A Gentle Madness: Bibliographies

Sunday

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]

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Famous Authors

Authors:

Kōbō Abe (1924-1993) [B]
Kathy Acker (c.1944-1997) [C] [F]
Henry Adams (1838-1918) [A]
Robert Aickman (1914-1981) [B]
Richard Aldington (1892-1962) [A]
Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) [A]
Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) [A] [M]
Martin Amis (1949- ) [M]
Martin Armstrong (1882-1974) [C] [F]
Geoffrey Ashe (1923-2022) [M]
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) [B] [M]
Machado de Assis (1839-1908) [B]
Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974) [A]
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) [A] [B] [C] [M1] M2] [M3]

James Baldwin (1924-1987) [M]
J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) [B] [M]
Russell Banks (1940-2023) [B]
Owen Barfield (1898-1997) [A]
Roland Barthes (1915-1980) [C] [F]
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) [C]
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) [A] [M]
James K. Baxter (1926-1972) [B]
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) [B]
Antony Beevor (1946-) [A]
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) [B]
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) [B]
R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900) [B]
Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) [B] [M]
William Blake (1757-1827) [C]
Karen Blixen ['Isak Dinesen'] (1885-1962) [B]
Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) [A]
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) [A] [C] [F]
George Borrow (1803-1881) [B] [M]
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) [B] [M]
Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) [A]
Katharine M. Briggs (1898-1980) [A1 [A2]
Anne Brontë (1820-1849) [M]
Branwell Brontë (1817-1848) [M]
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) [M]
Emily Brontë (1818-1848) [M]
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) [A]
Alan Brunton (1946-2002) [M]
John Buchan (1875-1940) [B]
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) [B]
Fanny Burney (1752-1840) [A]
William Burroughs (1914-1997) [A]
Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) [B] [F] [M]
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) [N]
Lord Byron (1788-1824) [A] [B]

Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005) [A]
Julius Caesar (c.100–44 BCE) [A]
Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) [B]
Albert Camus (1913-1960) [B]
Truman Capote (1924-1984) [B] [C] [M]
Orson Scott Card (1951- ) [M]
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) [A] [B]
Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) [A]
Anne Carson (1950- ) [C] [CNZ]
Paul Celan (1920-1970) [A] [M1] [M2]
Michael Chabon (1963- ) [A] [B] [C] [O]
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) [A]
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) [B] [M]
John Christopher (1922-2012) [B]
Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) [A] [M]
John Clare (1793-1864) [A] [M]
Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) [A]
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) [B] [M]
Susanna Clark (1959- ) [A]
Jerome W. Clinton (1937-2003) [F]
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) [A]
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) [B] [M]
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) [B] [M]
Susan Cooper (1935- ) [A]
Tim Corballis (1971- ) [F]
Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) [A]
James Cowan (1870-1943) [A]
Michael Cox (1948-2009) [M]
Nigel Cox (1951-2006) [N]
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) [A]
John Cranna (1954- ) [N]
F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909) [B]
Edmund Crispin (1921-1978) [B]
John Crowley (1942- ) [A]

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

Martin Edmond (1952- ) [C]
Shūsaku Endō (1923-1996) [B]

Fiona Farrell (1947- ) [CNZ]
William Faulkner (1897-1962) [A] [M]
Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883) [B]
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) [A]
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) [B]
Shelby Foote (1916-2005) [A]
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) [A]
C. S. Forester (1899-1966) [B]
John Fowles (1926-2005) [B]
Janet Frame (1924–2004) [B]
Jonathan Franzen (1959- ) [B] [O]
Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012) [A]

William Gaddis (1922-1998) [B]
Neil Gaiman (1960- ) [A] [B] [M]
Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) [A] [F]
Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca (1539-1616) [A]
Alan Garner (1934- ) [B] [M]
Maurice Gee (1931- ) [B]
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) [A]
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) [A]
Philip Gluckman (1954- ) [N]
William Golding (1911-1993) [M]
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) [B] [M]
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) [B]
Günter Grass (1927-2015) [B]
Robert Graves (1895-1985) [A1] [A2] (1895-1985) [B] [M]
Graham Greene (1904-1991) [B] [M]
Lady Gregory (1852-1932) [A]
Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) [M]
Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) [A]
Heinz Grotzfeld [F]
Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) [A]

