Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Monday

Acquisitions


Contents:




Note behind counter of local secondhand bookshop
photograph: Michael Steven (2012)













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]



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. Jorge Amado (1912-2001) [B]
  7. Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) [A]
  8. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) [A] [M]
  9. Martin Amis (1949- ) [M]
  10. Hiro Arikawa (1972- ) [A]
  11. Martin Armstrong (1882-1974) [C] [F]
  12. John Ashbery (1927-2017) [A]
  13. Geoffrey Ashe (1923-2022) [M]
  14. Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) [B] [M]
  15. Machado de Assis (1839-1908) [B]
  16. Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974) [A]
  17. W. H. Auden (1907-1973) [A] [B] [C] [M1] M2] [M3]

  18. B

  19. James Baldwin (1924-1987) [M]
  20. J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) [B] [M]
  21. Russell Banks (1940-2023) [B]
  22. Owen Barfield (1898-1997) [A]
  23. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) [C] [F]
  24. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) [C]
  25. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) [A] [M]
  26. James K. Baxter (1926-1972) [B]
  27. Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) [B]
  28. Antony Beevor (1946- ) [A]
  29. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) [B]
  30. E. F. Benson (1867-1940) [B]
  31. Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) [A]
  32. John Berryman (1914-1972) [B]
  33. John Betjeman (1906-1984) [A]
  34. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) [B]
  35. R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900) [B]
  36. Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) [B] [M]
  37. William Blake (1757-1827) [C]
  38. Karen Blixen ['Isak Dinesen'] (1885-1962) [B]
  39. Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) [A]
  40. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) [A] [C] [F]
  41. George Borrow (1803-1881) [B] [M]
  42. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) [B] [M]
  43. Joe Brainard (1942-1994) [A]
  44. Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) [A]
  45. Gerald Brenan (1894-1987) [A]
  46. Katharine M. Briggs (1898-1980) [A1 [A2]
  47. Anne Brontë (1820-1849) [B] [M]
  48. Branwell Brontë (1817-1848) [M]
  49. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) [B] [M]
  50. Emily Brontë (1818-1848) [B] [M]
  51. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) [A]
  52. Alan Brunton (1946-2002) [M]
  53. John Buchan (1875-1940) [A] [B]
  54. Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) [B]
  55. Fanny Burney (1752-1840) [A]
  56. William Burroughs (1914-1997) [A]
  57. Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) [B] [F] [M]
  58. Samuel Butler (1835-1902) [N]
  59. Lord Byron (1788-1824) [A] [B]

  60. C

  61. Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005) [A]
  62. Julius Caesar (c.100–44 BCE) [A]
  63. Italo Calvino (1923-1985) [B]
  64. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) [B]
  65. Albert Camus (1913-1960) [B]
  66. Truman Capote (1924-1984) [B] [C] [M]
  67. Orson Scott Card (1951- ) [M]
  68. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) [A] [B]
  69. Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) [A]
  70. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) [M]
  71. Anne Carson (1950- ) [C] [CNZ]
  72. Roger Casement (1864-1916) [A]
  73. Lord David Cecil (1902-1986) [B]
  74. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [A] [M1] [M2]
  75. Michael Chabon (1963- ) [A] [B] [C] [O]
  76. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) [A]
  77. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) [B] [M]
  78. John Christopher (1922-2012) [B]
  79. Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) [A] [M]
  80. John Clare (1793-1864) [A] [M]
  81. Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) [A]
  82. Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) [B] [M]
  83. Susanna Clark (1959- ) [A]
  84. Jerome W. Clinton (1937-2003) [F]
  85. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) [A]
  86. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) [B] [M]
  87. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) [B] [M]
  88. Susan Cooper (1935- ) [A]
  89. Tim Corballis (1971- ) [F]
  90. Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) [A]
  91. James Cowan (1870-1943) [A]
  92. Michael Cox (1948-2009) [M]
  93. Nigel Cox (1951-2006) [N]
  94. Stephen Crane (1871-1900) [A]
  95. John Cranna (1954- ) [N]
  96. F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909) [B]
  97. Edmund Crispin (1921-1978) [B]
  98. John Crowley (1942- ) [A]

  99. D

  100. Roald Dahl (1916-1990) [B]
  101. W. H. Davies (1871-1940) [A]
  102. Lydia Davis (1947- ) [B] [C] [M]
  103. Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972) [M]
  104. Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) [B]
  105. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) [A] [B]
  106. Christopher de Hamel (1950- ) [A]
  107. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) [B] [M]
  108. Samuel R. Delany (1942- ) [B]
  109. Don DeLillo (1936- ) [B]
  110. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) [A] [M]
  111. Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) [A] [B] [F] [M]
  112. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) [B] [M1] [M2]
  113. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) [M]
  114. Peter Dickinson (1927-2015) [B] [M]
  115. Joan Didion (1934-2021) [B]
  116. Bill Direen (1957- ) [N]
  117. John Dos Passos (1896-1970) [B]
  118. José Donoso (1924-1996) [A]
  119. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) [B] [M]
  120. Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) [B]
  121. Maurice Duggan (1922-1974) [B]
  122. Breton Dukes [F]
  123. Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989) [B]
  124. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) [A] [B]
  125. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) [A] [B]

