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

  21. B

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

  68. C

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

  109. D

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

  137. E

  138. Umberto Eco (1932-2016) [B]
  139. Martin Edmond (1952- ) [C]
  140. George Eliot (1819-1880) [B]
  141. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) [B]
  142. Shūsaku Endō (1923-1996) [B]
  143. Gavin Ewart (1916–1995) [A]

  144. F

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

  166. G

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

  195. H

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

  239. I

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

  244. J

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

  255. K

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

  273. L

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

  300. M

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

  336. N

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

  348. O

  349. Tim O'Brien (1946- ) [M]
  350. Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) [A]
  351. Kenzaburō Ōe (1935- ) [B]
  352. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) [A]
  353. Zoé Oldenbourg (1916–2002) [B] [M]
  354. Michael Ondaatje (1943- ) [C]
  355. Oliver Onions (1873-1961) [B]
  356. George Orwell (1903-1950) [A] [M]
  357. Harold Owen (1897-1971) [A]
  358. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) [A]

  359. P

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

  384. R

  385. Jonathan Raban (1942-2023) [A]
  386. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) [M]
  387. Herbert Read (1893-1968) [A]
  388. Peter Reading (1946-2011) [CNZ]
  389. Mary Renault (1905-1983) [B]
  390. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005) [A]
  391. Keith Roberts (1935-2000) [A]
  392. Michael Roberts (1902-1948) [M]
  393. Harold Robbins (1916-1997) [F]
  394. Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) (1860–1913) [B]
  395. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) [A]
  396. Jack Ross (1962- ) [F]
  397. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) [A]
  398. Steven Runciman (1903-2000) [M]
  399. Damon Runyon (1880-1946) [A]
  400. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) [A]

  401. S

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

  441. T

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

  471. V

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

  480. W

  481. Helen Waddell (1889-1965) [B]
  482. H. Russell Wakefield (1888-1964) [B]
  483. Derek Walcott (1930-2017) [CNZ]
  484. Arthur Waley (1889-1966) [B] [M]
  485. Rex Warner (1905-1986) [M]
  486. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) [A] [B]
  487. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) [B]
  488. A. P. Wavell (1883-1950) [A]
  489. Ian Wedde (1946- ) [CNZ]
  490. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) [B] [F] [M]
  491. Albert Wendt (1939– ) [B] [M] [N]
  492. Patrick White (1912-1990) [B]
  493. T. H. White (1906-1964) [B]
  494. Summer Wigmore (2013- ) [N]
  495. Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) [M]
  496. Charles Williams (1886-1945) [A]
  497. Tad Williams (1957- ) [A] [M]
  498. Colin Wilson (1931-2013) [M]
  499. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) [B]
  500. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) [A] [B]
  501. Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) [A] [B] [M]
  502. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) [B]
  503. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) [B] [C]
  504. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) [B]
  505. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) [B1] [B2]
  506. Herman Wouk (1915-2019) [M]
  507. Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582) [A]
  508. John Wyndham (1903-1969) [B]

  509. Y

  510. Frances A. Yates (1899-1981) [B] [M]
  511. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) [A1] [A2] [B]
  512. Banana Yoshimoto (1964- ) [B]
  513. Yuan Mei (1716–1797) [M]




Robert Alter: The Hebrew Bible (2019)

Series & Themes:

