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Monday

Acquisitions

Bach Books

Contents:

123 - [8/11/2024] - Claire Harman: Robert Louis Stevenson (2005)
122 - [6/11/2024] - Rudyard Kipling: The Cause of Humanity (2019)
121 - [9/9/2024] - William Blake: A Grain of Sand (1967)
120 - [22/8/2024] - Robert McCrum: Wodehouse: A Life (2004)
119 - [12/8/2024] - Ernest Hemingway: Men at War (1942)
118 - [31/7/2024] - James Booth: Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love (2014)
117 - [24/7/2024] - Moore & Campbell: The From Hell Companion (2013)
116 - [10/11/2021] - Gorey & Neumeyer: Floating Worlds (2011)
115 - [5/7/2024] - Hergé: Vol 714 pour Sydney (1968)
114 - [13/6/2024] - Eric Shipton: The Six Mountain-Travel Books (1985)
113 - [23/5/2024] - A. N. Wilson: A Jealous Ghost (2005)
112 - [15/5/2024] - John Betjeman: The Illustrated Summoned by Bells (1989)
111 - [2/5/2024] - Irving Finkel: The Ark Before Noah (2014)
110 - [2/5/2024] - Deborah Lipstadt: Denial: Holocaust History on Trial (2016)
109 - [23/4/2024] - Patrick Pearse: Songs of the Irish Rebels (1918)
108 - [17/4/2024] - Paul Bowles: Up Above the World (1966)
107 - [8/4/2024] - Jimmy Breslin: Damon Runyon: A Life (1991)
106 - [9/4/2024] - John Sutherland: Lives of the Novelists (2011)
105 - [2/4/2024] - La Pérouse: Journal, 1785-1788 (1994-95)
104 - [22/3/2024] - Ursula K. Le Guin: Five Novels (2024)
103 - [1/3/2024] - Stephen King's The Dark Tower (2007-2017)
102 - [9/2/2024] - Kenneth P. Williams: Lincoln Finds a General (1949-1957)
101 - [25/12/2023] - William Faulkner: Stories (2023)
100 - [6/11/2023] - Anna Funder: Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life (2023)
99 - [6/11/2023] - James K. Baxter: Complete Poems (2022)
98 - [14/8/2023] - Mario Vargas Llosa: Harsh Times (2021)
97 - [10/8/2023] - Fanny Burney: The Diaries and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (1891)
96 - [18/7/2023] - Vita Sackville-West: The Land & The Garden (1989)
95 - [28/6/2023] - Anthony C. Yu: The Journey to the West (2012)
94 - [8/6/2023] - Hiro Arikawa: The Travelling Cat Chronicles (2017)
93 - [18/5/2023] - Winston Churchill: Thoughts and Adventures (1932)
92 - [12/5/2023] - Ron Powers: Mark Twain: A Life (2005)
91 - [27/4/2023] - Lady Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon (1816)
90 - [11/4/2023] - Ernest Bramah: The Celestial Omnibus (1963)
89 - [17/1/2023] - Alan Schom: One Hundred Days (1992)
88 - [7/3/2023] - F. Scott Fitzgerald: Jazz Age Stories (2008)
87 - [15/2/2023] - Susanna Clarke: The Ladies of Grace Adieu (2006)
86 - [31/1/2023] - John Masefield: A Book of Discoveries (1910)
85 - [29/9/2022] - W. B. Yeats: The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936)
84 - [24/1/2023] - Stephen Crane: Great Battles of the World (1901)
83 - [4/1/2023] - Thomas Hardy: The Wessex Novels (1872-91 / 1991)
82 - [16/12/22] - Alexander Pope: The Odyssey of Homer (1725-26 / 1967)
81 - [9/12/22] - Arthur Conan Doyle: Diary of an Arctic Adventure (1880 / 2012)
80 - [16/11/22] - Vasily Grossman: Stalingrad (1952-54 / 2019)
79 - [16/9/22] - Grevel Lindop: The Opium-Eater (1993)
78 - [1/11/22] - Robert Graves: The Golden Fleece (1944)
77 - [11/10/22] - Jon Stallworthy: Wilfred Owen (1974)
76 - [29/9/22] - Keith Roberts: Pavane (1968)
75 - [22/9/22] - Stephen E. Ambrose: D-Day: June 6, 1944 (1994)
74 - [28/7-12/8/2022] - W. H. Auden: Critical Editions (2001-13)
73 - [14/7/22] - James Sanders: Celluloid Skyline (2001)
72 - [11/6/22] - Francis Parkman: The Oregon Trail / Conspiracy of Pontiac (1991)
71 - [26/11/19] - Christopher Ricks: The Oxford Book of English Verse (1999)
70 - [12/6/22] - The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough (1974)
69 - [12/6/20] - Maynard Mack: Alexander Pope (1985)
68 - [14/5/22] - The Oxford Illustrated Old Testament (1968-69)
67 - [27/4/22] - John Clare: Bird Poems (1980)