  126. E

  127. Umberto Eco (1932-2016) [B]
  128. Martin Edmond (1952- ) [C]
  129. George Eliot (1819-1880) [B]
  130. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) [B]
  131. Shūsaku Endō (1923-1996) [B]

  132. F

  133. Fiona Farrell (1947- ) [CNZ]
  134. William Faulkner (1897-1962) [A] [M]
  135. Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883) [B]
  136. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) [A]
  137. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) [B]
  138. Ian Fleming (1908-1964) [A]
  139. Shelby Foote (1916-2005) [A]
  140. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) [A] [B]
  141. C. S. Forester (1899-1966) [B]
  142. Frederick Forsyth (1938- ) [A]
  143. John Fowles (1926-2005) [B]
  144. Janet Frame (1924–2004) [B]
  145. Jonathan Franzen (1959- ) [B] [O]
  146. Ronald Fraser (1930-2012) [A]
  147. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) [M]
  148. Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012) [A]
  149. Paul Fussell (1924-2012) [A]

  150. G

  151. William Gaddis (1922-1998) [B]
  152. Neil Gaiman (1960- ) [A] [B] [M]
  153. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) [A] [F]
  154. Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca (1539-1616) [A]
  155. Alan Garner (1934- ) [B] [M]
  156. Constance Garnett (1861-1946) [M]
  157. David Garnett (1892-1981) [M]
  158. Richard Garnett (1923-2013) [M]
  159. Maurice Gee (1931- ) [B]
  160. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) [A]
  161. Ian Gibson (1939- ) [A]
  162. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) [A]
  163. Philip Gluckman (1954- ) [N]
  164. William Golding (1911-1993) [M]
  165. Edward Gorey (1925-2000) [A] [B] [M]
  166. Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) [B]
  167. Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) [A]
  168. Günter Grass (1927-2015) [B]
  169. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [A1] [A2] [B] [M]
  170. Graham Greene (1904-1991) [A] [B] [M]
  171. Hugh Greene (1910-1987) [A]
  172. Lady Gregory (1852-1932) [A]
  173. Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) [M]
  174. Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) [A]
  175. Heinz Grotzfeld [F]
  176. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) [A]

  177. H

  178. Husain Haddawy [F]
  179. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) [A]
  180. Russell Haley (1934-2016) [B] [M]
  181. Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) [M]
  182. Andras Hamori [F]
  183. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) [A]
  184. Michael Harlow (1930- ) [CNZ]
  185. Wilson Harris (1921-2018) [B]
  186. Craig Harrison (1942- ) [B] [M] [N]
  187. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972) [B]
  188. Max Hastings (1945- ) [A]
  189. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) [M]
  190. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) [B] [M]
  191. Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) [B] [M]
  192. Joseph Heller (1923-1999) [B]
  193. Lillian Hellman (1905–1984) [M]
  194. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) [B]
  195. O. Henry (1862-1910) [B]
  196. Frank Herbert (1920-1986) [B] [M]
  197. Hergé (1907-1983) [A]
  198. Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BCE) [A]
  199. Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) [B] [M]
  200. Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016) [B]
  201. Susan Hill (1942- ) [B]
  202. Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) [A]
  203. Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913) [A]
  204. William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) [B]
  205. E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) [M]
  206. Henry Honor [N]
  207. Josef Horovitz (1974-1931) [F]
  208. Dylan Horrocks (1966- ) [M] [N]
  209. Tony Horwitz (1958-2019) [M]
  210. Geoffrey Household (1900-1988) [A]
  211. David Howarth (1912-1991) [A]
  212. Susan Howe (1937- ) [C] [CNZ]
  213. Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) [B]
  214. W. H. Hudson (1841-1922) [A]
  215. Ted Hughes (1930-1998) [B] [M]
  216. T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) [A]
  217. John Hunt (1910-1998) [A]
  218. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) [A] [B]
  219. Robin Hyde (1906-1939) [C]
  220. Samuel Hynes (1924–2019) [B]

  221. I

  222. Witi Ihimaera (1944- ) [F]
  223. Washington Irving (1783-1859) [A]
  224. Margaret Irwin (1889–1967) [B] [M]
  225. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) [B] [M]

