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)




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Sunday

Bibliographies


Tim Bowling: The Book Collector (2008)


(Alphabetical)

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

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Famous Authors

Authors:

    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. Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) [M]
  26. James Baldwin (1924-1987) [M]
  27. J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) [B] [M]
  28. Russell Banks (1940-2023) [B]
  29. Owen Barfield (1898-1997) [A]
  30. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) [C] [F]
  31. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) [C]
  32. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) [A] [M]
  33. James K. Baxter (1926-1972) [B]
  34. Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) [B]
  35. Antony Beevor (1946- ) [A]
  36. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) [A]
  37. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) [B]
  38. E. F. Benson (1867-1940) [B]
  39. Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) [A]
  40. John Berryman (1914-1972) [B]
  41. John Betjeman (1906-1984) [A]
  42. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) [B]
  43. R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900) [B]
  44. Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) [B] [M]
  45. William Blake (1757-1827) [C]
  46. Karen Blixen ['Isak Dinesen'] (1885-1962) [B]
  47. Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) [A]
  48. Matteo Maria Boiardo (1440-1494) [A]
  49. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) [A] [C] [F]
  50. George Borrow (1803-1881) [B] [M]
  51. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) [B] [M]
  52. Joe Brainard (1942-1994) [A]
  53. Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) [A]
  54. Gerald Brenan (1894-1987) [A]
  55. Katharine M. Briggs (1898-1980) [A1 [A2]
  56. Anne Brontë (1820-1849) [B] [M]
  57. Branwell Brontë (1817-1848) [M]
  58. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) [B] [M]
  59. Emily Brontë (1818-1848) [B] [M]
  60. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) [A]
  61. Alan Brunton (1946-2002) [M]
  62. Bill Bryson (1951- ) [A]
  63. John Buchan (1875-1940) [A] [B]
  64. Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) [B]
  65. Kenneth Bulmer [Adam Hardy] (1921-2005) [A]
  66. Fanny Burney (1752-1840) [A]
  67. Charles Burns (1955- ) [A]
  68. William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) [A]
  69. Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) [B] [F] [M]
  70. Samuel Butler (1835-1902) [N]
  71. Lord Byron (1788-1824) [A] [B]
  72. Robert Byron (1905-1941) [A]

  73. C

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

  117. D

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

  150. E

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

  157. F

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

  180. G

  181. William Gaddis (1922-1998) [B]
  182. Neil Gaiman (1960- ) [A] [B] [M]
  183. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) [A] [F]
  184. Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca (1539-1616) [A]
  185. Alan Garner (1934- ) [B] [M]
  186. Constance Garnett (1861-1946) [M]
  187. David Garnett (1892-1981) [M]
  188. Richard Garnett (1923-2013) [M]
  189. Maurice Gee (1931- ) [B]
  190. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) [A]
  191. Ian Gibson (1939- ) [A]
  192. W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) [A]
  193. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) [A]
  194. Philip Gluckman (1954- ) [N]
  195. William Golding (1911-1993) [M]
  196. Edward Gorey (1925-2000) [A] [B] [M]
  197. Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) [B]
  198. Harry Graham (1874-1936) [A]
  199. Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) [A]
  200. Günter Grass (1927-2015) [B]
  201. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [A1] [A2] [A3] [M]
  202. Graham Greene (1904-1991) [A] [B] [M1] [M2]
  203. Hugh Greene (1910-1987) [A]
  204. Lady Gregory (1852-1932) [A]
  205. Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) [M]
  206. Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) [A]
  207. Heinz Grotzfeld [F]
  208. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) [A]

