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

Monday

Acquisitions


Contents:




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













Sunday

Bibliographies


Tim Bowling: The Book Collector (2008)


(Alphabetical)

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



Famous Authors

Authors:

    A

  1. Kōbō Abe (1924-1993) [B]
  2. Kathy Acker (c.1944-1997) [C] [F]
  3. Henry Adams (1838-1918) [A]
  4. Robert Aickman (1914-1981) [B]
  5. Joan Aiken (1924-2004) [M]
  6. Edward Albee (1928-2016) [A]
  7. Richard Aldington (1892-1962) [A]
  8. Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) [A]
  9. Jorge Amado (1912-2001) [B]
  10. Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) [A]
  11. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) [A] [M]
  12. Martin Amis (1949- ) [M]
  13. Hiro Arikawa (1972- ) [A]
  14. Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533) [A]
  15. Martin Armstrong (1882-1974) [C] [F]
  16. John Ashbery (1927-2017) [A]
  17. Geoffrey Ashe (1923-2022) [M]
  18. Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) [B] [M]
  19. Machado de Assis (1839-1908) [B]
  20. Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974) [A]
  21. W. H. Auden (1907-1973) [A] [B] [C] [M1] M2] [M3]

  22. B

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

  70. C

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

  112. D

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

  142. E

  143. Umberto Eco (1932-2016) [B]
  144. Martin Edmond (1952- ) [C]
  145. George Eliot (1819-1880) [B]
  146. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) [B]
  147. Shūsaku Endō (1923-1996) [B]
  148. Gavin Ewart (1916–1995) [A]

  149. F

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

  171. G

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

  200. H

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

  244. I

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

  249. J

  250. Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) [F]
  251. Henry James (1843-1916) [A] [M1] [M2]
  252. M. R. James (1862-1936) [A] [B] [F] [M]
  253. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) [A]
  254. Lynn Jenner (1955- ) [C]
  255. Mike Johnson (1947- ) [N]
  256. David Jones (1895-1974) [A]
  257. M. K. Joseph (1914-1981) [N]
  258. S. T. Joshi (1958- ) [A]
  259. James Joyce (1882-1941) [B] [M]

  260. K

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

  278. L

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

  306. M

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

  343. N

  344. Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) [A] [B] [C] [M]
  345. Ogden Nash (1902-1971) [A]
  346. Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) [A] [B]
  347. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) [B] [M]
  348. E. Nesbit (1858-1924) [B] [M]
  349. Peter F. Neumeyer (1929- ) [A]
  350. Eric Newby (1919-2006) [A]
  351. Charles Nicholl (1904-1991) [A]
  352. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) [C]
  353. Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986)[A]
  354. John Julius Norwich (1929–2018) [M]

  355. O

  356. Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000) [A]
  357. Tim O'Brien (1946- ) [M]
  358. Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) [A]
  359. Clifford Odets (1906–1963) [A]
  360. Kenzaburō Ōe (1935- ) [B]
  361. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) [A]
  362. Zoé Oldenbourg (1916–2002) [B] [M]
  363. Michael Ondaatje (1943- ) [C]
  364. Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) [A]
  365. Oliver Onions (1873-1961) [B]
  366. George Orwell (1903-1950) [A] [M]
  367. Harold Owen (1897-1971) [A]
  368. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) [A]

  369. P

  370. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) [A]
  371. Hershel Parker (1935- ) [M]
  372. Francis Parkman (1823-1893) [A]
  373. John Payne (1842-1916) [A]
  374. Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) [A]
  375. Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) [A]
  376. Georges Perec (1936-1982) [B] [M]
  377. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [A] [M]
  378. David Pinault [F]
  379. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) [A] [B]
  380. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) [F] [M]
  381. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) [A] [B]
  382. Dudley Pope (1925–1997) [A]
  383. Cole Porter (1891-1964) [A]
  384. Tim Powers (1952- ) [B] [M]
  385. John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) [B] [M]
  386. T. F. Powys (1875-1953) [B]
  387. Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939) [B]
  388. John Prebble (1915-2001) [B]
  389. William H. Prescott (1796-1859) [A]
  390. Harry Price (1881-1948) [A]
  391. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) [B] [M]
  392. Pu Songling (1640-1715) [M]
  393. Manuel Puig (1932-1990) [A]
  394. Luigi Pulci (1432-1484) [A]

