]
  317. Tim Powers (1952- ) [B] [M]
  318. John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) [B] [M]
  319. T. F. Powys (1875-1953) [B]
  320. Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939) [B]
  321. John Prebble (1915-2001) [B]
  322. William H. Prescott (1796-1859) [A]
  323. Harry Price (1881-1948) [A]
  324. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) [B] [M]
  325. Pu Songling (1640-1715) [M]
  326. Manuel Puig (1932-1990) [A]

  327. R

  328. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) [M]
  329. Herbert Read (1893-1968) [A]
  330. Peter Reading (1946-2011) [CNZ]
  331. Mary Renault (1905-1983) [B]
  332. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005) [A]
  333. Keith Roberts (1935-2000) [A]
  334. Michael Roberts (1902-1948) [M]
  335. Harold Robbins (1916-1997) [F]
  336. Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) (1860–1913) [B]
  337. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) [A]
  338. Jack Ross (1962- ) [F]
  339. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) [A]
  340. Steven Runciman (1903-2000) [M]
  341. Damon Runyon (1880-1946) [A]
  342. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) [A]

  343. S

  344. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) [A]
  345. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [A] [B] [M]
  346. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) [B] [M]
  347. James Schuyler (1923-1991) [A]
  348. Rosie Scott (1948-2017) [N]
  349. W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) [A][B] [M]
  350. Sei Shōnagon (c.966–1017) [C]
  351. Maurice Shadbolt (1932-2004) [B]
  352. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [A1] [A2]
  353. Tina Shaw (1961- ) [F]
  354. Mary Shelley (1797-1851) [M]
  355. Shi Nai'an (c.1296-1372) [A]
  356. Eric Shipton (1907-1977) [A]
  357. Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [B] [M]
  358. Iain Sinclair (1943- ) [B] [M]
  359. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) [B]
  360. Frank Smythe (1900-1949) [A]
  361. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) [A] [B]
  362. Charles Sorley (1895-1915) [A]
  363. Stephen Spender (1909-1995) [M]
  364. Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014) [A]
  365. C. K. Stead (1932- ) [B] [N]
  366. John Steinbeck (1902-1968) [B]
  367. George Steiner (1929–2020) [B]
  368. Stendhal (1783–1842) [B]
  369. James Stephens (1880-1950) [A1] [A2]
  370. John L. Stephens (1805-1852) [A] [M]
  371. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) [A]
  372. Mary Stewart (1916-2014) [B]
  373. Bram Stoker (1847-1912) [B] [M]
  374. Irving Stone (1903-1989) [B]
  375. T. G. H. Strehlow (1908–1978) [B]
  376. William Styron (1925-2006) [B]
  377. Montague Summers (1880-1948) [B]

  378. T

  379. Tacitus (c.56–c.120) [A]
  380. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965) [B]
  381. Alice Tawhai [F]
  382. Dennis Tedlock (1939-2016) [C]
  383. Philip Temple (1939- ) [N]
  384. W. M. Thackeray (1811-1863) [B]
  385. D. M. Thomas (1935- ) [B]
  386. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) [B] [M]
  387. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [A] [B] [M]
  388. Rhydian Thomas [N]
  389. R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) [B] [M]
  390. Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) [B] [C]
  391. Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE) [A]
  392. James Thurber (1894-1961) [B]
  393. H. W. Tilman (1898-1977)[A]
  394. Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017) [F]
  395. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) [A]
  396. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [A] [M]
  397. Henry Torrens (1806–1852) [B] [M]
  398. Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) [B]
  399. Mark Twain (1837-1910) [A]

  400. V

  401. Jack Vance (1916-2013) [A]
  402. Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) [M]
  403. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- ) [A]
  404. Jules Verne (1828-1905) [M1] [M2]
  405. Gore Vidal (1925-2012) [M]
  406. Julius Vogel (1835-1899) [N]
  407. Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) [B]
  408. Richard von Sturmer (1957- ) [C]