Husain Haddawy [F]
H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) [A]
Russell Haley (1934-2016) [B] [M]
Andras Hamori [F]
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) [A]
Michael Harlow (1930- ) [CNZ]
Wilson Harris (1921-2018) [B]
Craig Harrison (1942- ) [B] [M] [N]
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972) [B]
Max Hastings (1945- ) [A]
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) [M]
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) [B]
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) [B] [M]
Joseph Heller (1923-1999) [B]
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) [B]
O. Henry (1862-1910) [B]
Frank Herbert (1920-1986) [B] [M]
Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BCE) [A]
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) [B] [M]
Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016) [B]
Susan Hill (1942- ) [B]
Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913) [A]
William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) [B]
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) [M]
Henry Honor [N]
Josef Horovitz (1974-1931) [F]
Dylan Horrocks (1966- ) [N]
David Howarth (1912-1991) [A]
Susan Howe (1937- ) [C] [CNZ]
Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) [B]
W. H. Hudson (1841-1922) [A]
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) [B] [M]
T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) [A]
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) [A] [B]
Robin Hyde (1906-1939) [C]

Witi Ihimaera (1944- ) [F]
Washington Irving (1783-1859) [A]
Margaret Irwin (1889–1967) [B] [M]

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

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) [B] [M]
Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) [B]
John Keats (1795-1821) [A]
Donald Keene (1922-2019) [C]
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) [A]
Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982) [B]
Abdelfattah Kilito (1945- ) [F]
Stephen King (1947- ) [A1] [A2] [A3] [M]
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) [B] [M]
Elizabeth Knox (1959- ) [N]
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) [B] [M]
Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979) [A]
Leicester Kyle (1937-2006) [C] [The Collected Poems of Leicester Hugo Kyle]

Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828) [A]
Edward W. Lane (1801-1876) [F]
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) [B]
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) [B]
Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917) [A]
J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) [B] [M]
Michele Leggott (1956- ) [A] [CNZ] [Michele 2021]
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) [A] [B] [F] [M]
Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) [B] [F] [M]
Primo Levi (1919-1987) [B] [M]
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) [C]
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) [A] [A2]
W. H. Lewis (1895-1973) [A]
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) [B]
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1965) [A]
Graham Lindsay (1952- ) [CNZ]
Jack London (1876-1916) [B]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) [A]
H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) [A [M]
Robert Lowell (1917–1977) [B] [M1] [M2]
Luo Guanzhong (c.1330–1400 or c.1280–1360) [A]

Olivia Macassey (1975- ) [C]
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) [A]
Arthur Machen (1863-1947) [M]
David McCullough (1933-2022) [B]
George MacDonald (1824-1905) [B] [M]
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) [M]
Muhsin Mahdi (1926-2007) [F]
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) [B] [C]
Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) [B] [M]
Phillip Mann (1942-2022) [N]
Thomas Mann (1948- ) [A] [B] [M]
George R. R. Martin (1948- ) [A]
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) [A]
John Masefield (1878-1967) [A] [B] [M] [MA Thesis: John Masefield]
William Mayne (1928-2010) [B]
Herman Melville (1819-1891) [A] [M]
Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923-1996) [B] [M]
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) [B]
Ward Moore (1912-1991) [A]
William Morris (1834–1896) [B]
John L. Motley (1814-1877) [A]
Paul Muldoon (1951- ) [CNZ]
Haruki Murakami (1949- ) [B]
Lady Murasaki (c.973-c.1014/25) [A]
Les Murray (1938-2019) [A]
Robert Musil (1880-1942) [B] [M]

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) [A] [B] [C] [M]
Sōseki Natsume (1867-1916) [B]
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) [B] [M]
E. Nesbit (1858-1924) [B]
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) [C]

Kenzaburō Ōe (1935- ) [B]
Michael Ondaatje (1943- ) [C]
Oliver Onions (1873-1961) [B]
George Orwell (1903-1950) [A] [M]
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) [A]

Hershel Parker (1935- ) [M]
Francis Parkman (1823-1893) [A]
John Payne (1842-1916) [A]
Georges Perec (1936-1982) [B] [M]
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [A] [M]
David Pinault [F]
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) [B]
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) [F] [M]
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) [A] [B]
Tim Powers (1952- ) [B] [M]
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) [B] [M]
T. F. Powys (1875-1953) [B]
Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939) [B]
John Prebble (1915-2001) [B]
William H. Prescott (1796-1859) [A]
Harry Price (1881-1948) [A]
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) [B] [M]
Manuel Puig (1932-1990) [A]

Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) [M]
Herbert Read (1893-1968) [A]
Peter Reading (1946-2011) [CNZ]
Mary Renault (1905-1983) [B]
Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005) [A]
Keith Roberts (1935-2000) [A]
Michael Roberts (1902-1948) [M]
Harold Robbins (1916-1997) [F]
Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) (1860–1913) [B]
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) [A]
Jack Ross (1962- ) [F]
Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) [A]
Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) [A]

Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) [A]
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [A] [B] [M]
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) [B] [M]
Rosie Scott (1948-2017) [N]
W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) [A][B] [M]
Sei Shōnagon (c.966–1017) [C]
Maurice Shadbolt (1932-2004) [B]
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [A1] [A2]
Tina Shaw (1961- ) [F]
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) [M]
Shi Nai'an (c.1296-1372) [A]
Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [B]
Iain Sinclair (1943- ) [B] [M]
Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) [B]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) [A] [B]
Charles Sorley (1895-1915) [A]
Stephen Spender (1909-1995) [M]
Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014) [A]
C. K. Stead (1932- ) [B] [N]
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) [B]
George Steiner (1929–2020) [B]
Stendhal (1783–1842) [B]
James Stephens (1880-1950) [A]
John L. Stephens (1805-1852) [A] [M]
Mary Stewart (1916-2014) [B]
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) [B] [M]
Irving Stone (1903-1989) [B]
T. G. H. Strehlow (1908–1978) [B]
William Styron (1925-2006) [B]
Montague Summers (1880-1948) [B]

Tacitus (c.56–c.120) [A]
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965) [B]
Alice Tawhai [F]
Dennis Tedlock (1939-2016) [C]
Philip Temple (1939- ) [N]
W. M. Thackeray (1811-1863) [B]
D. M. Thomas (1935- ) [B]
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) [B] [M]
Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [A] [B] [M]
Rhydian Thomas [N]
R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) [B] [M]
Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) [B] [C]
Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE) [A]
James Thurber (1894-1961) [B]
Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017) [F]
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) [A]
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [A] [M]
Henry Torrens (1806–1852) [B] [M]
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) [B]
Mark Twain (1837-1910) [A]

Jack Vance (1916-2013) [A]
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- ) [A]
Jules Verne (1828-1905) [M1] [M2]
Gore Vidal (1925-2012) [M]
Julius Vogel (1835-1899) [N]
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) [B]
Richard von Sturmer (1957- ) [C]

Helen Waddell (1889-1965) [B]
H. Russell Wakefield (1888-1964) [B]
Derek Walcott (1930-2017) [CNZ]
Arthur Waley (1889-1966) [B] [M]
Rex Warner (1905-1986) [M]
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) [A] [B]
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) [B]
Ian Wedde (1946- ) [CNZ]
H. G. Wells (1866-1946) [B] [F] [M]
Albert Wendt (1939– ) [B] [M] [N]
Patrick White (1912-1990) [B]
T. H. White (1906-1964) [B]
Summer Wigmore (2013- ) [N]
Charles Williams (1886-1945) [A]
Tad Williams (1957- ) [A] [M]
Colin Wilson (1931-2013) [M]
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) [B]
P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) [B]
Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) [B] [M]
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) [B]
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) [B] [C]
Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) [B]
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) [B]
Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582) [A]
John Wyndham (1903-1969) [B]

Frances A. Yates (1899-1981) [B] [M]
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) [A] [B]
Banana Yoshimoto (1964- ) [B]

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Robert Alter: The Hebrew Bible (2019)

Series & Themes:

Alternate Histories (1953-2011) [A]
American Civil War (1861-1865) [A] [M]
Ancient Indian Epics [A]
Arabian Nights Bibliography (1704-2016) [F] [Scheherazade's Web]
Arabian Nights Chronology (800-2016) [Scheherazade's Web]
Arabian Nights Concordance (1704-1990) [Scheherazade's Web]
The Arabian Nights in Spanish (1934-2016) [A]
The Bible (c.1400-400 BC / c.50-200 AD) [A] [C]
Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (1931- ) [M]
The Bodley Head Editions (1958-1994) [A]
Britannica Great Books of the Western World (1952) [M]
British Ballads (1765- ) [A]
The Brontës [B] [M1] [M2]
Clarkson N. Potter Annotated Editions (1960-1986) [A]
The Classic Chinese Novel [A1] [A2] [M1] [M2] [O]
D-Day (6 June, 1944) [A]
Eighteenth Century Books [A]
Faerie [A]
Fairy Tales (1697- ) [M]
The Folio Society (1947- ) [A] [M]
Greek Historians (c.100 BCE-100 CE) [A]
The Hakluyt Society (1846- ) [A]
Homer (fl. c.800 BCE) [A]
The Icelandic Sagas (1960-2002) [A1] (1997) [A2]
Kalila and Dimna (c.800 BCE) [M]
The Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- ) [A]
Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s) [A]
The Library of America (1979- ) [M]
The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860) [A]
Lives of the Novelists (2011) [A]
The Loeb Classics (1912- ) [A]
Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- ) [A]
The Muses' Library: 1st Series (26 vols - 1891-1940) / 2nd Series (16 vols - 1949-1980) [B]
Napoleon (1769-1821) [A]
New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021) [A]
NZSF Chronology (1863-2020) [N]
The Nonesuch Library (1927-77) [A]
Norton Annotated Editions (2000- ) [A]
Omnibuses (1930-1985) [A]
Oxford Books of Verse (1900- ) [A]
Oxford English Texts (1912- ) [A]
Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- ) [A]
Penguin English Poets (1971-1983) [A]
Penguin Modern European Poets (1958-1984) [M]
Penguin Modern Poets (1962-1983) [M]
Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [A] [M]
Poetry New Zealand (1951-2022) [B] [M]
The Reynard Library (1950-71) [A]
Russian Foreign Languages Publishing House (1946-64) [M]
Scottish Poets (1425- ) [A]
Sir John Lubbock's 100 Books (1887) [M]
World War I Poets (1914-18) [A] [M]

