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

Monday

Acquisitions & Discoveries


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. Joan Aiken (1924-2004) [M]
  6. Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) [M]
  7. Edward Albee (1928-2016) [A]
  8. Richard Aldington (1892-1962) [A]
  9. Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) [A]
  10. Jorge Amado (1912-2001) [B]
  11. Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) [A]
  12. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) [A] [M]
  13. Martin Amis (1949-2023) [M]
  14. Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) [M]
  15. Hiro Arikawa (1972- ) [A]
  16. Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533) [A]
  17. Martin Armstrong (1882-1974) [C] [F]
  18. John Ashbery (1927-2017) [A]
  19. Geoffrey Ashe (1923-2022) [M]
  20. Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) [B] [M]
  21. Machado de Assis (1839-1908) [B]
  22. Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974) [A]
  23. W. H. Auden (1907-1973) [A] [B] [C] [M1] M2] [M3]

  24. B

  25. James Baldwin (1924-1987) [M]
  26. J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) [B] [M]
  27. Russell Banks (1940-2023) [B]
  28. Owen Barfield (1898-1997) [A]
  29. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) [C] [F]
  30. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) [C]
  31. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) [A] [M]
  32. James K. Baxter (1926-1972) [B]
  33. Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) [B]
  34. Antony Beevor (1946- ) [A]
  35. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) [A]
  36. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) [B]
  37. E. F. Benson (1867-1940) [B]
  38. Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) [A]
  39. John Berryman (1914-1972) [B]
  40. John Betjeman (1906-1984) [A]
  41. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) [B]
  42. R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900) [B]
  43. Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) [B] [M]
  44. William Blake (1757-1827) [C]
  45. Karen Blixen ['Isak Dinesen'] (1885-1962) [B]
  46. Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) [A]
  47. Matteo Maria Boiardo (1440-1494) [A]
  48. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) [A] [C] [F]
  49. George Borrow (1803-1881) [B] [M]
  50. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) [B] [M]
  51. Joe Brainard (1942-1994) [A]
  52. Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) [A]
  53. Gerald Brenan (1894-1987) [A]
  54. Katharine M. Briggs (1898-1980) [A1 [A2]
  55. Anne Brontë (1820-1849) [B] [M]
  56. Branwell Brontë (1817-1848) [M]
  57. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) [B] [M]
  58. Emily Brontë (1818-1848) [B] [M]
  59. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) [A]
  60. Alan Brunton (1946-2002) [M]
  61. Bill Bryson (1951- ) [A]
  62. John Buchan (1875-1940) [A] [B]
  63. Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) [B]
  64. Kenneth Bulmer [Adam Hardy] (1921-2005) [A]
  65. Fanny Burney (1752-1840) [A]
  66. Charles Burns (1955- ) [A]
  67. William Burroughs (1914-1997) [A]
  68. Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) [B] [F] [M]
  69. Samuel Butler (1835-1902) [N]
  70. Lord Byron (1788-1824) [A] [B]
  71. Robert Byron (1905-1941) [A]

  72. C

  73. Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005) [A]
  74. Julius Caesar (c.100–44 BCE) [A]
  75. Italo Calvino (1923-1985) [B]
  76. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) [B]
  77. Albert Camus (1913-1960) [B]
  78. Truman Capote (1924-1984) [B] [C] [M]
  79. Orson Scott Card (1951- ) [M]
  80. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) [A] [B]
  81. Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) [A]
  82. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) [M]
  83. Anne Carson (1950- ) [C] [CNZ]
  84. Roger Casement (1864-1916) [A]
  85. Charles Causley (1917-2003) [A1] [A2]
  86. C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) [M]
  87. Lord David Cecil (1902-1986) [B]
  88. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [A] [M1] [M2] [M3]
  89. Michael Chabon (1963- ) [A] [B] [C] [O]
  90. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) [A]
  91. Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) [A]
  92. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) [A]
  93. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) [B] [M]
  94. John Christopher (1922-2012) [B]
  95. Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) [A] [M]
  96. John Clare (1793-1864) [A] [M]
  97. Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) [A]
  98. Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) [B] [M]
  99. Susanna Clark (1959- ) [A]
  100. Jerome W. Clinton (1937-2003) [F]
  101. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) [A]
  102. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) [B] [M]
  103. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) [B] [M]
  104. Susan Cooper (1935- ) [A]
  105. Tim Corballis (1971- ) [F]
  106. Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) [A]
  107. James Cowan (1870-1943) [A]
  108. Michael Cox (1948-2009) [M]
  109. Nigel Cox (1951-2006) [N]
  110. Stephen Crane (1871-1900) [A]
  111. John Cranna (1954- ) [N]
  112. F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909) [B]
  113. Edmund Crispin (1921-1978) [B]
  114. John Crowley (1942- ) [A]