  409. W

  410. Helen Waddell (1889-1965) [B]
  411. H. Russell Wakefield (1888-1964) [B]
  412. Derek Walcott (1930-2017) [CNZ]
  413. Arthur Waley (1889-1966) [B] [M]
  414. Rex Warner (1905-1986) [M]
  415. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) [A] [B]
  416. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) [B]
  417. A. P. Wavell (1883-1950) [A]
  418. Ian Wedde (1946- ) [CNZ]
  419. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) [B] [F] [M]
  420. Albert Wendt (1939– ) [B] [M] [N]
  421. Patrick White (1912-1990) [B]
  422. T. H. White (1906-1964) [B]
  423. Summer Wigmore (2013- ) [N]
  424. Charles Williams (1886-1945) [A]
  425. Tad Williams (1957- ) [A] [M]
  426. Colin Wilson (1931-2013) [M]
  427. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) [B]
  428. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) [A] [B]
  429. Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) [B] [M]
  430. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) [B]
  431. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) [B] [C]
  432. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) [B]
  433. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) [B]
  434. Herman Wouk (1915-2019) [M]
  435. Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582) [A]
  436. John Wyndham (1903-1969) [B]

  437. Y

  438. Frances A. Yates (1899-1981) [B] [M]
  439. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) [A1] [A2] [B]
  440. Banana Yoshimoto (1964- ) [B]
  441. Yuan Mei (1716–1797) [M]




Robert Alter: The Hebrew Bible (2019)

Series & Themes:

  1. Alternate Histories (1953-2011) [A]
  2. American Civil War (1861-1865) [A] [M]
  3. Ancient Indian Epics [A]
  4. Arabian Nights Bibliography (1704-2016) [F] [Scheherazade's Web]
  5. Arabian Nights Chronology (800-2016) [Scheherazade's Web]
  6. Arabian Nights Concordance (1704-1990) [Scheherazade's Web]
  7. The Arabian Nights in Spanish (1934-2016) [A]
  8. The Bible (c.1400-400 BC / c.50-200 AD) [A] [C]
  9. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (1931- ) [M]
  10. The Bodley Head Editions (1958-1994) [A]
  11. The Bounty (1789- ) [M]
  12. Britannica Great Books of the Western World (1952) [M]
  13. British Ballads (1765- ) [A]
  14. The Brontës [B] [M1] [M2]
  15. Children's Poetry Books (1789- ) [A]
  16. Chinese Ghost Stories [M]
  17. Clarkson N. Potter Annotated Editions (1960-1986) [A]
  18. The Classic Chinese Novel [A1] [A2] [M1] [M2] [O]
  19. D-Day (6 June, 1944) [A]
  20. Easter 1916 [A]
  21. Eighteenth Century Books [A]
  22. Faerie [A]
  23. Fairy Tales (1697- ) [M]
  24. The Folio Society (1947- ) [A] [M]
  25. Greek Historians (c.100 BCE-100 CE) [A]
  26. The Hakluyt Society (1846- ) [A]
  27. Himalayan Exploration (1921-1953) [A]
  28. Homer (fl. c.800 BCE) [A]
  29. The Icelandic Sagas (1960-2002) [A1] (1997) [A2]
  30. Kalila and Dimna (c.800 BCE) [M]
  31. The Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- ) [A]
  32. Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s) [A]
  33. The Library of America (1979- ) [M]
  34. The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860) [A]
  35. Lives of the Novelists (2011) [A]
  36. The Loeb Classics (1912- ) [A]
  37. Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- ) [A]
  38. The Muses' Library: 1st Series (26 vols - 1891-1940) / 2nd Series (16 vols - 1949-1980) [B]
  39. Napoleon (1769-1821) [A]
  40. The New York School of Poets [A]
  41. New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021) [A]
  42. NZSF Chronology (1863-2020) [N]
  43. Noah's Ark [A]
  44. The Nonesuch Library (1927-77) [A]
  45. Norton Annotated Editions (2000- ) [A]
  46. Omnibuses (1930-1985) [A]
  47. Oxford Books of Verse (1900- ) [A]
  48. Oxford English Texts (1912- ) [A]
  49. Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- ) [A]
  50. Penguin English Poets (1971-1983) [A]
  51. Penguin Modern European Poets (1958-1984) [M]
  52. Penguin Modern Poets (1962-1983) [M]
  53. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [A] [M]
  54. Poetry New Zealand (1951-2022) [B] [M]
  55. Psychogeography [M]
  56. The Reynard Library (1950-71) [A]
  57. Russian Foreign Languages Publishing House (1946-64) [M]
  58. Scottish Poets (1425- ) [A]
  59. Sir John Lubbock's 100 Books (1887) [M]
  60. World War I Poets (1914-18) [A] [M]
  61. World War I Novels (1918-38) [M]
  62. World War II Anthologies (1939-45) [A]
  63. World War II Novels (1948-83) [M]