66 - [6/11/20] - Ishi in Three Centuries (2003)
65 - [4/4/22] - Les Murray: Collected Poems (2018)
64 - [12-14/2/22] - A Baker's Dozen of Scottish Poets (1425-1942)
63 - [6/1/22] - Penguin English Poets (1971-83)
62 - [5/12/21] - A Baker's Dozen of Omnibuses (2021)
61 - [23/11/21] - John Keats: The Poetical Works (1866)
60 - [19/11/21] - M. R. James: Suffolk and Norfolk (1930)
59 - [21/3/21] - Barry Miles: Call Me Burroughs (2013)
58 - [30/10/21] - Lawrence Durrell: Judith: A Novel (2012)
57 - [23/10/21] - The Tale of Genji: Norton Critical Edition (2021)
56 - [12/10/21] - Thomas Mann: Six Early Stories (1997)
55 - [30/5/21] - Salvador Peña Martín: Mil y una noches (2016)
54 - [11/5/21] - John Payne: Oriental Tales (1901)
53 - [30/4/21] - Andrew Marvell: The Rehearsal Transpros'd (1971)
52 - [7/4/21] - Charles Baudelaire: Flowers of Evil (1971)
51 - [1/4/21] - The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire (2000-03)
50 - [21/2/21] - The Poetical Works of Longfellow (1908)
49 - [3/1/21] - Harry Price: The End of Borley Rectory (1946)
48 - [25/12/20] - Paul Celan: Microliths They Are, Little Stones (2020)
47 - [5/12/20] - The Landmark Ancient Historians (1996- )
46 - [28/11/20] - The Loeb Classics (1912- )
45 - [20/9/20] - Romesh Chunder Dutt: Ancient Indian Epics (1898-99)
44 - [20/9/20] - Rev. George Gilfillan: Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-60)
43 - [11/9/20] - R. Brimley Johnson: Popular British Ballads (1894)
42 - [20/6/20] - Philip & Carol Zaleski: The Fellowship (2015)
41 - [4/6/20] - W. H. Hudson: South American Romances (1930)
40 - [15/5/20] - A Baker's Dozen of 6-volume sets (2020)
39 - [20/2/20] - Tara McLeod: A Typographic Journey (2020)
38 - [10/1/20] - The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford (1961-62)
37 - [8/1/20] - Nicholas A. Basbanes: Patience & Fortitude (2001)
36 - [7/1/20] - Philip Meadows Taylor: Confessions of a Thug (1839)
35 - [3/1/20] - Michele Leggott: Mezzaluna: Selected Poems (2020)
34 - [1/12/19] - H. P. Lovecraft: Variorum Edition, ed. S. T. Joshi (2015-17)
33 - [26/11/19] - Jack Vance: The Languages of Pao (1958)
32 - [10/10/19] - Stephen King: Hearts in Suspension (2016)
31 - [14/9/19] - Daniel Defoe: Freebooters and Buccaneers (1935)
30 - [3/9/19] - The Romances of Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1948-65)
29 - [2/9/19] - A Baker's Dozen of 12-volume sets (1895-96)
28 - [1/9/19] - Aldous Huxley: Complete Essays (2000-02)
27 - [22/8/19] - Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- )
26 - [18/8/19] - Norton Annotated Editions (2000- )
25 - [25/5/19] - Katharine M. Briggs: Folk Tales of Britain (1970-71)
24 - [20/5/19] - Juvenal in English (2001)
23 - [14/5/19] - The Folio Society (1947- )
22 - [15/4/19] - The Annotated Tennyson (1969)
21 - [22/1/19] - The Greville Diary (1927)
20 - [9/1/19] - Tolstóy: Centenary Edition (1928-37)
19 - [25/12/18] - Outlaws of the Marsh (2018)
18 - [7/9/18] - Shakespeare's Sources: Raphael Holinshed (2012)
17 - [5/7/18] - Fernando Pessoa: Obras (1985 / 86)
16 - [3/4/18] - Loeb Classics: Greek Historians
15 - [2/2/18] - Ted Hughes' Collected Animal Poems (1995)
14 - [18/1/18] - Billy Budd, Sailor (2017)
13 - [10/6/16] - The Icelandic Sagas (1999 & 2002)
12 - [11/2/16] - The Nonesuch / Reynard Libraries (1927-70)
11 - [6/11/13] - The Complete Sagas of Icelanders (1997)
10 - [12/10/13] - The Novel: An Alternative History (2010-13)
9 - [9/5/13] - Royall Tyler's Tale of the Heike (2012)
8 - [9/2/13] - Craig Thompson's Habibi (2011)
7 - [1/11/12] - Chandler's Complete Novels (1989)
6 - [18/10/12] - Sebald's Selected Poems (2011)
5 - [23/9/12] - A True & Strange Story (2009)
4 - [17/9/12] - Dante's Divine Comedy (2003-05)
3 - [4/9/12] - The Civil War Reader (1957-58)
2 - [23/8/12] - Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto (1981)
1 - [20/8/12] - A Song of Ice and Fire (1996-2011)