  115. D

  116. Roald Dahl (1916-1990) [B] [M]
  117. William Dalrymple (1965- ) [A]
  118. W. H. Davies (1871-1940) [A]
  119. Lydia Davis (1947- ) [B] [C] [M]
  120. Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972) [M]
  121. Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) [B]
  122. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) [A] [B]
  123. Christopher de Hamel (1950- ) [A]
  124. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) [B] [M]
  125. Samuel R. Delany (1942- ) [B]
  126. Don DeLillo (1936- ) [B]
  127. Guillermo del Toro (1964- ) [M]
  128. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) [A] [M]
  129. Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) [A] [B] [F] [M]
  130. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) [B] [M1] [M2]
  131. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) [M]
  132. Peter Dickinson (1927-2015) [B] [M]
  133. Joan Didion (1934-2021) [B]
  134. Bill Direen (1957- ) [N]
  135. David Donachie (1944-2023) [A]
  136. José Donoso (1924-1996) [A]
  137. John Dos Passos (1896-1970) [B]
  138. Keith Douglas (1920-1944) [A]
  139. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) [B] [M]
  140. Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) [B]
  141. Maurice Duggan (1922-1974) [B]
  142. Breton Dukes [F]
  143. Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989) [B]
  144. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) [A] [B]
  145. Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) [M]
  146. Chris Durbin (1955- ) [A]
  147. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) [A1] [B] [A2]

  148. E

  149. Umberto Eco (1932-2016) [B]
  150. Martin Edmond (1952- ) [C]
  151. George Eliot (1819-1880) [B]
  152. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) [B]
  153. Shūsaku Endō (1923-1996) [B]
  154. Gavin Ewart (1916–1995) [A1] [A2]

  155. F

  156. A. R. D. Fairburn (1904–1957) [A]
  157. Rowena Farre (1921-1979) [A]
  158. Fiona Farrell (1947- ) [CNZ]
  159. William Faulkner (1897-1962) [A] [M]
  160. Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) [A]
  161. Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883) [B]
  162. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) [A]
  163. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) [B]
  164. Ian Fleming (1908-1964) [A]
  165. Peter Fleming (1907-1971) [A]
  166. Shelby Foote (1916-2005) [A]
  167. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) [A] [B]
  168. C. S. Forester (1899-1966) [A] [B]
  169. Frederick Forsyth (1938- ) [A]
  170. John Fowles (1926-2005) [B]
  171. Janet Frame (1924–2004) [B]
  172. Jonathan Franzen (1959- ) [B] [O]
  173. Ronald Fraser (1930-2012) [A]
  174. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) [M]
  175. Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012) [A]
  176. Roy Fuller (1912-1991) [A]
  177. Paul Fussell (1924-2012) [A]

  178. G

  179. William Gaddis (1922-1998) [B]
  180. Neil Gaiman (1960- ) [A] [B] [M]
  181. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) [A] [F]
  182. Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca (1539-1616) [A]
  183. Alan Garner (1934- ) [B] [M]
  184. Constance Garnett (1861-1946) [M]
  185. David Garnett (1892-1981) [M]
  186. Richard Garnett (1923-2013) [M]
  187. Maurice Gee (1931- ) [B]
  188. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) [A]
  189. Ian Gibson (1939- ) [A]
  190. W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) [A]
  191. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) [A]
  192. Philip Gluckman (1954- ) [N]
  193. William Golding (1911-1993) [M]
  194. Edward Gorey (1925-2000) [A] [B] [M]
  195. Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) [B]
  196. Harry Graham (1874-1936) [A]
  197. Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) [A]
  198. Günter Grass (1927-2015) [B]
  199. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [A1] [A2] [B] [M]
  200. Graham Greene (1904-1991) [A] [B] [M]
  201. Hugh Greene (1910-1987) [A]
  202. Lady Gregory (1852-1932) [A]
  203. Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) [M]
  204. Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) [A]
  205. Heinz Grotzfeld [F]
  206. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) [A]

  207. H

  208. Husain Haddawy [F]
  209. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) [A]
  210. Russell Haley (1934-2016) [B] [M]
  211. Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) [M]
  212. Andras Hamori [F]
  213. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) [A]
  214. Michael Harlow (1930- ) [CNZ]
  215. Wilson Harris (1921-2018) [B]
  216. Craig Harrison (1942- ) [B] [M] [N]
  217. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972) [B]
  218. Max Hastings (1945- ) [A]
  219. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) [M]
  220. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) [B] [M]
  221. Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) [B] [M]
  222. Joseph Heller (1923-1999) [B]
  223. Lillian Hellman (1905–1984) [A] [M]
  224. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) [B]
  225. O. Henry (1862-1910) [B]
  226. Frank Herbert (1920-1986) [B] [M]
  227. Hergé (1907-1983) [A]
  228. Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BCE) [A]
  229. Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) [B] [M]
  230. Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016) [B]
  231. Susan Hill (1942- ) [B]
  232. Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) [A]
  233. Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913) [A]
  234. William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) [B]
  235. E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) [M]
  236. Henry Honor [N]
  237. Josef Horovitz (1974-1931) [F]
  238. Dylan Horrocks (1966- ) [M] [N]
  239. Tony Horwitz (1958-2019) [M]
  240. Geoffrey Household (1900-1988) [A]
  241. David Howarth (1912-1991) [A]
  242. Susan Howe (1937- ) [C] [CNZ]
  243. Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) [B]
  244. W. H. Hudson (1841-1922) [A]
  245. Ted Hughes (1930-1998) [B] [M]
  246. T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) [A]
  247. John Hunt (1910-1998) [A]
  248. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) [A] [B]
  249. Robin Hyde (1906-1939) [C]
  250. Samuel Hynes (1924–2019) [B]