Sources:
Books I'd Like to Own
Acquisitions
Advanced Fiction Writing
Contemporary NZ Writers
Cross-Genre Writing
The Imaginary Museum
NZ Speculative Fiction
Bibliographies (Alphabetical)


  1. American:

    1. Machado de Assis (1839-1908)
    2. Russell Banks (1940-2023)
    3. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)
    4. Truman Capote (1924-1984) [I]
    5. Michael Chabon (1963- ) [I]
    6. Lydia Davis (1947- ) [I]
    7. Joan Didion (1934-2021)
    8. John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
    9. Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
    10. Jonathan Franzen (1959- )
    11. William Gaddis (1922-1998)
    12. Wilson Harris (1921-2018)
    13. Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
    14. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
    15. Samuel Hynes (1924–2019)
    16. Jack London (1876-1916)
    17. David McCullough (1933-2022)
    18. Norman Mailer (1923-2007) [II]
    19. Janet Malcolm (1934-2021)
    20. W. H. Porter ['O. Henry'] (1862-1910)
    21. John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
    22. Irving Stone (1903-1989)
    23. William Styron (1925-2006)
    24. Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
    25. James Thurber (1894-1961)
    26. Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)
    27. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972)
    28. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
    29. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) [I]

  2. Asian:

    1. Abe Kōbō (1924-1993)
    2. Dazai Osamu (1909-1948)
    3. Endō Shūsaku (1923-1996)
    4. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
    5. Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972)
    6. Mishima Yukio (1925-1970)
    7. Murakami Haruki (1949- )
    8. Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916)
    9. Ōe Kenzaburō (1935- )
    10. Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (1886-1965)
    11. Yoshimoto Banana (1964- )

  3. Australasian:

    1. James K. Baxter (1926-1972)
    2. Maurice Duggan (1922-1974)
    3. Janet Frame (1924–2004)
    4. Maurice Gee (1931- )
    5. Russell Haley (1934-2016)
    6. Craig Harrison (1942- ) [I]
    7. Jan Kemp (1949- )
    8. Maurice Shadbolt (1932-2004)
    9. C. K. Stead (1932- ) [I]
    10. T. G. H. Strehlow (1908–1978)
    11. Albert Wendt (1939– ) [I]
    12. Patrick White (1912-1990)

  4. British:

    1. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
    2. R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900)
    3. George Borrow (1803-1881)
    4. Richard F. Burton (1821-1890)
    5. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) [I]
    6. Lord David Cecil (1902-1986)
    7. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) [I]
    8. George Eliot (1819-1880)
    9. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000)
    10. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
    11. C. S. Forester (1899-1966)
    12. John Fowles (1926-2005)
    13. Graham Greene (1904-1991)
    14. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
    15. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
    16. James Joyce (1882-1941)
    17. Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982)
    18. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
    19. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
    20. John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)
    21. T. F. Powys (1875-1953)
    22. Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939)
    23. John Prebble (1915-2001)
    24. Mary Renault (1905-1983)
    25. Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) (1860–1913)
    26. W. M. Thackeray (1811-1863)
    27. Henry Torrens (1806–1852)
    28. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
    29. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
    30. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969)
    31. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
    32. Frances A. Yates (1899-1981)

  5. European & Russian:

    1. Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)
    2. Karen Blixen ['Isak Dinesen'] (1885-1962)
    3. Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
    4. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
    5. Albert Camus (1913-1960)
    6. Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
    7. Günter Grass (1927-2015)
    8. Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
    9. Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
    10. Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)
    11. Stanisław Lem (1921-2006)
    12. Primo Levi (1919-1987)
    13. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [I]
    14. Robert Musil (1880-1942)
    15. Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) [I]
    16. Georges Perec (1936-1982)
    17. W. G. Sebald (1944-2001)
    18. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
    19. George Steiner (1929–2020)
    20. Stendhal (1783–1842)