  226. J

  227. Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) [F]
  228. Henry James (1843-1916) [A] [M1] [M2]
  229. M. R. James (1862-1936) [A] [B] [F] [M]
  230. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) [A]
  231. Lynn Jenner (1955- ) [C]
  232. Mike Johnson (1947- ) [N]
  233. David Jones (1895-1974) [A]
  234. M. K. Joseph (1914-1981) [N]
  235. S. T. Joshi (1958- ) [A]
  236. James Joyce (1882-1941) [B] [M]

  237. K

  238. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) [B] [M]
  239. Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) [B]
  240. John Keats (1795-1821) [A]
  241. Donald Keene (1922-2019) [C]
  242. Jan Kemp (1949- ) [B]
  243. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) [A]
  244. Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982) [B]
  245. Abdelfattah Kilito (1945- ) [F]
  246. Francis Kilvert (1840-1879) [A]
  247. Ross King (1962- ) [A]
  248. Stephen King (1947- ) [A1] [A2] [A3] [M]
  249. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) [A] [B] [M]
  250. Elizabeth Knox (1959- ) [N]
  251. Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) [A]
  252. Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) [B] [M]
  253. Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979) [A]
  254. Leicester Kyle (1937-2006) [C] [The Collected Poems of Leicester Hugo Kyle]

  255. L

  256. Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828) [A]
  257. Edward W. Lane (1801-1876) [F]
  258. Philip Larkin (1922-1985) [A] [B]
  259. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) [B]
  260. T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) [M]
  261. John le Carré (1931-2020) [A]
  262. Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917) [A]
  263. J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) [B] [M]
  264. Michele Leggott (1956- ) [A] [CNZ] [Michele 2021]
  265. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) [A] [B] [F] [M]
  266. Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) [B] [F] [M]
  267. Primo Levi (1919-1987) [B] [M]
  268. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) [C]
  269. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) [A] [A2]
  270. W. H. Lewis (1895-1973) [A]
  271. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) [B]
  272. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1965) [A]
  273. Graham Lindsay (1952- ) [CNZ]
  274. Deborah Lipstadt (1947- ) [A]
  275. Jack London (1876-1916) [B]
  276. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) [A]
  277. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) [A [M]
  278. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) [B] [M1] [M2]
  279. Luo Guanzhong (c.1330–1400 or c.1280–1360) [A]

  280. M

  281. Olivia Macassey (1975- ) [C]
  282. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) [A]
  283. Arthur Machen (1863-1947) [M]
  284. David McCullough (1933-2022) [B]
  285. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916) [A]
  286. George MacDonald (1824-1905) [B] [M]
  287. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) [M]
  288. Muhsin Mahdi (1926-2007) [F]
  289. Norman Mailer (1923-2007) [B] [C] [M]
  290. Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) [B] [M]
  291. George Mallory (1886-1924) [A]
  292. Phillip Mann (1942-2022) [N]
  293. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [A] [B] [M]
  294. George R. R. Martin (1948- ) [A]
  295. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) [A]
  296. John Masefield (1878-1967) [A] [B] [M] [MA Thesis: John Masefield]
  297. William Mayne (1928-2010) [B]
  298. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [A] [M]
  299. Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923-1996) [B] [M]
  300. A. A. Milne (1882-1956) [M]
  301. Christopher Milne (1920-1996) [M]
  302. Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) [B]
  303. Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855) [A]
  304. Alan Moore (1953- ) [A]
  305. Ward Moore (1912-1991) [A]
  306. William Morris (1834–1896) [B]
  307. John L. Motley (1814-1877) [A]
  308. Paul Muldoon (1951- ) [CNZ]
  309. Alice Munro (1931–2024) [M]
  310. Haruki Murakami (1949- ) [A] [B]
  311. Lady Murasaki (c.973-c.1014/25) [A]
  312. Les Murray (1938-2019) [A]
  313. Robert Musil (1880-1942) [B] [M]

  314. N

  315. Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) [A] [B] [C] [M]
  316. Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) [A] [B]
  317. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) [B] [M]
  318. E. Nesbit (1858-1924) [B] [M]
  319. Peter F. Neumeyer (1929- ) [A]
  320. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) [C]
  321. Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986)[A]
  322. John Julius Norwich (1929–2018) [M]

  323. O

  324. Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) [A]
  325. Kenzaburō Ōe (1935- ) [B]
  326. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) [A]
  327. Zoé Oldenbourg (1916–2002) [B] [M]
  328. Michael Ondaatje (1943- ) [C]
  329. Oliver Onions (1873-1961) [B]
  330. George Orwell (1903-1950) [A] [M]
  331. Harold Owen (1897-1971) [A]
  332. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) [A]