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

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Bedside Books

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Sunday

Bibliographies

Tim Bowling: The Book Collector (2008)

Bibliographies

(Alphabetical)

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

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Famous Authors

Authors:

Kōbō Abe (1924-1993) [B]
Kathy Acker (c.1944-1997) [C] [F]
Henry Adams (1838-1918) [A]
Robert Aickman (1914-1981) [B]
Richard Aldington (1892-1962) [A]
Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) [A]
Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) [A] [M]
Martin Amis (1949- ) [M]
Hiro Arikawa (1972- ) [A]
Martin Armstrong (1882-1974) [C] [F]
Geoffrey Ashe (1923-2022) [M]
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) [B] [M]
Machado de Assis (1839-1908) [B]
Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974) [A]
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) [A] [B] [C] [M1] M2] [M3]

James Baldwin (1924-1987) [M]
J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) [B] [M]
Russell Banks (1940-2023) [B]
Owen Barfield (1898-1997) [A]
Roland Barthes (1915-1980) [C] [F]
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) [C]
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) [A] [M]
James K. Baxter (1926-1972) [B]
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) [B]
Antony Beevor (1946- ) [A]
John Berryman (1914-1972) [B]
John Betjeman (1906-1984) [A]
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) [B]
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) [B]
R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900) [B]
Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) [B] [M]
William Blake (1757-1827) [C]
Karen Blixen ['Isak Dinesen'] (1885-1962) [B]
Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) [A]
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) [A] [C] [F]
George Borrow (1803-1881) [B] [M]
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) [B] [M]
Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) [A]
Katharine M. Briggs (1898-1980) [A1 [A2]
Anne Brontë (1820-1849) [M]
Branwell Brontë (1817-1848) [M]
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) [M]
Emily Brontë (1818-1848) [M]
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) [A]
Alan Brunton (1946-2002) [M]
John Buchan (1875-1940) [B]
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) [B]
Fanny Burney (1752-1840) [A]
William Burroughs (1914-1997) [A]
Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) [B] [F] [M]
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) [N]
Lord Byron (1788-1824) [A] [B]

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

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

Martin Edmond (1952- ) [C]
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) [B]
Shūsaku Endō (1923-1996) [B]