  6. Fantasy:

    1. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
    2. Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
    3. Peter Dickinson (1927-2015)
    4. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
    5. Neil Gaiman (1960- )
    6. Alan Garner (1934- )
    7. Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
    8. William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
    9. Margaret Irwin (1889–1967)
    10. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    11. George MacDonald (1824-1905)
    12. William Mayne (1928-2010)
    13. E. Nesbit (1858-1924)
    14. Tim Powers (1952- )
    15. Mary Stewart (1916-2014)
    16. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
    17. T. H. White (1906-1964)

  7. Ghost Stories & Mysteries:

    1. Robert Aickman (1914-1981)
    2. Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) [I]
    3. John Buchan (1875-1940)
    4. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
    5. F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909)
    6. Edmund Crispin (1921-1978)
    7. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
    8. Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989)
    9. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972)
    10. Susan Hill (1942- )
    11. M. R. James (1862-1936) [I]
    12. J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)
    13. Oliver Onions (1873-1961)
    14. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)
    15. Iain Sinclair (1943- )
    16. Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
    17. Montague Summers (1880-1948)
    18. H. Russell Wakefield (1888-1964)

  8. Poetry:

    1. W. H. Auden (1907-1973) [I]
    2. John Berryman (1914-1972)
    3. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
    4. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
    5. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
    6. Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883)
    7. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [I]
    8. Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016)
    9. Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
    10. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
    11. Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
    12. Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
    13. John Masefield (1878-1967)
    14. William Morris (1834–1896)
    15. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
    16. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
    17. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [I]
    18. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
    19. D. M. Thomas (1935- )
    20. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
    21. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [I]
    22. R. S. Thomas (1913-2000)
    23. Helen Waddell (1889-1965)
    24. Arthur Waley (1889-1966)

  9. SF:

    1. Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
    2. J. G. Ballard (1930-2009)
    3. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) [I]
    4. John Christopher (1922-2012)
    5. Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
    6. Samuel R. Delany (1942- )
    7. Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
    8. Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
    9. Frank Herbert (1920-1986)
    10. Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)
    11. Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923-1996)
    12. Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [I]
    13. Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
    14. H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
    15. Gene Wolfe (1931-2019)
    16. John Wyndham (1903-1969)

  10. Sets I'd Like to Complete:

    1. The Brontë Sisters (1816–1855; 1818–1848; 1820–1849): The Works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë (12 vols - 1893-96)
    2. Lord Byron (1788-1824): Letters and Journals (13 vols - 1973-94)
    3. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731): The Shakespeare Head Edition of the the Novels and Selected Writings (14 vols - 1927-28 / 12 vols - 1974)
    4. Charles Dickens (1812-1870): The 'Daily News' Memorial Edition (19 vols - 1900-1910)
    5. The Muses' Library: First Series (26 vols - 1891-1940) / Second Series (16 vols - 1949-1980)
    6. Poetry New Zealand: Poetry New Zealand (6 vols - 1970-84) / Poetry NZ (48 vols - 1990-2014)
    7. Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Twickenham Edition (11 vols - 1940-1969)
    8. Marcel Proust (1871-1922): Selected Letters (4 vols - 1983-2000)
    9. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): Collected Essays (6 vols - 1986-2009)
    10. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939): The Collected Works (14 vols - 1983-2015)




Su Blackwell: The Book Collector (2018)


