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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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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