  1. Alternate Histories (1953-2011) [A]
  2. American Civil War (1861-1865) [A] [M]
  3. Ancient Indian Epics [A]
  4. Annotated Editions (1960-2025) [M]
  5. Arabian Nights Bibliography (1704-2016) [F] [Scheherazade's Web]
  6. Arabian Nights Chronology (800-2016) [Scheherazade's Web]
  7. Arabian Nights Concordance (1704-1990) [Scheherazade's Web]
  8. The Arabian Nights in Spanish (1934-2016) [A]
  9. The Bible (c.1400-400 BC / c.50-200 AD) [A] [C]
  10. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (1931- ) [M]
  11. The Bodley Head Editions (1958-1994) [A]
  12. The Bounty (1789- ) [M]
  13. Britannica Great Books of the Western World (1952) [M]
  14. British Ballads (1765- ) [A]
  15. The Brontës [B] [M1] [M2]
  16. Children's Poetry Books (1789- ) [A]
  17. Chinese Ghost Stories [M]
  18. Clarkson N. Potter Annotated Editions (1960-1986) [A]
  19. The Classic Chinese Novel [A1] [A2] [M1] [M2] [O]
  20. D-Day (6 June, 1944) [A]
  21. Easter 1916 [A]
  22. Eighteenth Century Books [A]
  23. Faerie [A]
  24. Fairy Tales (1697- ) [M]
  25. The Folio Society (1947- ) [A] [M]
  26. Greek Historians (c.100 BCE-100 CE) [A]
  27. The Hakluyt Society (1846- ) [A]
  28. Harvard UP Annotated Editions (2009-2022) [A]
  29. Himalayan Exploration (1921-1953) [A]
  30. Homer (fl. c.800 BCE) [A]
  31. The Icelandic Sagas (1960-2002) [A1] (1997) [A2]
  32. The Italian Epic (1320-1622) [A]
  33. Kalila and Dimna (c.800 BCE) [M]
  34. The Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- ) [A]
  35. Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s) [A]
  36. The Library of America (1979- ) [M]
  37. The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860) [A]
  38. Lives of the Novelists (2011) [A]
  39. The Loeb Classics (1912- ) [A]
  40. Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- ) [A]
  41. Modern British Travel Writing [A]
  42. The Muses' Library: 1st Series (26 vols - 1891-1940) / 2nd Series (16 vols - 1949-1980) [B]
  43. Napoleon (1769-1821) [A]
  44. The New York School of Poets [A]
  45. New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021) [A]
  46. NZSF Chronology (1863-2020) [N]
  47. Noah's Ark [A]
  48. The Nonesuch Library (1927-77) [A]
  49. Norton Annotated Editions (2000-2021) [A]
  50. Omnibuses (1930-1985) [A]
  51. Oxford Books of Verse (1900- ) [A]
  52. Oxford English Texts (1912- ) [A]
  53. Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- ) [A]
  54. Pastoral [A]
  55. Penguin English Poets (1971-1983) [A]
  56. Penguin Modern European Poets (1958-1984) [M]
  57. Penguin Modern Poets (1962-1983) [M]
  58. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [A] [M]
  59. Poetry First Editions (Penguin) (1999) [M]
  60. Poetry New Zealand (1951-2022) [B] [M]
  61. The Poetry Reprint Series (1975) [M]
  62. Psychogeography [M]
  63. The Reynard Library (1950-71) [A]
  64. Russian Foreign Languages Publishing House (1946-64) [M]
  65. Scottish Poets (1425- ) [A]
  66. Sir John Lubbock's 100 Books (1887) [M]
  67. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) [A]
  68. Spies [A]
  69. World War I Poets (1914-18) [A] [M]
  70. World War I Novels (1918-38) [M]
  71. World War II Anthologies (1939-45) [A]
  72. World War II Novels (1948-83) [M]



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


  1. American:

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

  2. Asian:

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

  3. Australasian:

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

  4. British:

    1. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
    2. R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900)
    3. George Borrow (1803-1881) [M]
    4. Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) [M]
    5. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
    6. Lord David Cecil (1902-1986)
    7. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)
    8. George Eliot (1819-1880)
    9. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000)
    10. Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) [M]
    11. C. S. Forester (1899-1966)
    12. John Fowles (1926-2005)
    13. Graham Greene (1904-1991) [M]
    14. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) [M]
    15. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
    16. James Joyce (1882-1941)
    17. Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982)
    18. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
    19. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
    20. John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) [M]
    21. T. F. Powys (1875-1953)
    22. Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939)
    23. John Prebble (1915-2001)
    24. Mary Renault (1905-1983)
    25. Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) (1860–1913)
    26. W. M. Thackeray (1811-1863)
    27. Henry Torrens (1806–1852) [M]
    28. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
    29. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
    30. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969)
    31. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
    32. Frances A. Yates (1899-1981) [M]