  1. Authors:

    1. Henry Adams (1838-1918)
    2. Richard Aldington (1892-1962)
    3. Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002)
    4. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
    5. John Ashbery (1927-2017)
    6. Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974)
    7. Owen Barfield (1898-1997)
    8. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) [I]
    9. Antony Beevor (1946- )
    10. Ted Berrigan (1934-1983)
    11. John Betjeman (1906-1984)
    12. Edmund Blunden (1896-1974)
    13. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) [III]
    14. Joe Brainard (1942-1994)
    15. Ernest Bramah (1868-1942)
    16. Katharine M. Briggs (1898-1980) [I]
    17. Katharine M. Briggs (1898–1980) [II]
    18. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
    19. Fanny Burney (1752-1840)
    20. William Burroughs (1914-1997)
    21. Lord Byron (1788-1824)
    22. Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005)
    23. Julius Caesar (c.100–44 BCE)
    24. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) [II]
    25. Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
    26. Roger Casement (1864-1916)
    27. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [III]
    28. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
    29. Winston Churchill (1874-1965) [II]
    30. John Clare (1793-1864) [I]
    31. Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674)
    32. Susanna Clark (1959- )
    33. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
    34. Susan Cooper (1935- )
    35. Julio Cortázar (1914-1984)
    36. James Cowan (1870-1943)
    37. Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
    38. John Crowley (1942- )
    39. Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731)
    40. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
    41. José Donoso (1924-1996)
    42. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
    43. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) [II]
    44. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    45. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
    46. Shelby Foote (1916-2005)
    47. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
    48. Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012)
    49. Paul Fussell (1924-2012)
    50. Neil Gaiman (1960- )
    51. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) [II]
    52. Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca (1539-1616)
    53. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
    54. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
    55. Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
    56. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [II]
    57. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [III]
    58. Lady Gregory (1852-1932)
    59. Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
    60. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
    61. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
    62. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
    63. Max Hastings (1945- )
    64. Hergé (1907-1983)
    65. Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BCE)
    66. Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)
    67. Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913)
    68. David Howarth (1912-1991)
    69. W. H. Hudson (1841-1922)
    70. T. E. Hulme (1883-1917)
    71. John Hunt (1910-1998)
    72. Washington Irving (1783-1859)
    73. Henry James (1843-1916) [III]
    74. M. R. James (1862-1936) [II]
    75. David Jones (1895-1974)
    76. John Keats (1795-1821)
    77. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
    78. Stephen King (1947- )
    79. Stephen King's Dark Tower (2007-2017)
    80. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
    81. Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)
    82. Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979)
    83. Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
    84. Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
    85. Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917)
    86. Michele Leggott (1956- )
    87. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    88. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) [I]
    89. C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) [II]
    90. W. H. Lewis (1895-1973)
    91. Abraham Lincoln(1809-1965)
    92. Deborah Lipstadt (1947- )
    93. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
    94. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937)
    95. Luo Guanzhong (c.1330–1400 or c.1280–1360)
    96. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
    97. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)
    98. George Mallory (1886-1924)
    99. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [II]
    100. George R. R. Martin (1948- )
    101. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
    102. John Masefield (1878-1967)
    103. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [I]
    104. Alan Moore (1953- )
    105. Ward Moore (1903-1978)
    106. John L. Motley (1814-1877)
    107. Murasaki Shikibu (c.973-c.1014/25)
    108. Les Murray (1938-2019)
    109. Peter F. Neumeyer (1929- )
    110. Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986)
    111. Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)
    112. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
    113. George Orwell (1903-1950) [II]
    114. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
    115. Francis Parkman (1823-1893)
    116. John Payne (1842-1916)
    117. Patrick Pearse (1879-1916)
    118. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [I]
    119. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
    120. William H. Prescott (1796-1859)
    121. Harry Price (1881-1948)
    122. Manuel Puig (1932-1990)
    123. Herbert Read (1893-1968)
    124. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005)
    125. Keith Roberts (1935-2000)
    126. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
    127. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986)
    128. Damon Runyon (1880-1946)
    129. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974)
    130. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)
    131. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [II]
    132. James Schuyler (1923-1991)
    133. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [I]
    134. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [II]
    135. Shi Nai'an (c.1296-1372)
    136. Eric Shipton (1907-1977)
    137. Frank Smythe (1900-1949)
    138. Charles Sorley (1895-1915)
    139. Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014)
    140. James Stephens (1880-1950) [I]
    141. James Stephens (1882-1950) [II]
    142. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
    143. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
    144. Tacitus (c.56–c.120)
    145. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [II]
    146. Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE)
    147. H. W. Tilman (1898-1977)
    148. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
    149. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [I]
    150. Mark Twain (1837-1910)
    151. Jack Vance (1916-2013)
    152. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- )
    153. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
    154. A. P. Wavell (1883-1950)
    155. Charles Williams (1886-1945)
    156. Tad Williams (1957- )
    157. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
    158. Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582)
    159. W. B. Yeats (1865-1938) [I]
    160. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) [II]

