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

  19. B

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

  64. C

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

  104. D

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

  132. E

  133. Umberto Eco (1932-2016) [B]
  134. Martin Edmond (1952- ) [C]
  135. George Eliot (1819-1880) [B]
  136. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) [B]
  137. Shūsaku Endō (1923-1996) [B]

  138. F

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

  159. G

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

  186. H

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

  230. I

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

  235. J

  236. Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) [F]
  237. Henry James (1843-1916) [A] [M1] [M2]
  238. M. R. James (1862-1936) [A] [B] [F] [M]
  239. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) [A]
  240. Lynn Jenner (1955- ) [C]
  241. Mike Johnson (1947- ) [N]
  242. David Jones (1895-1974) [A]
  243. M. K. Joseph (1914-1981) [N]
  244. S. T. Joshi (1958- ) [A]
  245. James Joyce (1882-1941) [B] [M]

  246. K

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

  264. L

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

  289. M

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

  324. N

  325. Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) [A] [B] [C] [M]
  326. Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) [A] [B]
  327. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) [B] [M]
  328. E. Nesbit (1858-1924) [B] [M]
  329. Peter F. Neumeyer (1929- ) [A]
  330. Eric Newby (1919-2006) [A]
  331. Charles Nicholl (1904-1991) [A]
  332. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) [C]
  333. Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986)[A]
  334. John Julius Norwich (1929–2018) [M]

  335. O

  336. Tim O'Brien (1946- ) [M]
  337. Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) [A]
  338. Kenzaburō Ōe (1935- ) [B]
  339. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) [A]
  340. Zoé Oldenbourg (1916–2002) [B] [M]
  341. Michael Ondaatje (1943- ) [C]
  342. Oliver Onions (1873-1961) [B]
  343. George Orwell (1903-1950) [A] [M]
  344. Harold Owen (1897-1971) [A]
  345. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) [A]

  346. P

  347. Hershel Parker (1935- ) [M]
  348. Francis Parkman (1823-1893) [A]
  349. John Payne (1842-1916) [A]
  350. Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) [A]
  351. Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) [A]
  352. Georges Perec (1936-1982) [B] [M]
  353. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [A] [M]
  354. David Pinault [F]
  355. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) [A] [B]
  356. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) [F] [M]
  357. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) [A] [B]
  358. Tim Powers (1952- ) [B] [M]
  359. John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) [B] [M]
  360. T. F. Powys (1875-1953) [B]
  361. Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939) [B]
  362. John Prebble (1915-2001) [B]
  363. William H. Prescott (1796-1859) [A]
  364. Harry Price (1881-1948) [A]
  365. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) [B] [M]
  366. Pu Songling (1640-1715) [M]
  367. Manuel Puig (1932-1990) [A]

  368. R

  369. Jonathan Raban (1942-2023) [A]
  370. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) [M]
  371. Herbert Read (1893-1968) [A]
  372. Peter Reading (1946-2011) [CNZ]
  373. Mary Renault (1905-1983) [B]
  374. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005) [A]
  375. Keith Roberts (1935-2000) [A]
  376. Michael Roberts (1902-1948) [M]
  377. Harold Robbins (1916-1997) [F]
  378. Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) (1860–1913) [B]
  379. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) [A]
  380. Jack Ross (1962- ) [F]
  381. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) [A]
  382. Steven Runciman (1903-2000) [M]
  383. Damon Runyon (1880-1946) [A]
  384. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) [A]

  385. S

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

  424. T

  425. Tacitus (c.56–c.120) [A]
  426. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965) [B]
  427. Alice Tawhai [F]
  428. Dennis Tedlock (1939-2016) [C]
  429. Philip Temple (1939- ) [N]
  430. W. M. Thackeray (1811-1863) [B]
  431. Paul Theroux (1941- ) [A]
  432. Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) [A]
  433. D. M. Thomas (1935- ) [B]
  434. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) [B] [M]
  435. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [A] [B] [M]
  436. Hugh Thomas (1931-2017) [A]
  437. Rhydian Thomas [N]
  438. R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) [B] [M]
  439. Flora Thompson (1876-1947) [A]
  440. Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) [B] [C]
  441. Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE) [A]
  442. James Thurber (1894-1961) [B]
  443. H. W. Tilman (1898-1977)[A]
  444. Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017) [F]
  445. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) [A]
  446. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [A] [M]
  447. Henry Torrens (1806–1852) [B] [M]
  448. Henry Treece (1911-1966) [B]
  449. Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) [B]
  450. Mark Twain (1837-1910) [A]