  333. P

  334. Hershel Parker (1935- ) [M]
  335. Francis Parkman (1823-1893) [A]
  336. John Payne (1842-1916) [A]
  337. Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) [A]
  338. Georges Perec (1936-1982) [B] [M]
  339. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [A] [M]
  340. David Pinault [F]
  341. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) [A] [B]
  342. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) [F] [M]
  343. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) [A] [B]
  344. Tim Powers (1952- ) [B] [M]
  345. John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) [B] [M]
  346. T. F. Powys (1875-1953) [B]
  347. Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939) [B]
  348. John Prebble (1915-2001) [B]
  349. William H. Prescott (1796-1859) [A]
  350. Harry Price (1881-1948) [A]
  351. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) [B] [M]
  352. Pu Songling (1640-1715) [M]
  353. Manuel Puig (1932-1990) [A]

  354. R

  355. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) [M]
  356. Herbert Read (1893-1968) [A]
  357. Peter Reading (1946-2011) [CNZ]
  358. Mary Renault (1905-1983) [B]
  359. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005) [A]
  360. Keith Roberts (1935-2000) [A]
  361. Michael Roberts (1902-1948) [M]
  362. Harold Robbins (1916-1997) [F]
  363. Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) (1860–1913) [B]
  364. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) [A]
  365. Jack Ross (1962- ) [F]
  366. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) [A]
  367. Steven Runciman (1903-2000) [M]
  368. Damon Runyon (1880-1946) [A]
  369. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) [A]

  370. S

  371. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) [A]
  372. J. D. Salinger (1919-2010) [A]
  373. Frank Sargeson (1903-1982) [B]
  374. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [A] [B] [M]
  375. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) [B] [M]
  376. James Schuyler (1923-1991) [A]
  377. Rosie Scott (1948-2017) [N]
  378. W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) [A][B] [M]
  379. Sei Shōnagon (c.966–1017) [C]
  380. Maurice Shadbolt (1932-2004) [B]
  381. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [A1] [A2]
  382. Tina Shaw (1961- ) [F]
  383. Mary Shelley (1797-1851) [M]
  384. Shi Nai'an (c.1296-1372) [A]
  385. Eric Shipton (1907-1977) [A]
  386. Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [B] [M]
  387. Iain Sinclair (1943- ) [B] [M]
  388. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) [B]
  389. Frank Smythe (1900-1949) [A]
  390. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) [A] [B]
  391. Charles Sorley (1895-1915) [A]
  392. Stephen Spender (1909-1995) [M]
  393. Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014) [A]
  394. C. K. Stead (1932- ) [B] [N]
  395. John Steinbeck (1902-1968) [B]
  396. George Steiner (1929–2020) [B]
  397. Stendhal (1783–1842) [B]
  398. James Stephens (1880-1950) [A1] [A2]
  399. John L. Stephens (1805-1852) [A] [M]
  400. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) [A]
  401. Mary Stewart (1916-2014) [B] [M]
  402. Bram Stoker (1847-1912) [B] [M]
  403. Irving Stone (1903-1989) [B]
  404. T. G. H. Strehlow (1908–1978) [B]
  405. William Styron (1925-2006) [B]
  406. Montague Summers (1880-1948) [B]
  407. Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) [M]

  408. T

  409. Tacitus (c.56–c.120) [A]
  410. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965) [B]
  411. Alice Tawhai [F]
  412. Dennis Tedlock (1939-2016) [C]
  413. Philip Temple (1939- ) [N]
  414. W. M. Thackeray (1811-1863) [B]
  415. D. M. Thomas (1935- ) [B]
  416. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) [B] [M]
  417. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [A] [B] [M]
  418. Hugh Thomas (1931-2017) [A]
  419. Rhydian Thomas [N]
  420. R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) [B] [M]
  421. Flora Thompson (1876-1947) [A]
  422. Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) [B] [C]
  423. Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE) [A]
  424. James Thurber (1894-1961) [B]
  425. H. W. Tilman (1898-1977)[A]
  426. Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017) [F]
  427. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) [A]
  428. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [A] [M]
  429. Henry Torrens (1806–1852) [B] [M]
  430. Henry Treece (1911-1966) [B]
  431. Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) [B]
  432. Mark Twain (1837-1910) [A]

  433. V

  434. Jack Vance (1916-2013) [A]
  435. Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) [M]
  436. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- ) [A] [M]
  437. Jules Verne (1828-1905) [M1] [M2]
  438. Gore Vidal (1925-2012) [M]
  439. Julius Vogel (1835-1899) [N]
  440. Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) [B]
  441. Richard von Sturmer (1957- ) [C]