  251. I

  252. Witi Ihimaera (1944- ) [F]
  253. Washington Irving (1783-1859) [A]
  254. Margaret Irwin (1889–1967) [B] [M]
  255. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) [B] [M]

  256. J

  257. Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) [F]
  258. Henry James (1843-1916) [A] [M1] [M2]
  259. M. R. James (1862-1936) [A] [B] [F] [M]
  260. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) [A]
  261. Lynn Jenner (1955- ) [C]
  262. Mike Johnson (1947- ) [N]
  263. David Jones (1895-1974) [A]
  264. M. K. Joseph (1914-1981) [N]
  265. S. T. Joshi (1958- ) [A]
  266. James Joyce (1882-1941) [B] [M]

  267. K

  268. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) [B] [M]
  269. Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) [B]
  270. John Keats (1795-1821) [A]
  271. Donald Keene (1922-2019) [C]
  272. Jan Kemp (1949- ) [B] [M]
  273. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) [A]
  274. Sidney Keyes (1922-1943) [M] [A]
  275. Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982) [B]
  276. Abdelfattah Kilito (1945- ) [F]
  277. Francis Kilvert (1840-1879) [A]
  278. Ross King (1962- ) [A]
  279. Stephen King (1947- ) [A1] [A2] [A3] [M]
  280. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) [A] [B] [M]
  281. Elizabeth Knox (1959- ) [N]
  282. Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) [A]
  283. Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) [B] [M]
  284. Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979) [A]
  285. Leicester Kyle (1937-2006) [C] [The Collected Poems of Leicester Hugo Kyle]

  286. L

  287. Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828) [A]
  288. Dewey Lambdin (1945-2021) [A]
  289. Edward W. Lane (1801-1876) [F]
  290. Philip Larkin (1922-1985) [A] [B]
  291. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) [B]
  292. T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) [M]
  293. Edward Lear (1812-1888) [A]
  294. John le Carré (1931-2020) [A]
  295. Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917) [A]
  296. J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) [B] [M]
  297. Michele Leggott (1956- ) [A] [CNZ] [Michele 2021]
  298. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) [A] [B] [F] [M]
  299. Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) [B] [F] [M]
  300. Primo Levi (1919-1987) [B] [M]
  301. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) [C]
  302. Alun Lewis (1915-1944) [A]
  303. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) [A] [A2]
  304. W. H. Lewis (1895-1973) [A]
  305. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) [B]
  306. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1965) [A]
  307. Graham Lindsay (1952- ) [CNZ]
  308. Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) [A]
  309. Deborah Lipstadt (1947- ) [A]
  310. Jack London (1876-1916) [B]
  311. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) [A]
  312. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) [A [M]
  313. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) [B] [M1] [M2]
  314. Luo Guanzhong (c.1330–1400 or c.1280–1360) [A]

  315. M

  316. Olivia Macassey (1975- ) [C]
  317. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) [A]
  318. Arthur Machen (1863-1947) [M]
  319. David McCullough (1933-2022) [B]
  320. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916) [A]
  321. George MacDonald (1824-1905) [B] [M]
  322. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) [M]
  323. Muhsin Mahdi (1926-2007) [F]
  324. Margaret Mahy (1936-2012) [M]
  325. Norman Mailer (1923-2007) [B] [C] [M]
  326. Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) [B] [M]
  327. George Mallory (1886-1924) [A]
  328. Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) [M]
  329. Phillip Mann (1942-2022) [N]
  330. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [A] [B] [M]
  331. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) [A]
  332. Don Marquis (1878–1937) [A]
  333. George R. R. Martin (1948- ) [A]
  334. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) [A]
  335. John Masefield (1878-1967) [A] [B] [M] [MA Thesis: John Masefield]
  336. William Mayne (1928-2010) [B] [M]
  337. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [A] [M]
  338. Arthur Miller (1915-2005) [A]
  339. Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923-1996) [B] [M]
  340. A. A. Milne (1882-1956) [M]
  341. Christopher Milne (1920-1996) [M]
  342. Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) [B]
  343. Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855) [A]
  344. Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) [M]
  345. Alan Moore (1953- ) [A]
  346. Ward Moore (1912-1991) [A]
  347. Jan Morris (1926- ) [A]
  348. William Morris (1834–1896) [B]
  349. John L. Motley (1814-1877) [A]
  350. Paul Muldoon (1951- ) [CNZ]
  351. Alice Munro (1931–2024) [M]
  352. Haruki Murakami (1949- ) [A] [B]
  353. Lady Murasaki (c.973-c.1014/25) [A]
  354. Les Murray (1938-2019) [A]
  355. Robert Musil (1880-1942) [B] [M]

  356. N

  357. Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) [A] [B] [C] [M]
  358. Ogden Nash (1902-1971) [A]
  359. Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) [A] [B]
  360. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) [B] [M]
  361. E. Nesbit (1858-1924) [B] [M]
  362. Peter F. Neumeyer (1929- ) [A]
  363. Eric Newby (1919-2006) [A]
  364. Charles Nicholl (1904-1991) [A]
  365. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) [C]
  366. Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986)[A]
  367. John Julius Norwich (1929–2018) [M]