  5. European & Russian:

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

  6. Fantasy:

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

  7. Ghost Stories & Mysteries:

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

  8. Poetry:

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

  9. SF:

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

  10. Sets I'd Like to Complete:

    1. The Brontë Sisters (1816–1855; 1818–1848; 1820–1849): The Works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë (12 vols - 1893-96)
    2. Lord Byron (1788-1824): Letters and Journals (13 vols - 1973-94)
    3. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731): The Shakespeare Head Edition of the the Novels and Selected Writings (14 vols - 1927-28 / 12 vols - 1974)
    4. Charles Dickens (1812-1870): The 'Daily News' Memorial Edition (19 vols - 1900-1910)
    5. The Muses' Library: First Series (26 vols - 1891-1940) / Second Series (16 vols - 1949-1980)
    6. Poetry New Zealand: Poetry New Zealand (6 vols - 1970-84) / Poetry NZ (48 vols - 1990-2014)
    7. Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Twickenham Edition (11 vols - 1940-1969)
    8. Marcel Proust (1871-1922): Selected Letters (4 vols - 1983-2000)
    9. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): Collected Essays (6 vols - 1986-2009)
    10. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939): The Collected Works (14 vols - 1983-2015)




Su Blackwell: The Book Collector (2018)


  1. Authors:

    1. Henry Adams (1838-1918)
    2. Richard Aldington (1892-1962)
    3. Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
    4. Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002)
    5. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
    6. Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533)
    7. John Ashbery (1927-2017)
    8. Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974)
    9. Owen Barfield (1898-1997)
    10. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) [I]
    11. Antony Beevor (1946- )
    12. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
    13. Ted Berrigan (1934-1983)
    14. John Betjeman (1906-1984)
    15. Edmund Blunden (1896-1974)
    16. Matteo Maria Boiardo (1440-1494)
    17. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) [III]
    18. Joe Brainard (1942-1994)
    19. Ernest Bramah (1868-1942)
    20. Gerald Brenan (1894-1987)
    21. Katharine M. Briggs (1898-1980) [I]
    22. Katharine M. Briggs (1898–1980) [II]
    23. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
    24. Bill Bryson (1951- )
    25. John Buchan (1875-1940) [II]
    26. Fanny Burney (1752-1840)
    27. Charles Burns (1955- )
    28. William Burroughs (1914-1997)
    29. Lord Byron (1788-1824)
    30. Robert Byron (1905-1941)
    31. Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005)
    32. Julius Caesar (c.100–44 BCE)
    33. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) [II]
    34. Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
    35. Roger Casement (1864-1916)
    36. Charles Causley (1917-2003)
    37. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [III]
    38. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
    39. Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989)
    40. Winston Churchill (1874-1965) [II]
    41. John Clare (1793-1864) [I]
    42. Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674)
    43. Susanna Clark (1959- )
    44. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
    45. Susan Cooper (1935- )
    46. Julio Cortázar (1914-1984)
    47. James Cowan (1870-1943)
    48. Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
    49. John Crowley (1942- )
    50. William Dalrymple (1965- )
    51. W. H. Davies (1871-1940)
    52. Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731)
    53. Christopher de Hamel (1950- )
    54. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
    55. José Donoso (1924-1996)
    56. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
    57. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) [II]
    58. Gavin Ewart (1916–1995)
    59. A. R. D. Fairburn (1904–1957)
    60. Rowena Farre (1921-1979)
    61. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    62. Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011)
    63. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
    64. Ian Fleming (1908-1964)
    65. Peter Fleming (1907-1971)
    66. Shelby Foote (1916-2005)
    67. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
    68. Frederick Forsyth (1938- )
    69. Ronald Fraser (1930-2012)
    70. Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012)
    71. Paul Fussell (1924-2012)
    72. Neil Gaiman (1960- )
    73. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) [II]
    74. Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca (1539-1616)
    75. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
    76. Ian Gibson (1939- )
    77. W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911)
    78. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
    79. Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
    80. Harry Graham (1874-1936)
    81. Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
    82. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [II]
    83. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [III]
    84. Graham Greene (1904-1991) [II]
    85. Hugh Greene (1910-1987)
    86. Lady Gregory (1852-1932)
    87. Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
    88. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
    89. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
    90. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
    91. Max Hastings (1945- )
    92. Hergé (1907-1983)
    93. Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BCE)