  209. H

  210. Husain Haddawy [F]
  211. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) [A]
  212. Russell Haley (1934-2016) [B] [M]
  213. Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) [M]
  214. Andras Hamori [F]
  215. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) [A]
  216. Michael Harlow (1930- ) [CNZ]
  217. Wilson Harris (1921-2018) [B]
  218. Craig Harrison (1942- ) [B] [M] [N]
  219. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972) [B]
  220. Max Hastings (1945- ) [A]
  221. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) [M]
  222. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) [B] [M]
  223. Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) [B] [M]
  224. Joseph Heller (1923-1999) [B]
  225. Lillian Hellman (1905–1984) [A] [M]
  226. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) [B]
  227. O. Henry (1862-1910) [B]
  228. Frank Herbert (1920-1986) [B] [M]
  229. Hergé (1907-1983) [A]
  230. Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BCE) [A]
  231. Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) [B] [M]
  232. Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016) [B]
  233. Susan Hill (1942- ) [B]
  234. Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) [A]
  235. Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913) [A]
  236. William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) [B]
  237. E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) [M]
  238. James Hogg (1770-1835) [M]
  239. Richard Holmes (1945- ) [B]
  240. Henry Honor [N]
  241. Josef Horovitz (1974-1931) [F]
  242. Dylan Horrocks (1966- ) [M] [N]
  243. Tony Horwitz (1958-2019) [M]
  244. Geoffrey Household (1900-1988) [A]
  245. David Howarth (1912-1991) [A]
  246. Susan Howe (1937- ) [B]
  247. Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) [B]
  248. W. H. Hudson (1841-1922) [A]
  249. Ted Hughes (1930-1998) [B] [M]
  250. T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) [A]
  251. John Hunt (1910-1998) [A]
  252. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) [A] [B]
  253. Robin Hyde (1906-1939) [C]
  254. Samuel Hynes (1924–2019) [B]

  255. I

  256. Witi Ihimaera (1944- ) [F]
  257. Washington Irving (1783-1859) [A]
  258. Margaret Irwin (1889–1967) [B] [M]
  259. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) [B] [M]

  260. J

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

  271. K

  272. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) [B] [M]
  273. Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) [B]
  274. John Keats (1795-1821) [A]
  275. Donald Keene (1922-2019) [C]
  276. Jan Kemp (1949- ) [B] [M]
  277. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) [A]
  278. Sidney Keyes (1922-1943) [M] [A]
  279. Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982) [B]
  280. Abdelfattah Kilito (1945- ) [F]
  281. Francis Kilvert (1840-1879) [A]
  282. Ross King (1962- ) [A]
  283. Stephen King (1947- ) [A1] [A2] [A3] [M]
  284. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) [A] [B] [M]
  285. Elizabeth Knox (1959- ) [N]
  286. Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) [A]
  287. Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) [B] [M]
  288. Jerzy Kosiński (1933-1991) [M]
  289. Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979) [A]
  290. Leicester Kyle (1937-2006) [C] [The Collected Poems of Leicester Hugo Kyle]

  291. L

  292. Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828) [A]
  293. Dewey Lambdin (1945-2021) [A]
  294. Edward W. Lane (1801-1876) [F]
  295. Philip Larkin (1922-1985) [A] [B]
  296. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) [B]
  297. T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) [M]
  298. Edward Lear (1812-1888) [A]
  299. John le Carré (1931-2020) [A]
  300. Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917) [A]
  301. J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) [B] [M]
  302. Michele Leggott (1956- ) [A] [CNZ] [Michele 2021]
  303. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) [A] [B] [F] [M]
  304. Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) [B] [F] [M]
  305. Primo Levi (1919-1987) [B] [M]
  306. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) [C]
  307. Alun Lewis (1915-1944) [A]
  308. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) [A] [A2]
  309. W. H. Lewis (1895-1973) [A]
  310. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) [B]
  311. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1965) [A]
  312. Graham Lindsay (1952- ) [CNZ]
  313. Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) [A]
  314. Deborah Lipstadt (1947- ) [A]
  315. Jack London (1876-1916) [B]
  316. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) [A]
  317. Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) [M]
  318. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) [A [M]
  319. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) [B] [M1] [M2]
  320. Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) [B]
  321. Luo Guanzhong (c.1330–1400 or c.1280–1360) [A]

  322. M

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

  363. N

  364. Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) [A] [B] [C] [M]
  365. Ogden Nash (1902-1971) [A]
  366. Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) [A] [B]
  367. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) [M1] [M2]
  368. E. Nesbit (1858-1924) [B] [M]
  369. Peter F. Neumeyer (1929- ) [A]
  370. Eric Newby (1919-2006) [A]
  371. Charles Nicholl (1904-1991) [A]
  372. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) [C]
  373. Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986)[A]
  374. John Julius Norwich (1929–2018) [M]