  395. R

  396. Jonathan Raban (1942-2023) [A]
  397. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) [M]
  398. Herbert Read (1893-1968) [A]
  399. Peter Reading (1946-2011) [CNZ]
  400. Douglas Reeman [Alexander Kent] (1924–2017) [A]
  401. Mary Renault (1905-1983) [B]
  402. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005) [A]
  403. Keith Roberts (1935-2000) [A]
  404. Michael Roberts (1902-1948) [M]
  405. Harold Robbins (1916-1997) [F]
  406. Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) (1860–1913) [B]
  407. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) [A]
  408. Jack Ross (1962- ) [F]
  409. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) [A]
  410. Steven Runciman (1903-2000) [M]
  411. Damon Runyon (1880-1946) [A]
  412. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) [A]

  413. S

  414. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) [A]
  415. J. D. Salinger (1919-2010) [A]
  416. Frank Sargeson (1903-1982) [B]
  417. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [A] [B] [M]
  418. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) [B] [M]
  419. James Schuyler (1923-1991) [A]
  420. Rosie Scott (1948-2017) [N]
  421. W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) [A][B] [M]
  422. Sei Shōnagon (c.966–1017) [C]
  423. Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) [A]
  424. Tim Severin (1940- ) [A]
  425. Maurice Shadbolt (1932-2004) [B]
  426. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [A1] [A2]
  427. Tina Shaw (1961- ) [F]
  428. Mary Shelley (1797-1851) [M]
  429. Shi Nai'an (c.1296-1372) [A]
  430. Eric Shipton (1907-1977) [A]
  431. Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [B] [M]
  432. Iain Sinclair (1943- ) [B] [M]
  433. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) [B]
  434. Stevie Smith (1902-1971) [B]
  435. Frank Smythe (1900-1949) [A]
  436. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) [A] [B]
  437. Charles Sorley (1895-1915) [A]
  438. Stephen Spender (1909-1995) [M]
  439. Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014) [A]
  440. C. K. Stead (1932- ) [B] [N]
  441. John Steinbeck (1902-1968) [B]
  442. George Steiner (1929–2020) [B]
  443. Stendhal (1783–1842) [B]
  444. James Stephens (1880-1950) [A1] [A2]
  445. John L. Stephens (1805-1852) [A] [M]
  446. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) [A]
  447. Mary Stewart (1916-2014) [B] [M]
  448. Julian Stockwin (1944- ) [A]
  449. Bram Stoker (1847-1912) [B] [M]
  450. Irving Stone (1903-1989) [B]
  451. T. G. H. Strehlow (1908–1978) [B]
  452. Showell Styles (1908-2005) [A]
  453. William Styron (1925-2006) [B]
  454. Montague Summers (1880-1948) [B]
  455. Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) [M]

  456. T

  457. Tacitus (c.56–c.120) [A]
  458. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965) [B]
  459. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) [A]
  460. Alessandro Tassoni (1565-1635) [A]
  461. Alice Tawhai [F]
  462. Dennis Tedlock (1939-2016) [C]
  463. Philip Temple (1939- ) [N]
  464. W. M. Thackeray (1811-1863) [B]
  465. Paul Theroux (1941- ) [A]
  466. Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) [A]
  467. D. M. Thomas (1935- ) [B]
  468. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) [B] [M]
  469. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [A] [B] [M]
  470. Hugh Thomas (1931-2017) [A]
  471. Rhydian Thomas [N]
  472. R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) [B] [M]
  473. Flora Thompson (1876-1947) [A]
  474. Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) [B] [C]
  475. Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862) [M]
  476. Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE) [A]
  477. James Thurber (1894-1961) [B]
  478. H. W. Tilman (1898-1977)[A]
  479. Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017) [F]
  480. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) [A]
  481. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [A] [M]
  482. Henry Torrens (1806–1852) [B] [M]
  483. Henry Treece (1911-1966) [B]
  484. Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) [B]
  485. Mark Twain (1837-1910) [A]