  442. W

  443. Helen Waddell (1889-1965) [B]
  444. H. Russell Wakefield (1888-1964) [B]
  445. Derek Walcott (1930-2017) [CNZ]
  446. Arthur Waley (1889-1966) [B] [M]
  447. Rex Warner (1905-1986) [M]
  448. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) [A] [B]
  449. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) [B]
  450. A. P. Wavell (1883-1950) [A]
  451. Ian Wedde (1946- ) [CNZ]
  452. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) [B] [F] [M]
  453. Albert Wendt (1939– ) [B] [M] [N]
  454. Patrick White (1912-1990) [B]
  455. T. H. White (1906-1964) [B]
  456. Summer Wigmore (2013- ) [N]
  457. Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) [M]
  458. Charles Williams (1886-1945) [A]
  459. Tad Williams (1957- ) [A] [M]
  460. Colin Wilson (1931-2013) [M]
  461. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) [B]
  462. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) [A] [B]
  463. Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) [A] [B] [M]
  464. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) [B]
  465. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) [B] [C]
  466. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) [B]
  467. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) [B1] [B2]
  468. Herman Wouk (1915-2019) [M]
  469. Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582) [A]
  470. John Wyndham (1903-1969) [B]

  471. Y

  472. Frances A. Yates (1899-1981) [B] [M]
  473. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) [A1] [A2] [B]
  474. Banana Yoshimoto (1964- ) [B]
  475. 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. Annotated Editions (1960-2025) [M]
  5. Arabian Nights Bibliography (1704-2016) [F] [Scheherazade's Web]
  6. Arabian Nights Chronology (800-2016) [Scheherazade's Web]
  7. Arabian Nights Concordance (1704-1990) [Scheherazade's Web]
  8. The Arabian Nights in Spanish (1934-2016) [A]
  9. The Bible (c.1400-400 BC / c.50-200 AD) [A] [C]
  10. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (1931- ) [M]
  11. The Bodley Head Editions (1958-1994) [A]
  12. The Bounty (1789- ) [M]
  13. Britannica Great Books of the Western World (1952) [M]
  14. British Ballads (1765- ) [A]
  15. The Brontës [B] [M1] [M2]
  16. Children's Poetry Books (1789- ) [A]
  17. Chinese Ghost Stories [M]
  18. Clarkson N. Potter Annotated Editions (1960-1986) [A]
  19. The Classic Chinese Novel [A1] [A2] [M1] [M2] [O]
  20. D-Day (6 June, 1944) [A]
  21. Easter 1916 [A]
  22. Eighteenth Century Books [A]
  23. Faerie [A]
  24. Fairy Tales (1697- ) [M]
  25. The Folio Society (1947- ) [A] [M]
  26. Greek Historians (c.100 BCE-100 CE) [A]
  27. The Hakluyt Society (1846- ) [A]
  28. Harvard UP Annotated Editions (2009-2022) [A]
  29. Himalayan Exploration (1921-1953) [A]
  30. Homer (fl. c.800 BCE) [A]
  31. The Icelandic Sagas (1960-2002) [A1] (1997) [A2]
  32. Kalila and Dimna (c.800 BCE) [M]
  33. The Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- ) [A]
  34. Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s) [A]
  35. The Library of America (1979- ) [M]
  36. The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860) [A]
  37. Lives of the Novelists (2011) [A]
  38. The Loeb Classics (1912- ) [A]
  39. Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- ) [A]
  40. The Muses' Library: 1st Series (26 vols - 1891-1940) / 2nd Series (16 vols - 1949-1980) [B]
  41. Napoleon (1769-1821) [A]
  42. The New York School of Poets [A]
  43. New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021) [A]
  44. NZSF Chronology (1863-2020) [N]
  45. Noah's Ark [A]
  46. The Nonesuch Library (1927-77) [A]
  47. Norton Annotated Editions (2000-2021) [A]
  48. Omnibuses (1930-1985) [A]
  49. Oxford Books of Verse (1900- ) [A]
  50. Oxford English Texts (1912- ) [A]
  51. Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- ) [A]
  52. Pastoral [A]
  53. Penguin English Poets (1971-1983) [A]
  54. Penguin Modern European Poets (1958-1984) [M]
  55. Penguin Modern Poets (1962-1983) [M]
  56. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [A] [M]
  57. Poetry First Editions (Penguin) (1999) [M]
  58. Poetry New Zealand (1951-2022) [B] [M]
  59. The Poetry Reprint Series (1975) [M]
  60. Psychogeography [M]
  61. The Reynard Library (1950-71) [A]
  62. Russian Foreign Languages Publishing House (1946-64) [M]
  63. Scottish Poets (1425- ) [A]
  64. Sir John Lubbock's 100 Books (1887) [M]
  65. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) [A]
  66. Spies [A]
  67. World War I Poets (1914-18) [A] [M]
  68. World War I Novels (1918-38) [M]
  69. World War II Anthologies (1939-45) [A]
  70. 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. Jorge Amado (1912-2001)
    2. Machado de Assis (1839-1908)
    3. Russell Banks (1940-2023)
    4. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)
    5. Truman Capote (1924-1984) [M]
    6. Michael Chabon (1963- ) [M]
    7. Lydia Davis (1947- ) [M]
    8. Don DeLillo (1936- )
    9. Joan Didion (1934-2021)
    10. John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
    11. Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
    12. Jonathan Franzen (1959- ) [M]
    13. William Gaddis (1922-1998)
    14. Wilson Harris (1921-2018)
    15. Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
    16. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
    17. Samuel Hynes (1924–2019)
    18. Jack London (1876-1916)
    19. David McCullough (1933-2022)
    20. Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
    21. Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) [M]
    22. W. H. Porter ['O. Henry'] (1862-1910)
    23. John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
    24. Irving Stone (1903-1989)
    25. William Styron (1925-2006)
    26. Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
    27. James Thurber (1894-1961)
    28. Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)
    29. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972)
    30. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
    31. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018)