  375. O

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

  389. P

  390. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) [A]
  391. Hershel Parker (1935-2026) [M]
  392. Francis Parkman (1823-1893) [A]
  393. Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) [M]
  394. John Payne (1842-1916) [A]
  395. Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) [A]
  396. Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) [A]
  397. Georges Perec (1936-1982) [B] [M]
  398. Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) [M]
  399. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [A] [M1] [M2]
  400. David Pinault [F]
  401. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) [A] [B]
  402. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) [F] [M]
  403. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) [A] [B]
  404. Dudley Pope (1925–1997) [A]
  405. Cole Porter (1891-1964) [A]
  406. Tim Powers (1952- ) [B] [M]
  407. John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) [B] [M]
  408. T. F. Powys (1875-1953) [B]
  409. Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939) [B]
  410. John Prebble (1915-2001) [B]
  411. William H. Prescott (1796-1859) [A]
  412. Harry Price (1881-1948) [A]
  413. Christopher Priest (1943-2024) [B]
  414. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) [B] [M]
  415. Pu Songling (1640-1715) [M]
  416. John Pudney (1909-1977) [A]
  417. Manuel Puig (1932-1990) [A]
  418. Luigi Pulci (1432-1484) [A]

  419. Q

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

  421. R

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

  443. S

  444. Umberto Saba (1883-1957) [M]
  445. Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) [M]
  446. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) [A]
  447. J. D. Salinger (1919-2010) [A]
  448. Frank Sargeson (1903-1982) [B]
  449. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [A] [B] [M]
  450. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) [B] [M]
  451. James Schuyler (1923-1991) [A]
  452. Rosie Scott (1948-2017) [N]
  453. Walter Scott (1771-1832) [A]
  454. W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) [A] [B] [M]
  455. Lutz Seiler (1963- ) [M]
  456. Sei Shōnagon (c.966–1017) [C]
  457. Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) [A]
  458. Tim Severin (1940- ) [A]
  459. Maurice Shadbolt (1932-2004) [B]
  460. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [A1] [A2]
  461. Tina Shaw (1961- ) [F]
  462. Mary Shelley (1797-1851) [M]
  463. Shi Nai'an (c.1296-1372) [A]
  464. Eric Shipton (1907-1977) [A]
  465. Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [B] [M]
  466. Iain Sinclair (1943- ) [B] [M]
  467. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) [B]
  468. Stevie Smith (1902-1971) [B]
  469. Kendrick Smithyman (1922-1995) [A]
  470. Frank Smythe (1900-1949) [A]
  471. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) [A] [B]
  472. Charles Sorley (1895-1915) [A]
  473. Stephen Spender (1909-1995) [M]
  474. Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014) [A]
  475. C. K. Stead (1932- ) [B] [N]
  476. John Steinbeck (1902-1968) [B]
  477. George Steiner (1929–2020) [B]
  478. Stendhal (1783–1842) [B]
  479. James Stephens (1880-1950) [A1] [A2]
  480. John L. Stephens (1805-1852) [A] [M]
  481. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) [A]
  482. Mary Stewart (1916-2014) [B] [M]
  483. Julian Stockwin (1944- ) [A]
  484. Bram Stoker (1847-1912) [B] [M]
  485. Irving Stone (1903-1989) [B]
  486. T. G. H. Strehlow (1908–1978) [B]
  487. Showell Styles (1908-2005) [A]
  488. William Styron (1925-2006) [B]
  489. Montague Summers (1880-1948) [B]
  490. Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) [M]

  491. T

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

  522. U

  523. Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) [M]

  524. V

  525. Jack Vance (1916-2013) [A]
  526. Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) [M]
  527. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- ) [A] [M]
  528. Jules Verne (1828-1905) [M1] [M2]
  529. Gore Vidal (1925-2012) [M]
  530. Julius Vogel (1835-1899) [N]
  531. Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) [B]
  532. Richard von Sturmer (1957- ) [C]