  486. V

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

  495. W

  496. Helen Waddell (1889-1965) [B]
  497. H. Russell Wakefield (1888-1964) [B]
  498. Derek Walcott (1930-2017) [CNZ]
  499. Arthur Waley (1889-1966) [B] [M]
  500. Rex Warner (1905-1986) [M]
  501. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) [A] [B]
  502. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) [B]
  503. A. P. Wavell (1883-1950) [A]
  504. Ian Wedde (1946- ) [CNZ]
  505. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) [B] [F] [M]
  506. Albert Wendt (1939– ) [B] [M] [N]
  507. Patrick White (1912-1990) [B]
  508. T. H. White (1906-1964) [B]
  509. Summer Wigmore (2013- ) [N]
  510. Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) [M]
  511. Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) [A]
  512. Charles Williams (1886-1945) [A]
  513. Tad Williams (1957- ) [A] [M]
  514. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) [A]
  515. Colin Wilson (1931-2013) [M]
  516. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) [B]
  517. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) [A] [B]
  518. Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) [A] [B] [M]
  519. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) [B]
  520. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) [B] [C]
  521. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) [B]
  522. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) [B1] [B2]
  523. Herman Wouk (1915-2019) [M]
  524. Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582) [A]
  525. John Wyndham (1903-1969) [B]

  526. Y

  527. Frances A. Yates (1899-1981) [B] [M]
  528. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) [A1] [A2] [B]
  529. Banana Yoshimoto (1964- ) [B]
  530. 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. The Muses' Library: 1st Series (26 vols - 1891-1940) / 2nd Series (16 vols - 1949-1980) [B]
  45. Napoleon (1769-1821) [A]
  46. Nautical Historical Fiction (1789-1815) [A]
  47. The New York School of Poets [A]
  48. New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021) [A]
  49. NZSF Chronology (1863-2020) [N]
  50. Noah's Ark [A]
  51. The Nonesuch Library (1927-77) [A]
  52. Norton Annotated Editions (2000-2021) [A]
  53. Omnibuses (1930-1985) [A]
  54. Oxford Books of Verse (1900- ) [A]
  55. Oxford English Texts (1912- ) [A]
  56. Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- ) [A]
  57. Pastoral [A]
  58. Penguin English Poets (1971-1983) [A]
  59. Penguin Modern European Poets (1958-1984) [M]
  60. Penguin Modern Poets (1962-1983) [M]
  61. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [A] [M]
  62. Poetry First Editions (Penguin) (1999) [M]
  63. Poetry New Zealand (1951-2022) [B] [M]
  64. The Poetry Reprint Series (1975) [M]
  65. Psychogeography [M]
  66. The Reynard Library (1950-71) [A]
  67. Russian Foreign Languages Publishing House (1946-64) [M]
  68. Scottish Poets (1425- ) [A]
  69. Sir John Lubbock's 100 Books (1887) [M]
  70. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) [A]
  71. Spies [A]
  72. World War I Poets (1914-18) [A] [M]
  73. World War I Novels (1918-38) [M]
  74. World War II Anthologies (1939-45) [A]
  75. World War II Novels (1948-83) [M]



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


  1. American:

    1. Jorge Amado (1912-2001)
    2. Machado de Assis (1839-1908)
    3. Russell Banks (1940-2023)
    4. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)
    5. Truman Capote (1924-1984) [M]
    6. Michael Chabon (1963- ) [M]
    7. Lydia Davis (1947- ) [M]
    8. Don DeLillo (1936- )
    9. Joan Didion (1934-2021)
    10. John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
    11. Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
    12. Jonathan Franzen (1959- ) [M]
    13. William Gaddis (1922-1998)
    14. Wilson Harris (1921-2018)
    15. Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
    16. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
    17. Samuel Hynes (1924–2019)
    18. Jack London (1876-1916)
    19. David McCullough (1933-2022)
    20. Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
    21. Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) [M]
    22. W. H. Porter ['O. Henry'] (1862-1910)
    23. John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
    24. Irving Stone (1903-1989)
    25. William Styron (1925-2006)
    26. Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
    27. James Thurber (1894-1961)
    28. Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)
    29. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972)
    30. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
    31. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018)