  2. Series & Themes:

    1. Alternate Histories (1953-2011)
    2. American Civil War (1861-1865) [II]
    3. Ancient Indian Epics
    4. The Arabian Nights in Spanish (1934-2016)
    5. The Bible [II]
    6. The Bodley Head Editions (1958-1994)
    7. British Ballads (1765- )
    8. Children's Poetry Books (1789- )
    9. Clarkson N. Potter Annotated Editions (1960-1986)
    10. The Classic Chinese Novel [III]
    11. The Classic Chinese Novel [IV]
    12. D-Day (6 June, 1944)
    13. Easter 1916
    14. Eighteenth Century Books
    15. Faerie
    16. The Folio Society (1947- ) [I]
    17. Greek Historians (c.100 BCE-100 CE)
    18. Himalayan Exploration (1921-1953)
    19. Homer (fl. c.800 BCE)
    20. The Icelandic Sagas (1960-2002) [I]
    21. The Icelandic Sagas (1997) [II]
    22. The Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- )
    23. Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s)
    24. The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860)
    25. The Loeb Classics (1912- )
    26. Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- )
    27. Napoleon (1769-1821)
    28. The New York School of Poets
    29. New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021)
    30. Noah's Ark]
    31. The Nonesuch Library (1927-77)
    32. Norton Annotated Editions (2000- )
    33. Omnibuses (1930-1985)
    34. Oxford Books of Verse (1900- )
    35. Oxford English Texts (1912- )
    36. Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- )
    37. Penguin English Poets (1971-1983)
    38. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [II]
    39. The Reynard Library (1950-71)
    40. Scottish Poets (1425- )
    41. World War I Poets (1914-18) [II]
    42. World War II Anthologies (1939-45)


  1. Authors:

    1. Kathy Acker (c.1944-1997) [II]
    2. Martin Armstrong (1882-1974) [II]
    3. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) [II]
    4. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) [II]
    5. Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) [II]
    6. Jerome W. Clinton (1937-2003)
    7. Tim Corballis (1971- )
    8. Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
    9. Breton Dukes
    10. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) [I]
    11. Heinz Grotzfeld
    12. Husain Haddawy
    13. Andras Hamori
    14. Josef Horovitz (1974-1931)
    15. Witi Ihimaera (1944- )
    16. Roman Jakobson (1896–1982)
    17. M. R. James (1862-1936) [III]
    18. Abdelfattah Kilito (1945- )
    19. Edward W. Lane (1801-1876)
    20. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    21. Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006)
    22. Muhsin Mahdi (1926-2007)
    23. David Pinault
    24. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
    25. Harold Robbins (1916-1997)
    26. Jack Ross (1962- )
    27. Tina Shaw (1961- )
    28. Alice Tawhai
    29. Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017)
    30. H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

  2. Series & Themes:

    1. The 1001 Nights




NZ Official Yearbook: If New Zealand was in Europe (1919)


  1. Authors:

    1. Anne Carson (1950- ) [II]
    2. Fiona Farrell (1947- )
    3. Michael Harlow (1930- )
    4. Susan Howe (1937- ) [II]
    5. Michele Leggott (1956- )
    6. Graham Lindsay (1952- )
    7. Paul Muldoon (1951- )
    8. Peter Reading (1946-2011)
    9. Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
    10. Ian Wedde (1946- )


  1. Authors:

    1. Kathy Acker (1947-1997) [I]
    2. Martin Armstrong (1882-1974) [I]
    3. W. H. Auden (1907-1973) [II]
    4. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) [I]
    5. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
    6. William Blake (1757-1827)
    7. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) [I]
    8. Truman Capote (1924-1984) [II]
    9. Anne Carson (1950- ) [I]
    10. Michael Chabon (1963- ) [II]
    11. Lydia Davis (1947- ) [II]
    12. Martin Edmond (1952- )
    13. Susan Howe (1937- ) [I]
    14. Robin Hyde (1906-1939)
    15. Lynn Jenner (1955- )
    16. Donald Keene (1922-2019)
    17. Leicester Kyle (1937-2006)
    18. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)
    19. Olivia Macassey (1975- )
    20. Norman Mailer (1923-2007) [I]
    21. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) [II]
    22. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
    23. Michael Ondaatje (1943- )
    24. Sei Shōnagon (c.966–1017)
    25. Dennis Tedlock (1939-2016)
    26. Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) [II]
    27. Richard von Sturmer (1957- )
    28. Tom Wolfe (1931-2018) [II]

