Society: Favourite Books

[Comment: These are favourite books selected by a list of selected authors in Canada.]

 

Favourite Books Selected by Authors

 

 

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Favourite Books Selected by Authors

 

SUBJECTS:

1  Fiction or Non-fiction

2  Drama

3  Poetry

4  Knowledge, History

5  Practical

6  Children

9  Miscellaneous

 

1 Alexander, Christopher: The timeless way of building.

 

1 Amado, Jorge: Dona Flor and her two husbands.

 

5 American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

 

6 Andersen, Hans Christian: Fairy tales.

 

1 Aron, Raymond: The opium of the intellectuals.

 

1 Atwood, Margaret: Life before man.

 

4 Auerbach: Mimesis.

 

9 Augustine: Confessions.

 

9 Augustine: The city of God.

 

1 Austen, Jane: Emma.

 

1 Austen, Jane: Pride and prejudice.

 

1 Berger, John: G.

 

9 Bible. *

 

3 Blake, William: Collected works.

 

1 Boll, Heinrich: The clown and other stories.

 

1 Borges, Jorge Luis: A personal anthology.

 

1 Boswell, James: The life of Samuel Johnson. *

 

1 Bronowski, Jacob: William Blake and the age of revolution.

 

1 Bronte (sisters): Collected works.

 

1 Byron, Lord: Selected works.  (Letters) *

 

1 Calvino, Italo: The baron in the trees.

 

1 Cameron, Kenneth N.: Young Shelley, genius of a radical.

 

1 Carey, Joyce: The horse's mouth.

 

3 Catullus: Poems.

 

3 Causley, Charles: Collected poems.

 

1 Cervantes: Don Quixote. *

 

1 Chandler, Raymond: Farewell, my lovely.

 

4 Chapelle, Howard I.: Boatbuilding.

 

1 Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury tales.

 

1 Chaucer, Geoffrey: Troilus and Cressida.

 

1 Chekhov, Anton: Collected works. *

 

7 Chekhov, ed. Edmund Wilson: The peasants and other stories. *

 

1 Churchill, Winston: The Second World War.

 

1 Coetzee, J.M.: Waiting for the Barbarians.

 

1 Colette: The rainy moon and other stories.

 

1 Conrad, Joseph: Heart of darkness.

 

4 Creighton, Donald: The empire of the St. Lawrence.

 

1 Dante: Divine comedy.

 

1 de la Roche, Mazo: Jalna and Whiteoaks.

 

4 Deutsche, Babette: Poetry in our time.

 

1 Diamond, Harvey & Marilyn: Fit for life.

 

1 Dickens, Charles: Collected works.

 

1 Dickens, Charles: Little Dorritt.

 

4 Dickinson, Terence: Nightwatch: an Equinox guid to viewing the universe.

 

1 Dillard, Annie: Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek.

 

1 Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Brothers Karamazov. *

 

1 Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and punishment.

 

1 Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The idiot.

 

1 Eliot, George: Daniel Deronda.

 

1 Eliot, George: Middlemarch. *

 

3 Eliot, T.S.: Collected poems.

 

3 Eliot, T.S.: Samson Agonistes.

 

1 Faulkner, William: Light in August.

 

4 Fisher, M.F.K.: The art of eating.

 

1 Flaubert: Madame Bovary.

 

1 Ford, Ford Madox: Memories and impressions.

 

1 Ford, Ford Madox: Parade's end. *

 

1 Frame, Janet: To the island, angel at my table, envoy from Mirror City.

 

4 Freud, Sigmund: The interpretation of dreams.

 

1 Gallant, Mavis: From the Fifteenth District.

 

3 Gardner, Helen: New Oxford book of English verse.

 

4 Gay, Peter: Freud for the historians.

 

4 Gibbon Edward: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.

 

1 Gittings, Robert: Young Thomas Hardy.

 

1 Glassco, John: Memoirs of Montparnasse.

 

1 Gorky, Maxim: My childhood.

 

4 Grant, George: The technological society.

 

6 Grimm: Fairy tales.

 

4 Grzimek, Bernhard: Gzrimek's encyclopedia of mammals.

 

4 Guillet, Edwin C.: Early life in Upper Canada.

 

1 Gurr, David: The ring master.

 

1 Halprin, Mark: Winter's tale.

 

1 Hardy, Thomas: The woodlanders.

 

3 Heaney, Seamus: North.

 

1 Hearn, Lafcadio: Writings from Japan.

 

1 Heller, Joseph: Catch-22.

 

4 Herodotus: The histories. *

 

5 Homeopathic materia medica with repertory comprising characteristic and guiding symptoms of the remedies.

 

1 Homer: The Odyssey. *

 

1 Hood, Hugh: The new age.  (The swing in the garden)

 

9 I Ching.

 

1 Ibsen: Hedda Gabler.

 

1 James, Henry, The ambassadors.

 

1 James, Henry: A portrait of a lady.

 