  2. Asian:

    1. Abe Kōbō (1924-1993)
    2. Dazai Osamu (1909-1948)
    3. Endō Shūsaku (1923-1996)
    4. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
    5. Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972)
    6. Mishima Yukio (1925-1970)
    7. Murakami Haruki (1949- )
    8. Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916)
    9. Ōe Kenzaburō (1935-2023)
    10. Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (1886-1965)
    11. Yoshimoto Banana (1964- )

  3. Australasian:

    1. James K. Baxter (1926-1972)
    2. Maurice Duggan (1922-1974)
    3. Janet Frame (1924–2004)
    4. Maurice Gee (1931- )
    5. Russell Haley (1934-2016) [M]
    6. Craig Harrison (1942- ) [M]
    7. Jan Kemp (1949- ) [M]
    8. Frank Sargeson (1903-1982)
    9. Maurice Shadbolt (1932-2004)
    10. C. K. Stead (1932- )
    11. T. G. H. Strehlow (1908–1978)
    12. Albert Wendt (1939– ) [M]
    13. Patrick White (1912-1990)

  4. British:

    1. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
    2. R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900)
    3. George Borrow (1803-1881) [M]
    4. Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) [M]
    5. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
    6. Lord David Cecil (1902-1986)
    7. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)
    8. George Eliot (1819-1880)
    9. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000)
    10. Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) [M]
    11. C. S. Forester (1899-1966) [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)
    39. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [III]
    40. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
    41. Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989)
    42. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904)
    43. Winston Churchill (1874-1965) [II]
    44. John Clare (1793-1864) [I]
    45. Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674)
    46. Susanna Clark (1959- )
    47. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
    48. Susan Cooper (1935- )
    49. Julio Cortázar (1914-1984)
    50. James Cowan (1870-1943)
    51. Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
    52. John Crowley (1942- )
    53. William Dalrymple (1965- )
    54. W. H. Davies (1871-1940)
    55. Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731)
    56. Christopher de Hamel (1950- )
    57. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
    58. David Donachie (1944-2023)
    59. José Donoso (1924-1996)
    60. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
    61. Chris Durbin (1955- )
    62. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) [II]
    63. Gavin Ewart (1916–1995)
    64. A. R. D. Fairburn (1904–1957)
    65. Rowena Farre (1921-1979)
    66. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    67. Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011)
    68. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
    69. Ian Fleming (1908-1964)
    70. Peter Fleming (1907-1971)
    71. Shelby Foote (1916-2005)
    72. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
    73. C. S. Forester (1899-1966) [II]
    74. Frederick Forsyth (1938- )
    75. Ronald Fraser (1930-2012)
    76. Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012)
    77. Paul Fussell (1924-2012)
    78. Neil Gaiman (1960- )
    79. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) [II]
    80. Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca (1539-1616)
    81. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
    82. Ian Gibson (1939- )
    83. W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911)
    84. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
    85. Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
    86. Harry Graham (1874-1936)
    87. Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
    88. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [II]
    89. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [III]
    90. Graham Greene (1904-1991) [II]
    91. Hugh Greene (1910-1987)
    92. Lady Gregory (1852-1932)
    93. Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
    94. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
    95. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
    96. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
    97. Max Hastings (1945- )
    98. Hergé (1907-1983)
    99. Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BCE)
    100. Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)
    101. Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913)
    102. Geoffrey Household (1900-1988)
    103. David Howarth (1912-1991)
    104. W. H. Hudson (1841-1922)
    105. T. E. Hulme (1883-1917)
    106. John Hunt (1910-1998)
    107. Washington Irving (1783-1859)
    108. Henry James (1843-1916) [III]
    109. M. R. James (1862-1936) [II]
    110. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887)
    111. David Jones (1895-1974)
    112. S. T. Joshi (1958- )
    113. John Keats (1795-1821)
    114. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
    115. Francis Kilvert (1840-1879)
    116. Ross King (1962- )
    117. Stephen King (1947- )
    118. Stephen King's Dark Tower (2007-2017)
    119. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
    120. Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)
    121. Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979)
    122. Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
    123. Dewey Lambdin (1945-2021)
    124. Chris Durbin (1955- )
    125. Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
    126. Edward Lear (1812-1888)
    127. John le Carré (1931-2020)
    128. Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917)
    129. Michele Leggott (1956- )
    130. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    131. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) [I]
    132. C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) [II]
    133. W. H. Lewis (1895-1973)
    134. Abraham Lincoln(1809-1965)
    135. Norman Lindsay (1879–1969)
    136. Deborah Lipstadt (1947- )
    137. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
    138. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937)
    139. Luo Guanzhong (c.1330–1400 or c.1280–1360)
    140. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
    141. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)
    142. George Mallory (1886-1924)
    143. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [II]
    144. Don Marquis (1878–1937)
    145. George R. R. Martin (1948- )
    146. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
    147. John Masefield (1878-1967)
    148. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [I]
    149. Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
    150. Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855)
    151. Alan Moore (1953- )
    152. Ward Moore (1903-1978)
    153. Jan Morris (1926- )
    154. John L. Motley (1814-1877)
    155. Murasaki Shikibu (c.973-c.1014/25)
    156. Les Murray (1938-2019)
    157. Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
    158. Peter F. Neumeyer (1929- )
    159. Eric Newby (1919-2006)
    160. Charles Nicholl (1904-1991)
    161. Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986)
    162. Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000)
    163. Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)
    164. Clifford Odets (1906–1963)
    165. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
    166. George Orwell (1903-1950) [II]