  533. W

  534. Helen Waddell (1889-1965) [B]
  535. H. Russell Wakefield (1888-1964) [B]
  536. Derek Walcott (1930-2017) [CNZ] [M]
  537. Arthur Waley (1889-1966) [B] [M]
  538. Rex Warner (1905-1986) [M]
  539. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) [A] [B]
  540. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) [B]
  541. A. P. Wavell (1883-1950) [A]
  542. Ian Wedde (1946- ) [CNZ]
  543. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) [B] [F] [M]
  544. Albert Wendt (1939– ) [B] [M] [N]
  545. Patrick White (1912-1990) [B]
  546. T. H. White (1906-1964) [B]
  547. Summer Wigmore (2013- ) [N]
  548. Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) [M]
  549. Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) [A]
  550. Charles Williams (1886-1945) [A]
  551. Tad Williams (1957- ) [A] [M]
  552. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) [A]
  553. Colin Wilson (1931-2013) [M]
  554. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) [B]
  555. Emily Wilson (1955- ) [A]
  556. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) [A] [B]
  557. Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) [A] [B] [M]
  558. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) [B]
  559. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) [B] [C]
  560. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) [B]
  561. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) [B1] [B2]
  562. Herman Wouk (1915-2019) [M]
  563. Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582) [A]
  564. John Wyndham (1903-1969) [B]