    94. Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)
    95. Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913)
    96. Geoffrey Household (1900-1988)
    97. David Howarth (1912-1991)
    98. W. H. Hudson (1841-1922)
    99. T. E. Hulme (1883-1917)
    100. John Hunt (1910-1998)
    101. Washington Irving (1783-1859)
    102. Henry James (1843-1916) [III]
    103. M. R. James (1862-1936) [II]
    104. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887)
    105. David Jones (1895-1974)
    106. S. T. Joshi (1958- )
    107. John Keats (1795-1821)
    108. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
    109. Francis Kilvert (1840-1879)
    110. Ross King (1962- )
    111. Stephen King (1947- )
    112. Stephen King's Dark Tower (2007-2017)
    113. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
    114. Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)
    115. Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979)
    116. Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
    117. Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
    118. Edward Lear (1812-1888)
    119. John le Carré (1931-2020)
    120. Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917)
    121. Michele Leggott (1956- )
    122. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    123. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) [I]
    124. C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) [II]
    125. W. H. Lewis (1895-1973)
    126. Abraham Lincoln(1809-1965)
    127. Norman Lindsay (1879–1969)
    128. Deborah Lipstadt (1947- )
    129. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
    130. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937)
    131. Luo Guanzhong (c.1330–1400 or c.1280–1360)
    132. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
    133. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)
    134. George Mallory (1886-1924)
    135. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [II]
    136. Don Marquis (1878–1937)
    137. George R. R. Martin (1948- )
    138. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
    139. John Masefield (1878-1967)
    140. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [I]
    141. Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855)
    142. Alan Moore (1953- )
    143. Ward Moore (1903-1978)
    144. Jan Morris (1926- )
    145. John L. Motley (1814-1877)
    146. Murasaki Shikibu (c.973-c.1014/25)
    147. Les Murray (1938-2019)
    148. Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
    149. Peter F. Neumeyer (1929- )
    150. Eric Newby (1919-2006)
    151. Charles Nicholl (1904-1991)
    152. Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986)
    153. Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)
    154. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
    155. George Orwell (1903-1950) [II]
    156. Harold Owen (1897-1971)
    157. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
    158. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
    159. Francis Parkman (1823-1893)
    160. John Payne (1842-1916)
    161. Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)
    162. Patrick Pearse (1879-1916)
    163. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [I]
    164. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
    165. Cole Porter (1891-1964)
    166. William H. Prescott (1796-1859)
    167. Harry Price (1881-1948)
    168. Manuel Puig (1932-1990)
    169. Luigi Pulci (1432-1484)
    170. Jonathan Raban (1942-2023)
    171. Herbert Read (1893-1968)
    172. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005)
    173. Keith Roberts (1935-2000)
    174. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
    175. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986)
    176. Damon Runyon (1880-1946)
    177. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974)
    178. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)
    179. J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
    180. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [II]
    181. James Schuyler (1923-1991)
    182. Dr. Seuss (1904–1991)
    183. Tim Severin (1940- )
    184. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [I]
    185. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [II]
    186. Shi Nai'an (c.1296-1372)
    187. Eric Shipton (1907-1977)
    188. Frank Smythe (1900-1949)
    189. Charles Sorley (1895-1915)
    190. Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014)
    191. James Stephens (1880-1950) [I]
    192. James Stephens (1882-1950) [II]
    193. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
    194. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
    195. Tacitus (c.56–c.120)
    196. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
    197. Alessandro Tassoni (1565-1635)
    198. Paul Theroux (1941- )
    199. Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)
    200. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [II]
    201. Hugh Thomas (1931-2017)
    202. Flora Thompson (1876-1947)
    203. Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE)
    204. H. W. Tilman (1898-1977)
    205. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
    206. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [I]
    207. Mark Twain (1837-1910)
    208. Jack Vance (1916-2013)
    209. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- )
    210. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
    211. A. P. Wavell (1883-1950)
    212. Charles Williams (1886-1945)
    213. Tad Williams (1957- )
    214. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
    215. Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582)
    216. W. B. Yeats (1865-1938) [I]
    217. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) [II]