    167. Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
    168. Harold Owen (1897-1971)
    169. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
    170. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
    171. Francis Parkman (1823-1893)
    172. John Payne (1842-1916)
    173. Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)
    174. Patrick Pearse (1879-1916)
    175. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [I]
    176. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
    177. Dudley Pope (1925–1997)
    178. Cole Porter (1891-1964)
    179. William H. Prescott (1796-1859)
    180. Harry Price (1881-1948)
    181. Manuel Puig (1932-1990)
    182. Luigi Pulci (1432-1484)
    183. Jonathan Raban (1942-2023)
    184. Herbert Read (1893-1968)
    185. Douglas Reeman [Alexander Kent] (1924–2017)
    186. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005)
    187. Keith Roberts (1935-2000)
    188. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
    189. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986)
    190. Damon Runyon (1880-1946)
    191. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974)
    192. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)
    193. J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
    194. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [II]
    195. James Schuyler (1923-1991)
    196. Dr. Seuss (1904–1991)
    197. Tim Severin (1940- )
    198. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [I]
    199. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [II]
    200. Shi Nai'an (c.1296-1372)
    201. Eric Shipton (1907-1977)
    202. Frank Smythe (1900-1949)
    203. Charles Sorley (1895-1915)
    204. Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014)
    205. James Stephens (1880-1950) [I]
    206. James Stephens (1882-1950) [II]
    207. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
    208. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
    209. Julian Stockwin (1944- )
    210. Showell Styles (1908-2005)
    211. Tacitus (c.56–c.120)
    212. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
    213. Alessandro Tassoni (1565-1635)
    214. Paul Theroux (1941- )
    215. Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)
    216. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [II]
    217. Hugh Thomas (1931-2017)
    218. Flora Thompson (1876-1947)
    219. Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE)
    220. H. W. Tilman (1898-1977)
    221. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
    222. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [I]
    223. Mark Twain (1837-1910)
    224. Jack Vance (1916-2013)
    225. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- )
    226. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
    227. A. P. Wavell (1883-1950)
    228. Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
    229. Charles Williams (1886-1945)
    230. Tad Williams (1957- )
    231. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
    232. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
    233. Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582)
    234. W. B. Yeats (1865-1938) [I]
    235. 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. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
    3. Martin Amis (1949- )
    4. Geoffrey Ashe (1923-2022)
    5. James Baldwin (1924-1987)
    6. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) [II]
    7. Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) [II]
    8. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) [II]
    9. Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
    10. Branwell Brontë (1817-1848)
    11. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
    12. Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
    13. Alan Brunton (1946-2002)
    14. Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) [I]
    15. Truman Capote (1924-1984)
    16. Orson Scott Card (1951- )
    17. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
    18. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [I]
    19. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [II]
    20. Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) [I]
    21. John Clare (1793-1864) [II]
    22. Michael Cox (1948-2009)
    23. Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
    24. Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972)
    25. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
    26. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
    27. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
    28. Peter Dickinson (1927-2015)
    29. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    30. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
    31. Constance Garnett (1861-1946)
    32. David Garnett (1892-1981)
    33. Richard Garnett (1923-2013)
    34. William Golding (1911-1993)
    35. Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985)
    36. Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961)
    37. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
    38. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
    39. Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)
    40. E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
    41. Dylan Horrocks (1966- )
    42. Tony Horwitz (1958-2019)
    43. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
    44. Henry James (1843-1916) [I]
    45. Henry James (1843-1916) [II]
    46. James Joyce (1882-1941)
    47. Jan Kemp (1949- )
    48. Stephen King (1947- )
    49. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    50. T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
    51. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) [I]
    52. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) [I]
    53. Robert Lowell (1917-1977) [II]]
    54. Arthur Machen (1863-1947)
    55. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
    56. Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
    57. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [III]
    58. William Mayne (1928-2010)
    59. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [II]
    60. A. A. Milne (1882-1956)
    61. Christopher Milne (1920-1996)
    62. Alice Munro (1931–2024)
    63. E. Nesbit (1858-1924)
    64. John Julius Norwich (1929–2018)
    65. Tim O'Brien (1946- )
    66. Zoë Oldenbourg (1916–2002)
    67. George Orwell (1903-1950) [I]
    68. Hershel Parker (1935- )
    69. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [II]
    70. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
    71. Pu Songling (1640-1715)
    72. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)
    73. Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
    74. Steven Runciman (1903-2000)
    75. Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
    76. Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [II]
    77. Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
    78. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
    79. Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992)
    80. Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862)
    81. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [II]
    82. Robert van Gulik (1910-1967)
    83. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- )
    84. Jules Verne (1828-1905)
    85. Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
    86. Rex Warner (1905-1986)
    87. Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
    88. Tad Williams (1957- )
    89. Colin Wilson (1931-2013)
    90. Herman Wouk (1915-2019)
    91. Yuan Mei (1716–1797)