  368. O

  369. Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000) [A]
  370. Tim O'Brien (1946- ) [M]
  371. Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) [A]
  372. Clifford Odets (1906–1963) [A]
  373. Kenzaburō Ōe (1935- ) [B]
  374. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) [A]
  375. Zoé Oldenbourg (1916–2002) [B] [M]
  376. Michael Ondaatje (1943- ) [C]
  377. Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) [A]
  378. Oliver Onions (1873-1961) [B]
  379. George Orwell (1903-1950) [A] [M]
  380. Harold Owen (1897-1971) [A]
  381. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) [A]

  382. P

  383. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) [A]
  384. Hershel Parker (1935- ) [M]
  385. Francis Parkman (1823-1893) [A]
  386. John Payne (1842-1916) [A]
  387. Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) [A]
  388. Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) [A]
  389. Georges Perec (1936-1982) [B] [M]
  390. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [A] [M]
  391. David Pinault [F]
  392. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) [A] [B]
  393. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) [F] [M]
  394. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) [A] [B]
  395. Dudley Pope (1925–1997) [A]
  396. Cole Porter (1891-1964) [A]
  397. Tim Powers (1952- ) [B] [M]
  398. John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) [B] [M]
  399. T. F. Powys (1875-1953) [B]
  400. Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939) [B]
  401. John Prebble (1915-2001) [B]
  402. William H. Prescott (1796-1859) [A]
  403. Harry Price (1881-1948) [A]
  404. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) [B] [M]
  405. Pu Songling (1640-1715) [M]
  406. John Pudney (1909-1977) [A]
  407. Manuel Puig (1932-1990) [A]
  408. Luigi Pulci (1432-1484) [A]

  409. Q

  410. Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) [M]

  411. R

  412. Jonathan Raban (1942-2023) [A]
  413. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) [M]
  414. Herbert Read (1893-1968) [A]
  415. Peter Reading (1946-2011) [CNZ]
  416. Henry Reed (1914-1986) [A]
  417. Douglas Reeman [Alexander Kent] (1924–2017) [A]
  418. Mary Renault (1905-1983) [B]
  419. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) [M]
  420. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) [M]
  421. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005) [A]
  422. Keith Roberts (1935-2000) [A]
  423. Michael Roberts (1902-1948) [M]
  424. Harold Robbins (1916-1997) [F]
  425. Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) (1860–1913) [B]
  426. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) [A]
  427. Alan Ross (1922-2001) [A]
  428. Jack Ross (1962- ) [F]
  429. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) [A]
  430. Steven Runciman (1903-2000) [M]
  431. Damon Runyon (1880-1946) [A]
  432. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) [A]

  433. S

  434. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) [A]
  435. J. D. Salinger (1919-2010) [A]
  436. Frank Sargeson (1903-1982) [B]
  437. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [A] [B] [M]
  438. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) [B] [M]
  439. James Schuyler (1923-1991) [A]
  440. Rosie Scott (1948-2017) [N]
  441. W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) [A][B] [M]
  442. Lutz Seiler (1963- ) [M]
  443. Sei Shōnagon (c.966–1017) [C]
  444. Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) [A]
  445. Tim Severin (1940- ) [A]
  446. Maurice Shadbolt (1932-2004) [B]
  447. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [A1] [A2]
  448. Tina Shaw (1961- ) [F]
  449. Mary Shelley (1797-1851) [M]
  450. Shi Nai'an (c.1296-1372) [A]
  451. Eric Shipton (1907-1977) [A]
  452. Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [B] [M]
  453. Iain Sinclair (1943- ) [B] [M]
  454. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) [B]
  455. Stevie Smith (1902-1971) [B]
  456. Kendrick Smithyman (1922-1995) [A]
  457. Frank Smythe (1900-1949) [A]
  458. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) [A] [B]
  459. Charles Sorley (1895-1915) [A]
  460. Stephen Spender (1909-1995) [M]
  461. Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014) [A]
  462. C. K. Stead (1932- ) [B] [N]
  463. John Steinbeck (1902-1968) [B]
  464. George Steiner (1929–2020) [B]
  465. Stendhal (1783–1842) [B]
  466. James Stephens (1880-1950) [A1] [A2]
  467. John L. Stephens (1805-1852) [A] [M]
  468. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) [A]
  469. Mary Stewart (1916-2014) [B] [M]
  470. Julian Stockwin (1944- ) [A]
  471. Bram Stoker (1847-1912) [B] [M]
  472. Irving Stone (1903-1989) [B]
  473. T. G. H. Strehlow (1908–1978) [B]
  474. Showell Styles (1908-2005) [A]
  475. William Styron (1925-2006) [B]
  476. Montague Summers (1880-1948) [B]
  477. Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) [M]