4 Johnson, Samuel: Dictionary.

 

1 Joyce, James: Finnegans Wake.

 

1 Joyce, James: Ulysses. *

 

4 Jung, Carl: Collected works.

 

4 Jung, Carl: Memories, dreams, reflections.

 

3 Keats, John: Hyperion.

 

3 Keats, John: Poems.

 

1 Kierkegaard, Soren: Journal.

 

1 Kitaj, R.B.: First Diasporist Manifesto.

 

1 Lamming, George: In the castle of my skin.

 

4 Landon, H.C. Robbins: The symphonies of Joseph Haydn.

 

1 Laurence, Margaret: The stone angel.

 

1 Lawrence, D.H.: Travel pieces.

 

1 Laye, Camara: A radiance of the king.

 

3 Lear, Edward: The nonsense verse of Edward Lear.

 

1 Liebling, A.J.: Liebling at home.

 

1 Mahvamsa.

 

1 Mandelstam, Nadezhda: Hope against hope.

 

1 Mann, Thomas: The magic mountain.

 

1 Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Chronicle of a death foretold.

 

1 Mencken, H.L.: The new Mencken letters (1977).

 

6 Milne, A.A.: Winnie the Pooh. *

 

3 Milton, John: Collected works.  (Paradise Lost) *

 

1 Mizener, Arthur: The far side of paradise.

 

1 Modiano, Patrick: Vestiaire de l'enfance.

 

1 Munro, Alice: Collected short stories.

 

1 Muraska, Lady: The tale of Genji.

 

1 Murdoch, Iris: The book and the brotherhood.

 

1 Nabokov: Pale fire.

 

4 Nietzsche: On the genealogy of morals.

 

1 O'Connor, Flannery: Collected stories.

 

4 Parkman, Francis: France and England in North America.

 

4 Parry, William: Journal of the first, second and third voyages for the discovery of the Northwest Passage.

 

1 Pascal: Pensees.

 

1 Passos, John Dos: Orient express.

 

1 Pepys, Samuel: The diaries of Samuel Pepys.

 

9 Plato: Dialogues.  (Parmenides, Phaedrus, Symposium, Meno, Phaedo) *

 

3 Pope, Alexander: Collected poetry.

 

1 Powell, Anthony: Afternoon men.

 

1 Proust, Marcel: A la recherche du temps perdu. *

 

1 Proust, Marcel: Remembrance of things past. *

 

1 Proust, Marcel: Swann's way.

 

1 Pushkin: Eugene Onegin.

 

1 Rosenberg, Suzanne: A Soviet odyssey.

 

1 Roth, Philip: The ghost writer.

 

1 Sagan, Francoise: La garde du coeur.

 

1 Schopenhauer: Collected works.

 

1 Scott, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe.

 

1 Seton, Ernest Thompson: Two littel savages.

 

2 Shakespeare, William: Collected works.  (The merry wives of Windsor, Macbeth, Hamlet, The tempest) *

 

1 Singer, Isaac Bashevis: A friend of Kafka.

 

1 Smart, Elizabeth: By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept.

 

1 Smart, Elizabeth: The assumption of the rogues and rascals.

 

1 St. Teresa: Interior castle.

 

1 Stang, Ivan: High weirdness by mail.

 

4 Steer, John: A handbook of Venetian painting.

 

1 Stegner, Wallace: Angel of repose.

 

1 Stegner, Wallace: Wolf willow.

 

1 Stendahl: Le rouge et le noir.

 

1 Sterne: Tristram Shandy. *

 

1 Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure island.

 

5 Szarkowski, John: Looking at photographs.

 

9 The Anglican book of common prayer.

 

5 The Diagram Group: Man's body: an owner's manual.

 

4 The Oxford classical dictionary.

 

1 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

 

3 Thomas, Dylan: Collected poems.

 

1 Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina.

 

1 Tolstoy, Leo: War and peace. *

 

1 Toole, John Kennedy: A confederacy of dunces.

 

1 Trevor, William: The Love Department.

 

1 Tutuola, Amos: The palm wine drinkard.

 

1 Twain, Mark: Huckleberry Finn. *

 

3 Untermeyer, Louis: A concise treasury of great poems.

 

1 von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang: Italian journey 1986-1788.

 

5 Wanley, Nanthiel: Wanley's wonders.

 

1 Waugh, Evelyn: A handful of dust. *

 

1 Waugh, Evelyn: Decline and fall.

 

3 Whitman, Walt: Collected works.

 

1 Wiebe, Rudy: The temptations of Big Bear.

 

1 Wilson, Edmund: Patriotic gore.

 

1 Wodehouse, P.G.: The code of the Woosters. *

 

1 Wolfe, Thomas: Of time and the river.

 

4 Woods, Ralph L.: A treasury of the familiar.

 

3 Wordsworth, William: Collected poems.

 

3 Yeats: Poems.  (Saling to Byzantium)

 

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