  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 (1935-2023)
    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) [M]
    6. Craig Harrison (1942- ) [M]
    7. Jan Kemp (1949- ) [M]
    8. Frank Sargeson (1903-1982)
    9. Maurice Shadbolt (1932-2004)
    10. C. K. Stead (1932- )
    11. T. G. H. Strehlow (1908–1978)
    12. Albert Wendt (1939– ) [M]
    13. Patrick White (1912-1990)

  4. British:

    1. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
    2. R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900)
    3. George Borrow (1803-1881) [M]
    4. Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) [M]
    5. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
    6. Lord David Cecil (1902-1986)
    7. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)
    8. George Eliot (1819-1880)
    9. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000)
    10. Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) [M]
    11. C. S. Forester (1899-1966)
    12. John Fowles (1926-2005)
    13. Graham Greene (1904-1991) [M]
    14. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) [M]
    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) [M]
    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) [M]
    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) [M]

  5. European & Russian:

    1. Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)
    2. Karen Blixen ['Isak Dinesen'] (1885-1962)
    3. Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
    4. Italo Calvino (1923-1985)
    5. Albert Camus (1913-1960)
    6. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) [M]
    7. Umberto Eco (1932-2016) [M]
    8. Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
    9. Günter Grass (1927-2015)
    10. Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) [M]
    11. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) [M]
    12. Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) [M]
    13. Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) [M]
    14. Primo Levi (1919-1987) [M]
    15. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [M]
    16. Robert Musil (1880-1942) [M]
    17. Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
    18. Zoé Oldenbourg (1916–2002)
    19. Georges Perec (1936-1982) [M]
    20. W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) [M]
    21. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) [M]
    22. George Steiner (1929–2020)
    23. Stendhal (1783–1842)

  6. Fantasy:

    1. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) [M]
    2. Roald Dahl (1916-90)
    3. Peter Dickinson (1927-2015)
    4. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
    5. Neil Gaiman (1960- )
    6. Alan Garner (1934- ) [M]
    7. Edward Gorey (1925-2000) [M]
    8. William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
    9. Margaret Irwin (1889–1967) [M]
    10. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) [M]
    11. George MacDonald (1824-1905) [M]
    12. William Mayne (1928-2010)
    13. E. Nesbit (1858-1924)
    14. Tim Powers (1952- ) [M]
    15. Mary Stewart (1916-2014) [M]
    16. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
    17. T. H. White (1906-1964)

  7. Ghost Stories & Mysteries:

    1. Robert Aickman (1914-1981)
    2. E. F. Benson (1867-1940)
    3. Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)
    4. John Buchan (1875-1940)
    5. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) [M]
    6. F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909)
    7. Edmund Crispin (1921-1978)
    8. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) [M]
    9. Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989)
    10. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972)
    11. Susan Hill (1942- )
    12. M. R. James (1862-1936) [M]
    13. J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) [M]
    14. Oliver Onions (1873-1961)
    15. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)
    16. Iain Sinclair (1943- )
    17. Bram Stoker (1847-1912) [M]
    18. Montague Summers (1880-1948)
    19. H. Russell Wakefield (1888-1964)

  8. Poetry:

    1. W. H. Auden (1907-1973) [M]
    2. John Berryman (1914-1972)
    3. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
    4. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) [M]
    5. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
    6. Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883)
    7. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [M]
    8. Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016)
    9. Ted Hughes (1930-1998) [M]
    10. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) [M]
    11. Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
    12. Robert Lowell (1917-1977) [M]
    13. John Masefield (1878-1967) [M]
    14. William Morris (1834–1896)
    15. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
    16. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
    17. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [M]
    18. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
    19. D. M. Thomas (1935-2023)
    20. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) [M]
    21. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [M]
    22. R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) [M]
    23. Henry Treece (1911-1966)
    24. Helen Waddell (1889-1965)
    25. Arthur Waley (1889-1966) [M]