  478. T

  479. Tacitus (c.56–c.120) [A]
  480. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965) [B]
  481. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) [A]
  482. Alessandro Tassoni (1565-1635) [A]
  483. Alice Tawhai [F]
  484. Dennis Tedlock (1939-2016) [C]
  485. Philip Temple (1939- ) [N]
  486. W. M. Thackeray (1811-1863) [B]
  487. Paul Theroux (1941- ) [A]
  488. Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) [A]
  489. D. M. Thomas (1935- ) [B]
  490. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) [B] [M]
  491. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [A] [B] [M]
  492. Hugh Thomas (1931-2017) [A]
  493. Rhydian Thomas [N]
  494. R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) [B] [M]
  495. Flora Thompson (1876-1947) [A]
  496. Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) [B] [C]
  497. Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862) [M]
  498. Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE) [A]
  499. James Thurber (1894-1961) [B]
  500. H. W. Tilman (1898-1977)[A]
  501. Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017) [F]
  502. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) [A]
  503. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [A] [M]
  504. Henry Torrens (1806–1852) [B] [M]
  505. Henry Treece (1911-1966) [B [A]
  506. Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) [B]
  507. Mark Twain (1837-1910) [A]

  508. V

  509. Jack Vance (1916-2013) [A]
  510. Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) [M]
  511. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- ) [A] [M]
  512. Jules Verne (1828-1905) [M1] [M2]
  513. Gore Vidal (1925-2012) [M]
  514. Julius Vogel (1835-1899) [N]
  515. Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) [B]
  516. Richard von Sturmer (1957- ) [C]

  517. W

  518. Helen Waddell (1889-1965) [B]
  519. H. Russell Wakefield (1888-1964) [B]
  520. Derek Walcott (1930-2017) [CNZ] [M]
  521. Arthur Waley (1889-1966) [B] [M]
  522. Rex Warner (1905-1986) [M]
  523. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) [A] [B]
  524. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) [B]
  525. A. P. Wavell (1883-1950) [A]
  526. Ian Wedde (1946- ) [CNZ]
  527. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) [B] [F] [M]
  528. Albert Wendt (1939– ) [B] [M] [N]
  529. Patrick White (1912-1990) [B]
  530. T. H. White (1906-1964) [B]
  531. Summer Wigmore (2013- ) [N]
  532. Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) [M]
  533. Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) [A]
  534. Charles Williams (1886-1945) [A]
  535. Tad Williams (1957- ) [A] [M]
  536. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) [A]
  537. Colin Wilson (1931-2013) [M]
  538. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) [B]
  539. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) [A] [B]
  540. Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) [A] [B] [M]
  541. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) [B]
  542. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) [B] [C]
  543. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) [B]
  544. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) [B1] [B2]
  545. Herman Wouk (1915-2019) [M]
  546. Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582) [A]
  547. John Wyndham (1903-1969) [B]

  548. Y

  549. Frances A. Yates (1899-1981) [B] [M]
  550. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) [A1] [A2] [B]
  551. Banana Yoshimoto (1964- ) [B]
  552. 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. American Theatre: The Heroic Age [A]
  4. Ancient Indian Epics [A]
  5. Annotated Editions (1960-2025) [M]
  6. Arabian Nights Bibliography (1704-2016) [F] [Scheherazade's Web]
  7. Arabian Nights Chronology (800-2016) [Scheherazade's Web]
  8. Arabian Nights Concordance (1704-1990) [Scheherazade's Web]
  9. The Arabian Nights in Spanish (1934-2016) [A]
  10. The Bible (c.1400-400 BC / c.50-200 AD) [A] [C]
  11. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (1931- ) [M]
  12. The Bodley Head Editions (1958-1994) [A]
  13. The Bounty (1789- ) [M]
  14. Britannica Great Books of the Western World (1952) [M]
  15. British Ballads (1765- ) [A]
  16. The Brontës [B] [M1] [M2]
  17. Children's Poetry Books (1789- ) [A]
  18. Chinese Ghost Stories [M]
  19. Clarkson N. Potter Annotated Editions (1960-1986) [A]
  20. The Classic Chinese Novel [A1] [A2] [M1] [M2] [O]
  21. D-Day (6 June, 1944) [A]
  22. Easter 1916 [A]
  23. Eighteenth Century Books [A]
  24. Faerie [A]
  25. Fairy Tales (1697- ) [M]
  26. The Folio Society (1947- ) [A] [M]
  27. Greek Historians (c.100 BCE-100 CE) [A]
  28. The Hakluyt Society (1846- ) [A]
  29. Harvard UP Annotated Editions (2009-2022) [A]
  30. Himalayan Exploration (1921-1953) [A]
  31. Homer (fl. c.800 BCE) [A]
  32. The Icelandic Sagas (1960-2002) [A1] (1997) [A2]
  33. The Italian Epic (1320-1622) [A]
  34. Kalila and Dimna (c.800 BCE) [M]
  35. The Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- ) [A]
  36. Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s) [A]
  37. The Library of America (1979- ) [M]
  38. The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860) [A]
  39. Light Verse [A]
  40. Lives of the Novelists (2011) [A]
  41. The Loeb Classics (1912- ) [A]
  42. Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- ) [A]
  43. Modern British Travel Writing [A]
  44. Modern Poets in English Translation (1854-1981) [M]
  45. The Muses' Library: 1st Series (26 vols - 1891-1940) / 2nd Series (16 vols - 1949-1980) [B]
  46. Napoleon (1769-1821) [A]
  47. Nautical Historical Fiction (1789-1815) [A]
  48. The New York School of Poets [A]
  49. New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021) [A]
  50. NZSF Chronology (1863-2020) [N]
  51. Noah's Ark [A]
  52. The Nonesuch Library (1927-77) [A]
  53. Norton Annotated Editions (2000-2021) [A]
  54. Omnibuses (1930-1985) [A]
  55. Oxford Books of Verse (1900- ) [A]
  56. Oxford English Texts (1912- ) [A]
  57. Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- ) [A]
  58. Pastoral [A]
  59. Penguin English Poets (1971-1983) [A]
  60. Penguin Modern European Poets (1958-1984) [M]
  61. Penguin Modern Poets (1962-1983) [M]
  62. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [A] [M]
  63. Poetry First Editions (Penguin) (1999) [M]
  64. Poetry New Zealand (1951-2022) [B] [M]
  65. The Poetry Reprint Series (1975) [M]
  66. Psychogeography [M]
  67. The Reynard Library (1950-71) [A]
  68. Russian Foreign Languages Publishing House (1946-64) [M]
  69. Scottish Poets (1425- ) [A]
  70. Sir John Lubbock's 100 Books (1887) [M]
  71. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) [A]
  72. Spies [A]
  73. World War I Novels (1918-38) [M]
  74. World War I Poets (1914-18) [A] [M]
  75. World War II Anthologies (1939-45) [A]
  76. World War II Novels (1948-83) [M]
  77. World War II Poets (1939-45) [A]