  565. Y

  566. Frances A. Yates (1899-1981) [B] [M]
  567. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) [A1] [A2] [B]
  568. Banana Yoshimoto (1964- ) [B]
  569. 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. Diamond Cabinet Editions (1827-35) [A]
  23. Easter 1916 [A]
  24. Eighteenth Century Books [A]
  25. Faerie [A]
  26. Fairy Tales (1697- ) [M]
  27. The Folio Society (1947- ) [A] [M]
  28. Greek Historians (c.100 BCE-100 CE) [A]
  29. The Hakluyt Society (1846- ) [A]
  30. Harvard UP Annotated Editions (2009-2022) [A]
  31. Himalayan Exploration (1921-1953) [A]
  32. Homer (fl. c.800 BCE) [A]
  33. The Icelandic Sagas (1960-2002) [A1] (1997) [A2]
  34. The Italian Epic (1320-1622) [A]
  35. Kalila and Dimna (c.800 BCE) [M]
  36. The Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- ) [A]
  37. Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s) [A]
  38. The Library of America (1979- ) [M]
  39. The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860) [A]
  40. Light Verse [A]
  41. Lives of the Novelists (2011) [A]
  42. The Loeb Classics (1912- ) [A]
  43. Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- ) [A]
  44. Modern British Travel Writing [A]
  45. Modern Poets in English Translation (1854-1981) [M]
  46. The Muses' Library: 1st Series (26 vols - 1891-1940) / 2nd Series (16 vols - 1949-1980) [B]
  47. Napoleon (1769-1821) [A]
  48. Nautical Historical Fiction (1789-1815) [A]
  49. The New York School of Poets [A]
  50. New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021) [A]
  51. NZSF Chronology (1863-2020) [N]
  52. Noah's Ark [A]
  53. The Nonesuch Library (1927-77) [A]
  54. Norton Annotated Editions (2000-2021) [A]
  55. Omnibuses (1930-1985) [A]
  56. Oxford Books of Verse (1900- ) [A]
  57. Oxford English Texts (1912- ) [A]
  58. Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- ) [A]
  59. Pastoral [A]
  60. Penguin English Poets (1971-1983) [A]
  61. Penguin Modern European Poets (1958-1984) [M]
  62. Penguin Modern Poets (1962-1983) [M]
  63. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [A] [M]
  64. Poetry First Editions (Penguin) (1999) [M]
  65. Poetry New Zealand (1951-2022) [B] [M]
  66. The Poetry Reprint Series (1975) [M]
  67. Psychogeography [M]
  68. The Reynard Library (1950-71) [A]
  69. Russian Foreign Languages Publishing House (1946-64) [M]
  70. Scottish Poets (1425- ) [A]
  71. Sir John Lubbock's 100 Books (1887) [M]
  72. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) [A]
  73. Spies [A]
  74. World War I Novels (1918-38) [M]
  75. World War I Poets (1914-18) [A] [M]
  76. World War II Anthologies (1939-45) [A]
  77. World War II Novels (1948-83) [M]
  78. 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. Richard Holmes (1945- )
    15. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) [M]
    16. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
    17. James Joyce (1882-1941)
    18. Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982)
    19. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
    20. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
    21. Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957)
    22. John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) [M]
    23. T. F. Powys (1875-1953)
    24. Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939)
    25. John Prebble (1915-2001)
    26. Mary Renault (1905-1983)
    27. Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) (1860–1913)
    28. W. M. Thackeray (1811-1863)
    29. Henry Torrens (1806–1852) [M]
    30. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
    31. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
    32. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969)
    33. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
    34. 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. Anne Carson (1950- )
    5. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) [M]
    6. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
    7. Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883)
    8. Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016)
    9. Susan Howe (1937- )
    10. Ted Hughes (1930-1998) [M]
    11. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) [M]
    12. Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
    13. Robert Lowell (1917-1977) [M]
    14. John Masefield (1878-1967) [M]
    15. William Morris (1834–1896)
    16. Paul Muldoon (1951- )
    17. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
    18. Peter Reading (1946-2011)
    19. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [M]
    20. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
    21. Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
    22. D. M. Thomas (1935-2023)
    23. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) [M]
    24. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [M]
    25. R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) [M]
    26. Henry Treece (1911-1966)
    27. Helen Waddell (1889-1965)
    28. 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. Christopher Priest (1943-2024)
    13. Robert Silverberg (1935- )
    14. Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
    15. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) [M]
    16. Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) [M]
    17. 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. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
    59. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
    60. David Donachie (1944-2023)
    61. José Donoso (1924-1996)
    62. Keith Douglas (1920-1944)
    63. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
    64. Chris Durbin (1955- )
    65. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) [II]
    66. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) [III]
    67. Gavin Ewart (1916–1995) [I]
    68. Gavin Ewart (1916-1995) [II]
    69. A. R. D. Fairburn (1904–1957)
    70. Rowena Farre (1921-1979)
    71. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    72. Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011)
    73. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
    74. Ian Fleming (1908-1964)
    75. Peter Fleming (1907-1971)
    76. Shelby Foote (1916-2005)
    77. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
    78. C. S. Forester (1899-1966) [II]
    79. Frederick Forsyth (1938- )
    80. Ronald Fraser (1930-2012)
    81. Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012)
    82. Roy Fuller (1912-1991)
    83. Paul Fussell (1924-2012)
    84. Neil Gaiman (1960- )
    85. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) [II]
    86. Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca (1539-1616)
    87. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
    88. Ian Gibson (1939- )
    89. W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911)
    90. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
    91. Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
    92. Harry Graham (1874-1936)
    93. Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
    94. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [II]
    95. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [III]
    96. Graham Greene (1904-1991) [II]
    97. Hugh Greene (1910-1987)
    98. Lady Gregory (1852-1932)
    99. Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
    100. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
    101. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
    102. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
    103. Max Hastings (1945- )
    104. Hergé (1907-1983)
    105. Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BCE)
    106. Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)
    107. Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913)
    108. Geoffrey Household (1900-1988)
    109. David Howarth (1912-1991)
    110. W. H. Hudson (1841-1922)
    111. T. E. Hulme (1883-1917)
    112. John Hunt (1910-1998)