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

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

Husain Haddawy [F]
H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) [A]
Russell Haley (1934-2016) [B] [M]
Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) [M]
Andras Hamori [F]
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) [A]
Michael Harlow (1930- ) [CNZ]
Wilson Harris (1921-2018) [B]
Craig Harrison (1942- ) [B] [M] [N]
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972) [B]
Max Hastings (1945- ) [A]
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) [M]
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) [B]
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) [B] [M]
Joseph Heller (1923-1999) [B]
Lillian Hellman (1905–1984) [M]
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) [B]
O. Henry (1862-1910) [B]
Frank Herbert (1920-1986) [B] [M]
Hergé (1907-1983) [A]
Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BCE) [A]
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) [B] [M]
Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016) [B]
Susan Hill (1942- ) [B]
Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) [A]
Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913) [A]
William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) [B]
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) [M]
Henry Honor [N]
Josef Horovitz (1974-1931) [F]
Dylan Horrocks (1966- ) [N]
David Howarth (1912-1991) [A]
Susan Howe (1937- ) [C] [CNZ]
Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) [B]
W. H. Hudson (1841-1922) [A]
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) [B] [M]
T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) [A]
John Hunt (1910-1998) [A]
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) [A] [B]
Robin Hyde (1906-1939) [C]
Samuel Hynes (1924–2019) [B]

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

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

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) [B] [M]
Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) [B]
John Keats (1795-1821) [A]
Donald Keene (1922-2019) [C]
Jan Kemp (1949- ) [B]
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) [A]
Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982) [B]
Abdelfattah Kilito (1945- ) [F]
Stephen King (1947- ) [A1] [A2] [A3] [M]
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) [A] [B] [M]
Elizabeth Knox (1959- ) [N]
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) [B] [M]
Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979) [A]
Leicester Kyle (1937-2006) [C] [The Collected Poems of Leicester Hugo Kyle]

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

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

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

Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) [A]
Kenzaburō Ōe (1935- ) [B]
Zoé Oldenbourg (1916–2002) [B] [M]
Michael Ondaatje (1943- ) [C]
Oliver Onions (1873-1961) [B]
George Orwell (1903-1950) [A] [M]
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) [A]

Hershel Parker (1935- ) [M]
Francis Parkman (1823-1893) [A]
John Payne (1842-1916) [A]
Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) [A]
Georges Perec (1936-1982) [B] [M]
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [A] [M]
David Pinault [F]
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) [B]
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) [F] [M]
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) [A] [B]
Tim Powers (1952- ) [B] [M]
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) [B] [M]
T. F. Powys (1875-1953) [B]
Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939) [B]
John Prebble (1915-2001) [B]
William H. Prescott (1796-1859) [A]
Harry Price (1881-1948) [A]
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) [B] [M]
Manuel Puig (1932-1990) [A]

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

Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) [A]
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [A] [B] [M]
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) [B] [M]
Rosie Scott (1948-2017) [N]
W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) [A][B] [M]
Sei Shōnagon (c.966–1017) [C]
Maurice Shadbolt (1932-2004) [B]
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [A1] [A2]
Tina Shaw (1961- ) [F]
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) [M]
Shi Nai'an (c.1296-1372) [A]
Eric Shipton (1907-1977) [A]
Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [B] [M]
Iain Sinclair (1943- ) [B] [M]
Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) [B]
Frank Smythe (1900-1949) [A]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) [A] [B]
Charles Sorley (1895-1915) [A]
Stephen Spender (1909-1995) [M]
Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014) [A]
C. K. Stead (1932- ) [B] [N]
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) [B]
George Steiner (1929–2020) [B]
Stendhal (1783–1842) [B]
James Stephens (1880-1950) [A1] [A2]
John L. Stephens (1805-1852) [A] [M]
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) [A]
Mary Stewart (1916-2014) [B]
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) [B] [M]
Irving Stone (1903-1989) [B]
T. G. H. Strehlow (1908–1978) [B]
William Styron (1925-2006) [B]
Montague Summers (1880-1948) [B]