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) [I]
    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. Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
    20. D. M. Thomas (1935-2023)
    21. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) [M]
    22. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [M]
    23. R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) [M]
    24. Henry Treece (1911-1966)
    25. Helen Waddell (1889-1965)
    26. 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. Edward Albee (1928-2016)
    3. Richard Aldington (1892-1962)
    4. Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
    5. Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002)
    6. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
    7. Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533)
    8. John Ashbery (1927-2017)
    9. Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974)
    10. Owen Barfield (1898-1997)
    11. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) [I]
    12. Antony Beevor (1946- )
    13. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
    14. Ted Berrigan (1934-1983)
    15. John Betjeman (1906-1984)
    16. Edmund Blunden (1896-1974)
    17. Matteo Maria Boiardo (1440-1494)
    18. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) [III]
    19. Joe Brainard (1942-1994)
    20. Ernest Bramah (1868-1942)
    21. Gerald Brenan (1894-1987)
    22. Katharine M. Briggs (1898-1980) [I]
    23. Katharine M. Briggs (1898–1980) [II]
    24. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
    25. Bill Bryson (1951- )
    26. John Buchan (1875-1940) [II]
    27. Kenneth Bulmer [Adam Hardy] (1921-2005)
    28. Fanny Burney (1752-1840)
    29. Charles Burns (1955- )
    30. William Burroughs (1914-1997)
    31. Lord Byron (1788-1824)
    32. Robert Byron (1905-1941)
    33. Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005)
    34. Julius Caesar (c.100–44 BCE)
    35. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) [II]
    36. Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
    37. Roger Casement (1864-1916)
    38. Charles Causley (1917-2003) [I]
    39. Charles Causley (1917-2003) [II]
    40. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [III]
    41. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
    42. Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989)
    43. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904)
    44. Winston Churchill (1874-1965) [II]
    45. John Clare (1793-1864) [I]
    46. Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674)
    47. Susanna Clark (1959- )
    48. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
    49. Susan Cooper (1935- )
    50. Julio Cortázar (1914-1984)
    51. James Cowan (1870-1943)
    52. Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
    53. John Crowley (1942- )
    54. William Dalrymple (1965- )
    55. W. H. Davies (1871-1940)
    56. Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731)
    57. Christopher de Hamel (1950- )
    58. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
    59. David Donachie (1944-2023)
    60. José Donoso (1924-1996)
    61. Keith Douglas (1920-1944)
    62. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
    63. Chris Durbin (1955- )
    64. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) [II]
    65. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) [III]
    66. Gavin Ewart (1916–1995) [I]
    67. Gavin Ewart (1916-1995) [II]
    68. A. R. D. Fairburn (1904–1957)
    69. Rowena Farre (1921-1979)
    70. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    71. Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011)
    72. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
    73. Ian Fleming (1908-1964)
    74. Peter Fleming (1907-1971)
    75. Shelby Foote (1916-2005)
    76. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
    77. C. S. Forester (1899-1966) [II]
    78. Frederick Forsyth (1938- )
    79. Ronald Fraser (1930-2012)
    80. Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012)
    81. Roy Fuller (1912-1991)
    82. Paul Fussell (1924-2012)
    83. Neil Gaiman (1960- )
    84. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) [II]
    85. Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca (1539-1616)
    86. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
    87. Ian Gibson (1939- )
    88. W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911)
    89. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
    90. Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
    91. Harry Graham (1874-1936)
    92. Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
    93. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [II]
    94. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [III]
    95. Graham Greene (1904-1991) [II]
    96. Hugh Greene (1910-1987)
    97. Lady Gregory (1852-1932)
    98. Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
    99. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
    100. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
    101. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
    102. Max Hastings (1945- )
    103. Hergé (1907-1983)
    104. Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BCE)
    105. Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)
    106. Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913)
    107. Geoffrey Household (1900-1988)
    108. David Howarth (1912-1991)
    109. W. H. Hudson (1841-1922)
    110. T. E. Hulme (1883-1917)
    111. John Hunt (1910-1998)
    112. Washington Irving (1783-1859)
    113. Henry James (1843-1916) [III]
    114. M. R. James (1862-1936) [II]
    115. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887)
    116. David Jones (1895-1974)
    117. S. T. Joshi (1958- )
    118. John Keats (1795-1821)
    119. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
    120. Sidney Keyes (1922–1943)