  2. Series & Themes:

    1. Alternate Histories (1953-2011)
    2. American Civil War (1861-1865) [II]
    3. Ancient Indian Epics
    4. The Arabian Nights in Spanish (1934-2016)
    5. The Bible [II]
    6. The Bodley Head Editions (1958-1994)
    7. British Ballads (1765- )
    8. Children's Poetry Books (1789- )
    9. Clarkson N. Potter Annotated Editions (1960-1986)
    10. The Classic Chinese Novel [III]
    11. The Classic Chinese Novel [IV]
    12. D-Day (6 June, 1944)
    13. Easter 1916
    14. Eighteenth Century Books
    15. Faerie
    16. The Folio Society (1947- ) [I]
    17. Greek Historians (c.100 BCE-100 CE)
    18. Harvard UP Annotated Editions (2009-2022)
    19. Himalayan Exploration (1921-1953)
    20. Homer (fl. c.800 BCE)
    21. The Icelandic Sagas (1960-2002) [I]
    22. The Icelandic Sagas (1997) [II]
    23. The Italian Epic (1320-1622)
    24. The Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- )
    25. Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s)
    26. The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860)
    27. The Loeb Classics (1912- )
    28. Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- )
    29. Modern British Travel Writing
    30. Napoleon (1769-1821)
    31. The New York School of Poets
    32. New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021)
    33. Noah's Ark]
    34. The Nonesuch Library (1927-77)
    35. Norton Annotated Editions (2000-2021)
    36. Omnibuses (1930-1985)
    37. Oxford Books of Verse (1900- )
    38. Oxford English Texts (1912- )
    39. Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- )
    40. Pastoral
    41. Penguin English Poets (1971-1983)
    42. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [II]
    43. The Reynard Library (1950-71)
    44. Scottish Poets (1425- )
    45. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
    46. Spies
    47. World War I Poets (1914-18) [II]
    48. 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. Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972)
    24. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
    25. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
    26. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
    27. Peter Dickinson (1927-2015)
    28. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    29. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
    30. Constance Garnett (1861-1946)
    31. David Garnett (1892-1981)
    32. Richard Garnett (1923-2013)
    33. William Golding (1911-1993)
    34. Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985)
    35. Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961)
    36. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
    37. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
    38. Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)
    39. E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
    40. Dylan Horrocks (1966- )
    41. Tony Horwitz (1958-2019)
    42. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
    43. Henry James (1843-1916) [I]
    44. Henry James (1843-1916) [II]
    45. James Joyce (1882-1941)
    46. Jan Kemp (1949- )
    47. Stephen King (1947- )
    48. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    49. T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
    50. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) [I]
    51. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) [I]
    52. Robert Lowell (1917-1977) [II]]
    53. Arthur Machen (1863-1947)
    54. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
    55. Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
    56. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [III]
    57. William Mayne (1928-2010)
    58. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [II]
    59. A. A. Milne (1882-1956)
    60. Christopher Milne (1920-1996)
    61. Alice Munro (1931–2024)
    62. E. Nesbit (1858-1924)
    63. John Julius Norwich (1929–2018)
    64. Tim O'Brien (1946- )
    65. Zoë Oldenbourg (1916–2002)
    66. George Orwell (1903-1950) [I]
    67. Hershel Parker (1935- )
    68. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [II]
    69. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
    70. Pu Songling (1640-1715)
    71. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)
    72. Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
    73. Steven Runciman (1903-2000)
    74. Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
    75. Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [II]
    76. Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
    77. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
    78. Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992)
    79. Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862)
    80. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [II]
    81. Robert van Gulik (1910-1967)
    82. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- )
    83. Jules Verne (1828-1905)
    84. Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
    85. Rex Warner (1905-1986)
    86. Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
    87. Tad Williams (1957- )
    88. Colin Wilson (1931-2013)
    89. Herman Wouk (1915-2019)
    90. 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)