  2. Series & Themes:

    1. The Bible (c.1400-400 BC / c.50-200 AD) [I]


  1. Authors:

    1. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
    2. Martin Amis (1949- )
    3. Geoffrey Ashe (1923-2022)
    4. James Baldwin (1924-1987)
    5. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) [II]
    6. Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) [II]
    7. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) [II]
    8. Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
    9. Branwell Brontë (1817-1848)
    10. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
    11. Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
    12. Alan Brunton (1946-2002)
    13. Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) [I]
    14. Truman Capote (1924-1984)
    15. Orson Scott Card (1951- )
    16. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [I]
    17. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [II]
    18. Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) [I]
    19. John Clare (1793-1864) [II]
    20. Michael Cox (1948-2009)
    21. Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972)
    22. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
    23. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
    24. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    25. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
    26. Constance Garnett (1861-1946)
    27. David Garnett (1892-1981)
    28. Richard Garnett (1923-2013)
    29. William Golding (1911-1993)
    30. Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985)
    31. Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961)
    32. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
    33. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
    34. Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)
    35. E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
    36. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
    37. Henry James (1843-1916) [I]
    38. Henry James (1843-1916) [II]
    39. James Joyce (1882-1941)
    40. Stephen King (1947- )
    41. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    42. T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
    43. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) [I]
    44. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) [I]
    45. Robert Lowell (1917-1977) [II]]
    46. Arthur Machen (1863-1947)
    47. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
    48. Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
    49. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [III]
    50. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [II]
    51. Alice Munro (1931–2024)
    52. John Julius Norwich (1929–2018)
    53. Zoë Oldenbourg (1916–2002)
    54. George Orwell (1903-1950) [I]
    55. Hershel Parker (1935- )
    56. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [II]
    57. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
    58. Pu Songling (1640-1715)
    59. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)
    60. Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
    61. Steven Runciman (1903-2000)
    62. Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
    63. Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [II]
    64. Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
    65. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
    66. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [II]
    67. Robert van Gulik (1910-1967)
    68. Jules Verne (1828-1905)
    69. Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
    70. Rex Warner (1905-1986)
    71. Tad Williams (1957- )
    72. Colin Wilson (1931-2013)
    73. Herman Wouk (1915-2019)
    74. Yuan Mei (1716–1797)

  2. Series & Themes:

    1. American Civil War (1861-1865) [I]
    2. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (1931- )
    3. The Bounty (1789- )
    4. Britannica Great Books of the Western World (1952)
    5. The Brontës
    6. Chinese Ghost Stories
    7. The Classic Chinese Novel [I]
    8. The Classic Chinese Novel [II]
    9. Fairy Tales (1697- )
    10. The Folio Society (1947- ) [II]
    11. Kalila and Dimna (c.800 BCE)
    12. The Library of America (1979- )
    13. Penguin Modern European Poets (1958-1984)
    14. Penguin Modern Poets (1962-1983)
    15. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [I]
    16. Psychogeography
    17. Russian Foreign Languages Publishing House (1946-64)
    18. Sir John Lubbock's 100 Books (1887)
    19. World War I Poets (1914-18) [I]
    20. World War I & II Novels (1918-83)




Geoff Murphy, dir. The Quiet Earth (1985)


  1. Authors:

    1. Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
    2. Nigel Cox (1951-2006)
    3. John Cranna (1954- )
    4. Bill Direen (1957- )
    5. Philip Gluckman (1954- )
    6. Craig Harrison (1942- ) [II]
    7. Henry Honor ('The Inhabitant')
    8. Dylan Horrocks (1966- )
    9. Mike Johnson (1947- )
    10. M. K. Joseph (1914-1981)
    11. Elizabeth Knox (1959- )
    12. Phillip Mann (1942-2022)
    13. Rosie Scott (1948-2017)
    14. C. K. Stead (1932- ) [II]
    15. Philip Temple (1939- )
    16. Rhydian Thomas
    17. Julius Vogel (1835-1899)
    18. Albert Wendt (1939- ) [II]
    19. Summer Wigmore (2013- )

  2. Series & Themes:

    1. NZSF Chronology (1863-2020)








2 comments:

  1. This was great! I had been unlucky in finding out what the volumes XI and XIV of W.B. Yeats' works constituted, and now you've help me complete the list. Still, it seems 3 years later XIV is still in tba status.

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  2. Just so. Neither of those two volumes seems to have come out yet -- I filled them in from the contents lists on some of the published volumes (accessible on Amazon.com).

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