  451. V

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

  460. W

  461. Helen Waddell (1889-1965) [B]
  462. H. Russell Wakefield (1888-1964) [B]
  463. Derek Walcott (1930-2017) [CNZ]
  464. Arthur Waley (1889-1966) [B] [M]
  465. Rex Warner (1905-1986) [M]
  466. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) [A] [B]
  467. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) [B]
  468. A. P. Wavell (1883-1950) [A]
  469. Ian Wedde (1946- ) [CNZ]
  470. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) [B] [F] [M]
  471. Albert Wendt (1939– ) [B] [M] [N]
  472. Patrick White (1912-1990) [B]
  473. T. H. White (1906-1964) [B]
  474. Summer Wigmore (2013- ) [N]
  475. Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) [M]
  476. Charles Williams (1886-1945) [A]
  477. Tad Williams (1957- ) [A] [M]
  478. Colin Wilson (1931-2013) [M]
  479. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) [B]
  480. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) [A] [B]
  481. Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) [A] [B] [M]
  482. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) [B]
  483. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) [B] [C]
  484. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) [B]
  485. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) [B1] [B2]
  486. Herman Wouk (1915-2019) [M]
  487. Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582) [A]
  488. John Wyndham (1903-1969) [B]

  489. Y

  490. Frances A. Yates (1899-1981) [B] [M]
  491. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) [A1] [A2] [B]
  492. Banana Yoshimoto (1964- ) [B]
  493. 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. Kalila and Dimna (c.800 BCE) [M]
  33. The Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- ) [A]
  34. Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s) [A]
  35. The Library of America (1979- ) [M]
  36. The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860) [A]
  37. Lives of the Novelists (2011) [A]
  38. The Loeb Classics (1912- ) [A]
  39. Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- ) [A]
  40. Modern British Travel Writing [A]
  41. The Muses' Library: 1st Series (26 vols - 1891-1940) / 2nd Series (16 vols - 1949-1980) [B]
  42. Napoleon (1769-1821) [A]
  43. The New York School of Poets [A]
  44. New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021) [A]
  45. NZSF Chronology (1863-2020) [N]
  46. Noah's Ark [A]
  47. The Nonesuch Library (1927-77) [A]
  48. Norton Annotated Editions (2000-2021) [A]
  49. Omnibuses (1930-1985) [A]
  50. Oxford Books of Verse (1900- ) [A]
  51. Oxford English Texts (1912- ) [A]
  52. Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- ) [A]
  53. Pastoral [A]
  54. Penguin English Poets (1971-1983) [A]
  55. Penguin Modern European Poets (1958-1984) [M]
  56. Penguin Modern Poets (1962-1983) [M]
  57. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [A] [M]
  58. Poetry First Editions (Penguin) (1999) [M]
  59. Poetry New Zealand (1951-2022) [B] [M]
  60. The Poetry Reprint Series (1975) [M]
  61. Psychogeography [M]
  62. The Reynard Library (1950-71) [A]
  63. Russian Foreign Languages Publishing House (1946-64) [M]
  64. Scottish Poets (1425- ) [A]
  65. Sir John Lubbock's 100 Books (1887) [M]
  66. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) [A]
  67. Spies [A]
  68. World War I Poets (1914-18) [A] [M]
  69. World War I Novels (1918-38) [M]
  70. World War II Anthologies (1939-45) [A]
  71. 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. Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002)
    4. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
    5. John Ashbery (1927-2017)
    6. Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974)
    7. Owen Barfield (1898-1997)
    8. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) [I]
    9. Antony Beevor (1946- )
    10. Ted Berrigan (1934-1983)
    11. John Betjeman (1906-1984)
    12. Edmund Blunden (1896-1974)
    13. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) [III]
    14. Joe Brainard (1942-1994)
    15. Ernest Bramah (1868-1942)
    16. Gerald Brenan (1894-1987)
    17. Katharine M. Briggs (1898-1980) [I]
    18. Katharine M. Briggs (1898–1980) [II]
    19. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
    20. Bill Bryson (1951- )
    21. John Buchan (1875-1940) [II]
    22. Fanny Burney (1752-1840)
    23. Charles Burns (1955- )
    24. William Burroughs (1914-1997)
    25. Lord Byron (1788-1824)
    26. Robert Byron (1905-1941)
    27. Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005)
    28. Julius Caesar (c.100–44 BCE)
    29. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) [II]
    30. Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
    31. Roger Casement (1864-1916)
    32. Paul Celan (1920-1970) [III]
    33. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
    34. Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989)
    35. Winston Churchill (1874-1965) [II]
    36. John Clare (1793-1864) [I]
    37. Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674)
    38. Susanna Clark (1959- )
    39. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
    40. Susan Cooper (1935- )