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

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

Helen Waddell (1889-1965) [B]
H. Russell Wakefield (1888-1964) [B]
Derek Walcott (1930-2017) [CNZ]
Arthur Waley (1889-1966) [B] [M]
Rex Warner (1905-1986) [M]
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) [A] [B]
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) [B]
A. P. Wavell (1883-1950) [A]
Ian Wedde (1946- ) [CNZ]
H. G. Wells (1866-1946) [B] [F] [M]
Albert Wendt (1939– ) [B] [M] [N]
Patrick White (1912-1990) [B]
T. H. White (1906-1964) [B]
Summer Wigmore (2013- ) [N]
Charles Williams (1886-1945) [A]
Tad Williams (1957- ) [A] [M]
Colin Wilson (1931-2013) [M]
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) [B]
P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) [A] [B]
Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) [B] [M]
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) [B]
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) [B] [C]
Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) [B]
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) [B]
Herman Wouk (1915-2019) [M]
Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582) [A]
John Wyndham (1903-1969) [B]

Frances A. Yates (1899-1981) [B] [M]
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) [A1] [A2] [B]
Banana Yoshimoto (1964- ) [B]

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Robert Alter: The Hebrew Bible (2019)

Series & Themes:

Alternate Histories (1953-2011) [A]
American Civil War (1861-1865) [A] [M]
Ancient Indian Epics [A]
Arabian Nights Bibliography (1704-2016) [F] [Scheherazade's Web]
Arabian Nights Chronology (800-2016) [Scheherazade's Web]
Arabian Nights Concordance (1704-1990) [Scheherazade's Web]
The Arabian Nights in Spanish (1934-2016) [A]
The Bible (c.1400-400 BC / c.50-200 AD) [A] [C]
Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (1931- ) [M]
The Bodley Head Editions (1958-1994) [A]
The Bounty (1789- ) [M]
Britannica Great Books of the Western World (1952) [M]
British Ballads (1765- ) [A]
The Brontës [B] [M1] [M2]
Children's Poetry Books (1789- ) [A]
Clarkson N. Potter Annotated Editions (1960-1986) [A]
The Classic Chinese Novel [A1] [A2] [M1] [M2] [O]
D-Day (6 June, 1944) [A]
Easter 1916 [A]
Eighteenth Century Books [A]
Faerie [A]
Fairy Tales (1697- ) [M]
The Folio Society (1947- ) [A] [M]
Greek Historians (c.100 BCE-100 CE) [A]
The Hakluyt Society (1846- ) [A]
Himalayan Exploration (1921-1953) [A]
Homer (fl. c.800 BCE) [A]
The Icelandic Sagas (1960-2002) [A1] (1997) [A2]
Kalila and Dimna (c.800 BCE) [M]
The Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- ) [A]
Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s) [A]
The Library of America (1979- ) [M]
The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860) [A]
Lives of the Novelists (2011) [A]
The Loeb Classics (1912- ) [A]
Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- ) [A]
The Muses' Library: 1st Series (26 vols - 1891-1940) / 2nd Series (16 vols - 1949-1980) [B]
Napoleon (1769-1821) [A]
New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021) [A]
NZSF Chronology (1863-2020) [N]
Noah's Ark [A]
The Nonesuch Library (1927-77) [A]
Norton Annotated Editions (2000- ) [A]
Omnibuses (1930-1985) [A]
Oxford Books of Verse (1900- ) [A]
Oxford English Texts (1912- ) [A]
Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- ) [A]
Penguin English Poets (1971-1983) [A]
Penguin Modern European Poets (1958-1984) [M]
Penguin Modern Poets (1962-1983) [M]
Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [A] [M]
Poetry New Zealand (1951-2022) [B] [M]
Psychogeography [M]
The Reynard Library (1950-71) [A]
Russian Foreign Languages Publishing House (1946-64) [M]
Scottish Poets (1425- ) [A]
Sir John Lubbock's 100 Books (1887) [M]
World War I Poets (1914-18) [A] [M]
World War I Novels (1918-38) [M]
World War II Anthologies (1939-45) [A]
World War II Novels (1948-83) [M]

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Compelling First Lines of Famous Books

Bibliographies

Sources:

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

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Shakespeare & Co. (Paris)

Books I'd Like to Own

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)