    113. Washington Irving (1783-1859)
    114. Henry James (1843-1916) [III]
    115. M. R. James (1862-1936) [II]
    116. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887)
    117. David Jones (1895-1974)
    118. S. T. Joshi (1958- )
    119. John Keats (1795-1821)
    120. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
    121. Sidney Keyes (1922–1943)
    122. Francis Kilvert (1840-1879)
    123. Ross King (1962- )
    124. Stephen King (1947- )
    125. Stephen King's Dark Tower (2007-2017)
    126. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
    127. Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)
    128. Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979)
    129. Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
    130. Dewey Lambdin (1945-2021)
    131. Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
    132. Edward Lear (1812-1888)
    133. John le Carré (1931-2020)
    134. Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917)
    135. Michele Leggott (1956- )
    136. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    137. Alun Lewis (1915-1944)
    138. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) [I]
    139. C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) [II]
    140. W. H. Lewis (1895-1973)
    141. Abraham Lincoln(1809-1965)
    142. Norman Lindsay (1879–1969)
    143. Deborah Lipstadt (1947- )
    144. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
    145. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937)
    146. Luo Guanzhong (c.1330–1400 or c.1280–1360)
    147. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
    148. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)
    149. George Mallory (1886-1924)
    150. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [II]
    151. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
    152. Don Marquis (1878–1937)
    153. George R. R. Martin (1948- )
    154. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
    155. John Masefield (1878-1967)
    156. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [I]
    157. Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
    158. Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855)
    159. Alan Moore (1953- )
    160. Ward Moore (1903-1978)
    161. Jan Morris (1926- )
    162. John L. Motley (1814-1877)
    163. Murasaki Shikibu (c.973-c.1014/25)
    164. Les Murray (1938-2019)
    165. Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
    166. Peter F. Neumeyer (1929- )
    167. Eric Newby (1919-2006)
    168. Charles Nicholl (1904-1991)
    169. Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986)
    170. Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000)
    171. Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)
    172. Clifford Odets (1906–1963)
    173. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
    174. George Orwell (1903-1950) [II]
    175. Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
    176. Harold Owen (1897-1971)
    177. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
    178. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
    179. Francis Parkman (1823-1893)
    180. John Payne (1842-1916)
    181. Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)
    182. Patrick Pearse (1879-1916)
    183. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [I]
    184. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
    185. Dudley Pope (1925–1997)
    186. Cole Porter (1891-1964)
    187. William H. Prescott (1796-1859)
    188. Harry Price (1881-1948)
    189. John Pudney (1909-1977)
    190. Manuel Puig (1932-1990)
    191. Luigi Pulci (1432-1484)
    192. Jonathan Raban (1942-2023)
    193. Herbert Read (1893-1968)
    194. Henry Reed (1914-1986)
    195. Douglas Reeman [Alexander Kent] (1924–2017)
    196. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005)
    197. Keith Roberts (1935-2000)
    198. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
    199. Alan Ross (1922-2001)
    200. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986)
    201. Damon Runyon (1880-1946)
    202. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974)
    203. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)
    204. J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
    205. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [II]
    206. James Schuyler (1923-1991)
    207. Walter Scott (1771-1832)
    208. Dr. Seuss (1904–1991)
    209. Tim Severin (1940- )
    210. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [I]
    211. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [II]
    212. Shi Nai'an (c.1296-1372)
    213. Eric Shipton (1907-1977)
    214. Kendrick Smithyman (1922-1995)
    215. Frank Smythe (1900-1949)
    216. Charles Sorley (1895-1915)
    217. Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014)
    218. James Stephens (1880-1950) [I]
    219. James Stephens (1882-1950) [II]
    220. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
    221. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
    222. Julian Stockwin (1944- )
    223. Showell Styles (1908-2005)
    224. Tacitus (c.56–c.120)
    225. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
    226. Alessandro Tassoni (1565-1635)
    227. Paul Theroux (1941- )
    228. Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)
    229. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [II]
    230. Hugh Thomas (1931-2017)
    231. Flora Thompson (1876-1947)
    232. Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE)
    233. H. W. Tilman (1898-1977)
    234. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
    235. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [I]
    236. Henry Treece (1911-1966)
    237. Mark Twain (1837-1910)
    238. Jack Vance (1916-2013)
    239. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- )
    240. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
    241. A. P. Wavell (1883-1950)
    242. Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
    243. Charles Williams (1886-1945)
    244. Tad Williams (1957- )
    245. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
    246. Emily Wilson (1955- )
    247. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
    248. Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582)
    249. W. B. Yeats (1865-1938) [I]
    250. 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. Diamond Cabinet Editions (1827-35)
    15. Easter 1916
    16. Eighteenth Century Books
    17. Faerie
    18. The Folio Society (1947- ) [I]
    19. Greek Historians (c.100 BCE-100 CE)
    20. Harvard UP Annotated Editions (2009-2022)
    21. Himalayan Exploration (1921-1953)
    22. Homer (fl. c.800 BCE)
    23. The Icelandic Sagas (1960-2002) [I]
    24. The Icelandic Sagas (1997) [II]
    25. The Italian Epic (1320-1622)
    26. The Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- )
    27. Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s)
    28. The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860)
    29. Light Verse
    30. The Loeb Classics (1912- )
    31. Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- )
    32. Modern British Travel Writing
    33. Napoleon (1769-1821)
    34. Nautical Historical Fiction (1789-1815)
    35. The New York School of Poets
    36. New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021)
    37. Noah's Ark]
    38. The Nonesuch Library (1927-77)
    39. Norton Annotated Editions (2000-2021)
    40. Omnibuses (1930-1985)
    41. Oxford Books of Verse (1900- )
    42. Oxford English Texts (1912- )
    43. Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- )
    44. Pastoral
    45. Penguin English Poets (1971-1983)
    46. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [II]
    47. The Reynard Library (1950-71)
    48. Scottish Poets (1425- )
    49. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
    50. Spies
    51. World War I Poets (1914-18) [II]
    52. 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