  2. Series & Themes:

    1. American Civil War (1861-1865) [I]
    2. Annotated Editions (1960-2025)
    3. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (1931- )
    4. The Bounty (1789- )
    5. Britannica Great Books of the Western World (1952)
    6. The Brontës
    7. Chinese Ghost Stories
    8. The Classic Chinese Novel [I]
    9. The Classic Chinese Novel [II]
    10. Fairy Tales (1697- )
    11. The Folio Society (1947- ) [II]
    12. Kalila and Dimna (c.800 BCE)
    13. The Library of America (1979- )
    14. Penguin Modern European Poets (1958-1984)
    15. Penguin Modern Poets (1962-1983)
    16. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [I]
    17. Poetry First Editions (Penguin) (1999)
    18. Poetry New Zealand (1951-2022)
    19. The Poetry Reprint Series (1975)
    20. Psychogeography
    21. Russian Foreign Languages Publishing House (1946-64)
    22. Sir John Lubbock's 100 Books (1887)
    23. World War I Poets (1914-18) [I]
    24. World War I & II Novels (1918-83)




Geoff Murphy, dir. The Quiet Earth (1985)


  1. Authors:

    1. Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
    2. Nigel Cox (1951-2006)
    3. John Cranna (1954- )
    4. Bill Direen (1957- )
    5. Philip Gluckman (1954- )
    6. Craig Harrison (1942- ) [II]
    7. Henry Honor ('The Inhabitant')
    8. Dylan Horrocks (1966- )
    9. Mike Johnson (1947- )
    10. M. K. Joseph (1914-1981)
    11. Elizabeth Knox (1959- )
    12. Phillip Mann (1942-2022)
    13. Rosie Scott (1948-2017)
    14. C. K. Stead (1932- ) [II]
    15. Philip Temple (1939- )
    16. Rhydian Thomas
    17. Julius Vogel (1835-1899)
    18. Albert Wendt (1939- ) [II]
    19. Summer Wigmore (2013- )

  2. Series & Themes:

    1. NZSF Chronology (1863-2020)