    121. Francis Kilvert (1840-1879)
    122. Ross King (1962- )
    123. Stephen King (1947- )
    124. Stephen King's Dark Tower (2007-2017)
    125. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
    126. Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)
    127. Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979)
    128. Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
    129. Dewey Lambdin (1945-2021)
    130. Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
    131. Edward Lear (1812-1888)
    132. John le Carré (1931-2020)
    133. Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917)
    134. Michele Leggott (1956- )
    135. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    136. Alun Lewis (1915-1944)
    137. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) [I]
    138. C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) [II]
    139. W. H. Lewis (1895-1973)
    140. Abraham Lincoln(1809-1965)
    141. Norman Lindsay (1879–1969)
    142. Deborah Lipstadt (1947- )
    143. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
    144. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937)
    145. Luo Guanzhong (c.1330–1400 or c.1280–1360)
    146. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
    147. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)
    148. George Mallory (1886-1924)
    149. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [II]
    150. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
    151. Don Marquis (1878–1937)
    152. George R. R. Martin (1948- )
    153. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
    154. John Masefield (1878-1967)
    155. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [I]
    156. Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
    157. Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855)
    158. Alan Moore (1953- )
    159. Ward Moore (1903-1978)
    160. Jan Morris (1926- )
    161. John L. Motley (1814-1877)
    162. Murasaki Shikibu (c.973-c.1014/25)
    163. Les Murray (1938-2019)
    164. Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
    165. Peter F. Neumeyer (1929- )
    166. Eric Newby (1919-2006)
    167. Charles Nicholl (1904-1991)
    168. Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986)
    169. Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000)
    170. Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)
    171. Clifford Odets (1906–1963)
    172. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
    173. George Orwell (1903-1950) [II]
    174. Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
    175. Harold Owen (1897-1971)
    176. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
    177. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
    178. Francis Parkman (1823-1893)
    179. John Payne (1842-1916)
    180. Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)
    181. Patrick Pearse (1879-1916)
    182. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [I]
    183. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
    184. Dudley Pope (1925–1997)
    185. Cole Porter (1891-1964)
    186. William H. Prescott (1796-1859)
    187. Harry Price (1881-1948)
    188. John Pudney (1909-1977)
    189. Manuel Puig (1932-1990)
    190. Luigi Pulci (1432-1484)
    191. Jonathan Raban (1942-2023)
    192. Herbert Read (1893-1968)
    193. Henry Reed (1914-1986)
    194. Douglas Reeman [Alexander Kent] (1924–2017)
    195. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005)
    196. Keith Roberts (1935-2000)
    197. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
    198. Alan Ross (1922-2001)
    199. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986)
    200. Damon Runyon (1880-1946)
    201. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974)
    202. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)
    203. J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
    204. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [II]
    205. James Schuyler (1923-1991)
    206. Dr. Seuss (1904–1991)
    207. Tim Severin (1940- )
    208. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [I]
    209. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [II]
    210. Shi Nai'an (c.1296-1372)
    211. Eric Shipton (1907-1977)
    212. Kendrick Smithyman (1922-1995)
    213. Frank Smythe (1900-1949)
    214. Charles Sorley (1895-1915)
    215. Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014)
    216. James Stephens (1880-1950) [I]
    217. James Stephens (1882-1950) [II]
    218. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
    219. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
    220. Julian Stockwin (1944- )
    221. Showell Styles (1908-2005)
    222. Tacitus (c.56–c.120)
    223. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
    224. Alessandro Tassoni (1565-1635)
    225. Paul Theroux (1941- )
    226. Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)
    227. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [II]
    228. Hugh Thomas (1931-2017)
    229. Flora Thompson (1876-1947)
    230. Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE)
    231. H. W. Tilman (1898-1977)
    232. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
    233. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [I]
    234. Henry Treece (1911-1966)
    235. Mark Twain (1837-1910)
    236. Jack Vance (1916-2013)
    237. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- )
    238. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
    239. A. P. Wavell (1883-1950)
    240. Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
    241. Charles Williams (1886-1945)
    242. Tad Williams (1957- )
    243. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
    244. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
    245. Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582)
    246. W. B. Yeats (1865-1938) [I]
    247. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) [II]