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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. Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973)
    8. James Baldwin (1924-1987)
    9. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) [II]
    10. Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) [II]
    11. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) [II]
    12. Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
    13. Branwell Brontë (1817-1848)
    14. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
    15. Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
    16. Alan Brunton (1946-2002)
    17. Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) [I]
    18. Truman Capote (1924-1984)
    19. Orson Scott Card (1951- )
    20. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
    21. C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933)
    22. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [I]
    23. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [II]
    24. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [III]
    25. Aimé Césaire (1913-2008)
    26. Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) [I]
    27. John Clare (1793-1864) [II]
    28. Michael Cox (1948-2009)
    29. Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
    30. Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972)
    31. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
    32. Guillermo del Toro (1964- )
    33. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
    34. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
    35. Peter Dickinson (1927-2015)
    36. Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)
    37. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    38. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
    39. Constance Garnett (1861-1946)
    40. David Garnett (1892-1981)
    41. Richard Garnett (1923-2013)
    42. William Golding (1911-1993)
    43. Graham Greene (1904-1991)
    44. Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985)
    45. Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961)
    46. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
    47. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
    48. Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)
    49. E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
    50. James Hogg (1770-1835)
    51. Dylan Horrocks (1966- )
    52. Tony Horwitz (1958-2019)
    53. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
    54. Henry James (1843-1916) [I]
    55. Henry James (1843-1916) [II]
    56. James Joyce (1882-1941)
    57. Jan Kemp (1949- )
    58. Sidney Keyes (1922-1943)
    59. Stephen King (1947- )
    60. Jerzy Kosiński (1933-1991)
    61. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    62. T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
    63. Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)
    64. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) [I]
    65. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) [I]
    66. Robert Lowell (1917-1977) [II]]
    67. Arthur Machen (1863-1947)
    68. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
    69. Margaret Mahy (1936-2012)
    70. Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
    71. Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)
    72. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [III]
    73. William Mayne (1928-2010)
    74. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [II]
    75. A. A. Milne (1882-1956)
    76. Christopher Milne (1920-1996)
    77. Eugenio Montale (1896-1981)
    78. Alice Munro (1931–2024)
    79. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) [I]
    80. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) [II]
    81. E. Nesbit (1858-1924)
    82. John Julius Norwich (1929–2018)
    83. Tim O'Brien (1946- )
    84. Zoë Oldenbourg (1916–2002)
    85. George Orwell (1903-1950) [I]
    86. Hershel Parker (1935- )
    87. Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
    88. Saint-John Perse (1887-1975)
    89. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [II]
    90. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [III]
    91. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
    92. Pu Songling (1640-1715)
    93. Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)
    94. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)
    95. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
    96. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)
    97. Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
    98. Steven Runciman (1903-2000)
    99. Umberto Saba (1883-1957)
    100. Nelly Sachs (1891-1970)
    101. Lutz Seiler (1963- )
    102. Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
    103. Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [II]
    104. Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
    105. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
    106. Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992)
    107. Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862)
    108. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [II]
    109. Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)
    110. Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970)
    111. Robert van Gulik (1910-1967)
    112. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- )
    113. Jules Verne (1828-1905)
    114. Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
    115. Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
    116. Rex Warner (1905-1986)
    117. Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
    118. Tad Williams (1957- )
    119. Colin Wilson (1931-2013)
    120. Herman Wouk (1915-2019)
    121. 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)


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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)




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