    41. Julio Cortázar (1914-1984)
    42. James Cowan (1870-1943)
    43. Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
    44. John Crowley (1942- )
    45. William Dalrymple (1965- )
    46. W. H. Davies (1871-1940)
    47. Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731)
    48. Christopher de Hamel (1950- )
    49. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
    50. José Donoso (1924-1996)
    51. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
    52. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) [II]
    53. Rowena Farre (1921-1979)
    54. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    55. Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011)
    56. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
    57. Ian Fleming (1908-1964)
    58. Peter Fleming (1907-1971)
    59. Shelby Foote (1916-2005)
    60. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
    61. Frederick Forsyth (1938- )
    62. Ronald Fraser (1930-2012)
    63. Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012)
    64. Paul Fussell (1924-2012)
    65. Neil Gaiman (1960- )
    66. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) [II]
    67. Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca (1539-1616)
    68. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
    69. Ian Gibson (1939- )
    70. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
    71. Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
    72. Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
    73. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [II]
    74. Robert Graves (1895-1985) [III]
    75. Graham Greene (1904-1991) [II]
    76. Hugh Greene (1910-1987)
    77. Lady Gregory (1852-1932)
    78. Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
    79. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
    80. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
    81. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
    82. Max Hastings (1945- )
    83. Hergé (1907-1983)
    84. Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BCE)
    85. Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)
    86. Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913)
    87. Geoffrey Household (1900-1988)
    88. David Howarth (1912-1991)
    89. W. H. Hudson (1841-1922)
    90. T. E. Hulme (1883-1917)
    91. John Hunt (1910-1998)
    92. Washington Irving (1783-1859)
    93. Henry James (1843-1916) [III]
    94. M. R. James (1862-1936) [II]
    95. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887)
    96. David Jones (1895-1974)
    97. S. T. Joshi (1958- )
    98. John Keats (1795-1821)
    99. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
    100. Francis Kilvert (1840-1879)
    101. Ross King (1962- )
    102. Stephen King (1947- )
    103. Stephen King's Dark Tower (2007-2017)
    104. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
    105. Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)
    106. Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979)
    107. Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
    108. Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
    109. John le Carré (1931-2020)
    110. Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917)
    111. Michele Leggott (1956- )
    112. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    113. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) [I]
    114. C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) [II]
    115. W. H. Lewis (1895-1973)
    116. Abraham Lincoln(1809-1965)
    117. Deborah Lipstadt (1947- )
    118. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
    119. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937)
    120. Luo Guanzhong (c.1330–1400 or c.1280–1360)
    121. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
    122. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)
    123. George Mallory (1886-1924)
    124. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [II]
    125. George R. R. Martin (1948- )
    126. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
    127. John Masefield (1878-1967)
    128. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [I]
    129. Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855)
    130. Alan Moore (1953- )
    131. Ward Moore (1903-1978)
    132. Jan Morris (1926- )
    133. John L. Motley (1814-1877)
    134. Murasaki Shikibu (c.973-c.1014/25)
    135. Les Murray (1938-2019)
    136. Peter F. Neumeyer (1929- )
    137. Eric Newby (1919-2006)
    138. Charles Nicholl (1904-1991)
    139. Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986)
    140. Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)
    141. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
    142. George Orwell (1903-1950) [II]
    143. Harold Owen (1897-1971)
    144. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
    145. Francis Parkman (1823-1893)
    146. John Payne (1842-1916)
    147. Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)
    148. Patrick Pearse (1879-1916)
    149. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [I]
    150. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
    151. William H. Prescott (1796-1859)
    152. Harry Price (1881-1948)