  2. Series & Themes:

    1. Alternate Histories (1953-2011)
    2. American Civil War (1861-1865) [II]
    3. American Theatre: The Heroic Age
    4. Ancient Indian Epics
    5. The Arabian Nights in Spanish (1934-2016)
    6. The Bible [II]
    7. The Bodley Head Editions (1958-1994)
    8. British Ballads (1765- )
    9. Children's Poetry Books (1789- )
    10. Clarkson N. Potter Annotated Editions (1960-1986)
    11. The Classic Chinese Novel [III]
    12. The Classic Chinese Novel [IV]
    13. D-Day (6 June, 1944)
    14. Easter 1916
    15. Eighteenth Century Books
    16. Faerie
    17. The Folio Society (1947- ) [I]
    18. Greek Historians (c.100 BCE-100 CE)
    19. Harvard UP Annotated Editions (2009-2022)
    20. Himalayan Exploration (1921-1953)
    21. Homer (fl. c.800 BCE)
    22. The Icelandic Sagas (1960-2002) [I]
    23. The Icelandic Sagas (1997) [II]
    24. The Italian Epic (1320-1622)
    25. The Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- )
    26. Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s)
    27. The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860)
    28. Light Verse
    29. The Loeb Classics (1912- )
    30. Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- )
    31. Modern British Travel Writing
    32. Napoleon (1769-1821)
    33. Nautical Historical Fiction (1789-1815)
    34. The New York School of Poets
    35. New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021)
    36. Noah's Ark]
    37. The Nonesuch Library (1927-77)
    38. Norton Annotated Editions (2000-2021)
    39. Omnibuses (1930-1985)
    40. Oxford Books of Verse (1900- )
    41. Oxford English Texts (1912- )
    42. Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- )
    43. Pastoral
    44. Penguin English Poets (1971-1983)
    45. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [II]
    46. The Reynard Library (1950-71)
    47. Scottish Poets (1425- )
    48. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
    49. Spies
    50. World War I Poets (1914-18) [II]
    51. 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. Joan Aiken (1924-2004)
    2. Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
    3. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
    4. Martin Amis (1949-2023)
    5. Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
    6. Geoffrey Ashe (1923-2022)
    7. James Baldwin (1924-1987)
    8. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) [II]
    9. Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) [II]
    10. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) [II]
    11. Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
    12. Branwell Brontë (1817-1848)
    13. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
    14. Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
    15. Alan Brunton (1946-2002)
    16. Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) [I]
    17. Truman Capote (1924-1984)
    18. Orson Scott Card (1951- )
    19. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
    20. C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933)
    21. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [I]
    22. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [II]
    23. Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) [I]
    24. John Clare (1793-1864) [II]
    25. Michael Cox (1948-2009)
    26. Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
    27. Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972)
    28. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
    29. Guillermo del Toro (1964- )
    30. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
    31. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
    32. Peter Dickinson (1927-2015)
    33. Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)
    34. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    35. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
    36. Constance Garnett (1861-1946)
    37. David Garnett (1892-1981)
    38. Richard Garnett (1923-2013)
    39. William Golding (1911-1993)
    40. Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985)
    41. Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961)
    42. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
    43. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
    44. Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)
    45. E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
    46. Dylan Horrocks (1966- )
    47. Tony Horwitz (1958-2019)
    48. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
    49. Henry James (1843-1916) [I]
    50. Henry James (1843-1916) [II]
    51. James Joyce (1882-1941)
    52. Jan Kemp (1949- )
    53. Sidney Keyes (1922-1943)
    54. Stephen King (1947- )
    55. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    56. T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
    57. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) [I]
    58. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) [I]
    59. Robert Lowell (1917-1977) [II]]
    60. Arthur Machen (1863-1947)
    61. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
    62. Margaret Mahy (1936-2012)
    63. Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
    64. Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)
    65. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [III]
    66. William Mayne (1928-2010)
    67. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [II]
    68. A. A. Milne (1882-1956)
    69. Christopher Milne (1920-1996)
    70. Alice Munro (1931–2024)
    71. E. Nesbit (1858-1924)
    72. John Julius Norwich (1929–2018)
    73. Tim O'Brien (1946- )
    74. Zoë Oldenbourg (1916–2002)
    75. George Orwell (1903-1950) [I]
    76. Hershel Parker (1935- )
    77. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [II]
    78. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
    79. Pu Songling (1640-1715)
    80. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)
    81. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
    82. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)]
    83. Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
    84. Steven Runciman (1903-2000)
    85. Lutz Seiler (1963- )
    86. Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
    87. Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [II]
    88. Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
    89. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
    90. Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992)
    91. Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862)
    92. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [II]
    93. Robert van Gulik (1910-1967)
    94. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- )
    95. Jules Verne (1828-1905)
    96. Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
    97. Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
    98. Rex Warner (1905-1986)
    99. Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
    100. Tad Williams (1957- )
    101. Colin Wilson (1931-2013)
    102. Herman Wouk (1915-2019)
    103. 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. Modern Poets in English (1854-1981)
    15. Penguin Modern European Poets (1958-1984)
    16. Penguin Modern Poets (1962-1983)
    17. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [I]
    18. Poetry First Editions (Penguin) (1999)
    19. Poetry New Zealand (1951-2022)
    20. The Poetry Reprint Series (1975)
    21. Modern Poets in English Translation (1854-1981)
    22. Psychogeography
    23. Russian Foreign Languages Publishing House (1946-64)
    24. Sir John Lubbock's 100 Books (1887)
    25. World War I Poets (1914-18) [I]
    26. 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)