  9. SF:

    1. Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) [M]
    2. J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) [M]
    3. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
    4. John Christopher (1922-2012)
    5. Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) [M]
    6. Samuel R. Delany (1942- )
    7. Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) [M]
    8. Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) [M]
    9. Frank Herbert (1920-1986) [M]
    10. Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)
    11. Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923-1996) [M]
    12. Robert Silverberg (1935- )
    13. Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
    14. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) [M]
    15. Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) [M]
    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. Gerald Brenan (1894-1987)
    17. Katharine M. Briggs (1898-1980) [I]
    18. Katharine M. Briggs (1898–1980) [II]
    19. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
    20. John Buchan (1875-1940) [II]
    21. Fanny Burney (1752-1840)
    22. William Burroughs (1914-1997)
    23. Lord Byron (1788-1824)
    24. Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005)
    25. Julius Caesar (c.100–44 BCE)
    26. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) [II]
    27. Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
    28. Roger Casement (1864-1916)
    29. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [III]
    30. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
    31. Winston Churchill (1874-1965) [II]
    32. John Clare (1793-1864) [I]
    33. Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674)
    34. Susanna Clark (1959- )
    35. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
    36. Susan Cooper (1935- )
    37. Julio Cortázar (1914-1984)
    38. James Cowan (1870-1943)
    39. Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
    40. John Crowley (1942- )
    41. W. H. Davies (1871-1940)
    42. Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731)
    43. Christopher de Hamel (1950- )
    44. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
    45. José Donoso (1924-1996)
    46. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
    47. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) [II]
    48. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    49. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
    50. Ian Fleming (1908-1964)
    51. Shelby Foote (1916-2005)
    52. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
    53. Frederick Forsyth (1938- )
    54. Ronald Fraser (1930-2012)
    55. Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012)
    56. Paul Fussell (1924-2012)
    57. Neil Gaiman (1960- )
    58. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) [II]
    59. Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca (1539-1616)
    60. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
    61. Ian Gibson (1939- )
    62. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
    63. Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
    64. Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
    65. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [II]
    66. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [III]
    67. Graham Greene (1904-1991) [II]
    68. Hugh Greene (1910-1987)
    69. Lady Gregory (1852-1932)
    70. Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
    71. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
    72. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
    73. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
    74. Max Hastings (1945- )
    75. Hergé (1907-1983)
    76. Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BCE)
    77. Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)
    78. Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913)
    79. Geoffrey Household (1900-1988)
    80. David Howarth (1912-1991)
    81. W. H. Hudson (1841-1922)
    82. T. E. Hulme (1883-1917)
    83. John Hunt (1910-1998)
    84. Washington Irving (1783-1859)
    85. Henry James (1843-1916) [III]
    86. M. R. James (1862-1936) [II]
    87. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887)
    88. David Jones (1895-1974)
    89. S. T. Joshi (1958- )
    90. John Keats (1795-1821)
    91. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
    92. Francis Kilvert (1840-1879)
    93. Ross King (1962- )
    94. Stephen King (1947- )
    95. Stephen King's Dark Tower (2007-2017)
    96. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
    97. Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)
    98. Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979)
    99. Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
    100. Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
    101. John le Carré (1931-2020)
    102. Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917)
    103. Michele Leggott (1956- )
    104. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    105. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) [I]
    106. C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) [II]
    107. W. H. Lewis (1895-1973)
    108. Abraham Lincoln(1809-1965)
    109. Deborah Lipstadt (1947- )
    110. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
    111. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937)
    112. Luo Guanzhong (c.1330–1400 or c.1280–1360)
    113. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
    114. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)
    115. George Mallory (1886-1924)
    116. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [II]
    117. George R. R. Martin (1948- )
    118. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
    119. John Masefield (1878-1967)
    120. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [I]
    121. Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855)
    122. Alan Moore (1953- )
    123. Ward Moore (1903-1978)
    124. John L. Motley (1814-1877)
    125. Murasaki Shikibu (c.973-c.1014/25)
    126. Les Murray (1938-2019)
    127. Peter F. Neumeyer (1929- )
    128. Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986)
    129. Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)
    130. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
    131. George Orwell (1903-1950) [II]
    132. Harold Owen (1897-1971)
    133. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
    134. Francis Parkman (1823-1893)
    135. John Payne (1842-1916)
    136. Patrick Pearse (1879-1916)
    137. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [I]
    138. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
    139. William H. Prescott (1796-1859)
    140. Harry Price (1881-1948)
    141. Manuel Puig (1932-1990)
    142. Herbert Read (1893-1968)
    143. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005)
    144. Keith Roberts (1935-2000)
    145. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
    146. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986)
    147. Damon Runyon (1880-1946)
    148. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974)
    149. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)