    153. Manuel Puig (1932-1990)
    154. Jonathan Raban (1942-2023)
    155. Herbert Read (1893-1968)
    156. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005)
    157. Keith Roberts (1935-2000)
    158. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
    159. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986)
    160. Damon Runyon (1880-1946)
    161. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974)
    162. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)
    163. J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
    164. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) [II]
    165. James Schuyler (1923-1991)
    166. Tim Severin (1940- )
    167. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [I]
    168. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [II]
    169. Shi Nai'an (c.1296-1372)
    170. Eric Shipton (1907-1977)
    171. Frank Smythe (1900-1949)
    172. Charles Sorley (1895-1915)
    173. Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014)
    174. James Stephens (1880-1950) [I]
    175. James Stephens (1882-1950) [II]
    176. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
    177. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
    178. Tacitus (c.56–c.120)
    179. Paul Theroux (1941- )
    180. Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)
    181. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) [II]
    182. Hugh Thomas (1931-2017)
    183. Flora Thompson (1876-1947)
    184. Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE)
    185. H. W. Tilman (1898-1977)
    186. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
    187. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [I]
    188. Mark Twain (1837-1910)
    189. Jack Vance (1916-2013)
    190. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- )
    191. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
    192. A. P. Wavell (1883-1950)
    193. Charles Williams (1886-1945)
    194. Tad Williams (1957- )
    195. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
    196. Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-1582)
    197. W. B. Yeats (1865-1938) [I]
    198. 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 Landmark Ancient Histories (1996- )
    24. Latin American Boom Writers (1960s & 70s)
    25. The Library Edition of the British Poets (1853-1860)
    26. The Loeb Classics (1912- )
    27. Longman Annotated English Poets (1965- )
    28. Modern British Travel Writing
    29. Napoleon (1769-1821)
    30. The New York School of Poets
    31. New Zealand Feature Films (1977-2021)
    32. Noah's Ark]
    33. The Nonesuch Library (1927-77)
    34. Norton Annotated Editions (2000-2021)
    35. Omnibuses (1930-1985)
    36. Oxford Books of Verse (1900- )
    37. Oxford English Texts (1912- )
    38. Oxford Myths and Legends (1954- )
    39. Pastoral
    40. Penguin English Poets (1971-1983)
    41. Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005) [II]
    42. The Reynard Library (1950-71)
    43. Scottish Poets (1425- )
    44. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
    45. Spies
    46. World War I Poets (1914-18) [II]
    47. 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. Stephen King (1947- )
    47. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
    48. T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
    49. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) [I]
    50. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) [I]
    51. Robert Lowell (1917-1977) [II]]
    52. Arthur Machen (1863-1947)
    53. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
    54. Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
    55. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [III]
    56. William Mayne (1928-2010)
    57. Herman Melville (1819-1891) [II]
    58. A. A. Milne (1882-1956)
    59. Christopher Milne (1920-1996)
    60. Alice Munro (1931–2024)
    61. E. Nesbit (1858-1924)
    62. John Julius Norwich (1929–2018)
    63. Tim O'Brien (1946- )
    64. Zoë Oldenbourg (1916–2002)
    65. George Orwell (1903-1950) [I]
    66. Hershel Parker (1935- )
    67. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) [II]
    68. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
    69. Pu Songling (1640-1715)
    70. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)
    71. Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
    72. Steven Runciman (1903-2000)
    73. Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
    74. Robert Silverberg (1935- ) [II]
    75. Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
    76. John L. Stephens (1805-1852)
    77. Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992)
    78. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [II]
    79. Robert van Gulik (1910-1967)
    80. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- )
    81. Jules Verne (1828-1905)
    82. Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
    83. Rex Warner (1905-1986)
    84. Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
    85. Tad Williams (1957- )
    86. Colin Wilson (1931-2013)
    87. Herman Wouk (1915-2019)
    88. 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)