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Compelling First Lines of Famous Books

Bibliographies

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)

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Shakespeare & Co. (Paris)

Books I'd Like to Own

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. Jack London (1876-1916)
16. David McCullough (1933-2022)
17. Norman Mailer (1923-2007) [II]
18. Janet Malcolm (1934-2021)
19. W. H. Porter ['O. Henry'] (1862-1910)
20. John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
21. Irving Stone (1903-1989)
22. William Styron (1925-2006)
23. Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
24. James Thurber (1894-1961)
25. Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)
26. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972)
27. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
28. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) [I]

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- )

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. Maurice Shadbolt (1932-2004)
8. C. K. Stead (1932- ) [I]
9. T. G. H. Strehlow (1908–1978)
10. Albert Wendt (1939– ) [I]
11. Patrick White (1912-1990)

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. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) [I]
7. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000)
8. C. S. Forester (1899-1966)
9. John Fowles (1926-2005)
10. Graham Greene (1904-1991)
11. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
12. James Joyce (1882-1941)
13. Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982)
14. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
15. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
16. John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)
17. T. F. Powys (1875-1953)
18. Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939)
19. John Prebble (1915-2001)
20. Mary Renault (1905-1983)
21. Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) (1860–1913)
22. W. M. Thackeray (1811-1863)
23. Henry Torrens (1806–1852)
24. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
25. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
26. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969)
27. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
28. Frances A. Yates (1899-1981)

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)

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)

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)

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

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- )
13. Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
14. H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
15. Gene Wolfe (1931-2019)
16. John Wyndham (1903-1969)

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)

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Su Blackwell: The Book Collector (2018)

Acquisitions

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

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. Clarkson N. Potter Annotated Editions (1960-1986)
9. The Classic Chinese Novel [III]
10. The Classic Chinese Novel [IV]
11. D-Day (6 June, 1944)
12. Eighteenth Century Books
13. Faerie
14. The Folio Society (1947- ) [I]
15. Greek Historians (c.100 BCE-100 CE)
16. Homer (fl. c.800 BCE)
17. The Icelandic Sagas (1960-2002) [I]
18. The Icelandic Sagas (1997) [II]
19. The Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- )
20. Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s)
21. The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860)
22. The Loeb Classics (1912- )
23. Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- )
24. Napoleon (1769-1821)
25. New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021)
26. The Nonesuch Library (1927-77)
27. Norton Annotated Editions (2000- )
28. Omnibuses (1930-1985)
29. Oxford Books of Verse (1900- )
30. Oxford English Texts (1912- )
31. Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- )
32. Penguin English Poets (1971-1983)
33. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [II]
34. The Reynard Library (1950-71)
35. Scottish Poets (1425- )
36. World War I Poets (1914-18) [II]

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Kay Nielsen: Scheherazade

Advanced Fiction Writing

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)

Series & Themes:
1. The 1001 Nights

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

Contemporary NZ Writers

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- )

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Jean Cocteau

Cross-Genre Writing

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]

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

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Crossroads (2008)

The Imaginary Museum

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. William Golding (1911-1993)
26. Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985)
27. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
28. E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
29. Henry James (1862-1936) [I]
30. Henry James (1862-1936) [II]
31. Stephen King (1947- )
32. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
33. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) [I]
34. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) [I]
35. Robert Lowell (1917-1977) [II]]
36. Arthur Machen (1863-1947)
37. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
38. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [II]
39. George Orwell (1903-1950) [I]
40. Hershel Parker (1935- )
41. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [II]
42. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
43. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)
44. Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
45. Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
46. Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
47. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
48. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [II]
49. Jules Verne (1828-1905)
50. Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
51. Rex Warner (1905-1986)
52. Tad Williams (1957- )
53. Colin Wilson (1931-2013)

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

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Geoff Murphy, dir. The Quiet Earth (1985)

NZ Speculative Fiction

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- )

Series & Themes:
1. NZSF Chronology (1863-2020)

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2 comments:

LMR22 March 2013 at 10:55
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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Jack Ross23 March 2013 at 08:50
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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