    150. J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
    151. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [II]
    152. James Schuyler (1923-1991)
    153. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [I]
    154. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [II]
    155. Shi Nai'an (c.1296-1372)
    156. Eric Shipton (1907-1977)
    157. Frank Smythe (1900-1949)
    158. Charles Sorley (1895-1915)
    159. Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014)
    160. James Stephens (1880-1950) [I]
    161. James Stephens (1882-1950) [II]
    162. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
    163. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
    164. Tacitus (c.56–c.120)
    165. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [II]
    166. Hugh Thomas (1931-2017)
    167. Flora Thompson (1876-1947)
    168. Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE)
    169. H. W. Tilman (1898-1977)
    170. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
    171. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [I]
    172. Mark Twain (1837-1910)
    173. Jack Vance (1916-2013)
    174. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- )
    175. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
    176. A. P. Wavell (1883-1950)
    177. Charles Williams (1886-1945)
    178. Tad Williams (1957- )
    179. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
    180. Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582)
    181. W. B. Yeats (1865-1938) [I]
    182. 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. Harvard UP Annotated Editions (2009-2022)
    19. Himalayan Exploration (1921-1953)
    20. Homer (fl. c.800 BCE)
    21. The Icelandic Sagas (1960-2002) [I]
    22. The Icelandic Sagas (1997) [II]
    23. The Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- )
    24. Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s)
    25. The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860)
    26. The Loeb Classics (1912- )
    27. Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- )
    28. Napoleon (1769-1821)
    29. The New York School of Poets
    30. New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021)
    31. Noah's Ark]
    32. The Nonesuch Library (1927-77)
    33. Norton Annotated Editions (2000-2021)
    34. Omnibuses (1930-1985)
    35. Oxford Books of Verse (1900- )
    36. Oxford English Texts (1912- )
    37. Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- )
    38. Pastoral
    39. Penguin English Poets (1971-1983)
    40. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [II]
    41. The Reynard Library (1950-71)
    42. Scottish Poets (1425- )
    43. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
    44. Spies
    45. World War I Poets (1914-18) [II]
    46. 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. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
    17. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [I]
    18. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [II]
    19. Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) [I]
    20. John Clare (1793-1864) [II]
    21. Michael Cox (1948-2009)
    22. Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972)
    23. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
    24. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
    25. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
    26. Peter Dickinson (1927-2015)
    27. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    28. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
    29. Constance Garnett (1861-1946)
    30. David Garnett (1892-1981)
    31. Richard Garnett (1923-2013)
    32. William Golding (1911-1993)
    33. Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985)
    34. Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961)
    35. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
    36. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
    37. Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)
    38. E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
    39. Dylan Horrocks (1966- )
    40. Tony Horwitz (1958-2019)
    41. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
    42. Henry James (1843-1916) [I]
    43. Henry James (1843-1916) [II]
    44. James Joyce (1882-1941)
    45. Stephen King (1947- )
    46. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    47. T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
    48. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) [I]
    49. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) [I]
    50. Robert Lowell (1917-1977) [II]]
    51. Arthur Machen (1863-1947)
    52. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
    53. Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
    54. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [III]
    55. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [II]
    56. A. A. Milne (1882-1956)
    57. Christopher Milne (1920-1996)
    58. Alice Munro (1931–2024)
    59. E. Nesbit (1858-1924)
    60. John Julius Norwich (1929–2018)
    61. Zoë Oldenbourg (1916–2002)
    62. George Orwell (1903-1950) [I]
    63. Hershel Parker (1935- )
    64. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [II]
    65. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
    66. Pu Songling (1640-1715)
    67. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)
    68. Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
    69. Steven Runciman (1903-2000)
    70. Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
    71. Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [II]
    72. Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
    73. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
    74. Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992)
    75. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [II]
    76. Robert van Gulik (1910-1967)
    77. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- )
    78. Jules Verne (1828-1905)
    79. Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
    80. Rex Warner (1905-1986)
    81. Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
    82. Tad Williams (1957- )
    83. Colin Wilson (1931-2013)
    84. Herman Wouk (1915-2019)
    85. Yuan Mei (1716–1797)

  2. Series & Themes:

    1. American Civil War (1861-1865) [I]
    2. Annotated Editions (1960-2025)
    3. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (1931- )
    4. The Bounty (1789- )
    5. Britannica Great Books of the Western World (1952)
    6. The Brontës
    7. Chinese Ghost Stories
    8. The Classic Chinese Novel [I]
    9. The Classic Chinese Novel [II]
    10. Fairy Tales (1697- )
    11. The Folio Society (1947- ) [II]
    12. Kalila and Dimna (c.800 BCE)
    13. The Library of America (1979- )
    14. Penguin Modern European Poets (1958-1984)
    15. Penguin Modern Poets (1962-1983)
    16. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [I]
    17. Poetry First Editions (Penguin) (1999)
    18. Poetry New Zealand (1951-2022)
    19. The Poetry Reprint Series (1975)
    20. Psychogeography
    21. Russian Foreign Languages Publishing House (1946-64)
    22. Sir John Lubbock's 100 Books (1887)
    23. World War I Poets (1914-18) [I]
    24. 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)