My Sacred Books

A
Ackroyd, Peter. Blake: A Biography
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker “Trilogy”
Adnan, Etel. Arab Apocalypse
Aldiss, Brian. Galaxies like Grains of Sand; Man in His Time; The Long Afternoon of Earth
Alexander, Will. Asia & Haiti; The Stratospheric Canticles; Toward the Primeval Lightning Field
Allen, Donald (ed.) The New American Poetry; (with Warren Tallman, ed.) The Poetics of the New American Poetry
Apollinaire, Guillaume. Alcools and Calligrammes
Aragon, Louis. Le Paysan de Paris
Ashbery, John. The Tennis-Court Oath
Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot; The Caves of Steel
Atwood, Margaret. Collected Poems; The Handmaid’s Tale
Auden, W.H. (ed. Mendelson) The English Auden
Auster, Paul (ed.) The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

B
Banks, Iain M. Consider Phlebas; The Player of Games; Feersum Endjinn; Look to Windward
Baudelaire, Charles. Les Fleurs du Mal and Spleen de Paris
Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations; Reflections; One-Way Street; The Arcades Project
Bennett, Lerone, Jr. Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Berrigan, Ted. The Sonnets; Selected Poems (Penguin)
Bester, Alfred. The Stars My Destination
Bishop, Elizabeth. Complete Poems
Blake, William. Complete Poetry and Prose
Bloom, Harold. The Visionary Company; Blake’s Apocalypse
Bonnefoy, Yves. RimbauD
Borges, Jorge Luis. Ficciones; El Aleph
Brackett, Leigh. The Skaith Trilogy
Braverman, Harry. Labor and Monopoly Capital
Brecher, Jeremy. Strike!
Breton, André. Clair de Terre (Earthlight); Manifestoes of Surrealism; Nadja; Les Vases communicants (Communicating Vessels); Le Surréalisme et la peinture
Bronowski, Jacob. Origins of Knowledge and Imagination; A Sense of the Future
Brooks, Gwendolyn. Blacks
Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange; Enderby
Butler, Octavia. Kindred; Mind of My Mind; The Xenogenesis Trilogy
Byatt, A.S. Possession; Angels & Insects; Babel Tower

C
Campana, Dino (tr. Salomon). Orphic Songs
Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities; The Baron in the Trees; Mr. Palomar
Carrington, Leonora. Down There; The Seventh Horse; The Hearing-Trumpet
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Alice Through the Looking-Glass; The Hunting of the Snark
Carroll, Paul (ed.) The Young American Poets
Carson, Ann. Glass, Irony and God; Autobiography of Red
Carter, Angela. The Bloody Chamber; Nights at the Circus; The Sadeian Woman
Césaire, Aimé. Cahier d’un retour à mon pays natal (Notebook of a Return to My Native Land)
Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Chénieux-Gendron, Jacqueline. Le Surréalisme
Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep; The Little Sister; The High Window; Farewell My Lovely
Clark, Tom. Disordered Ideas; Sleepwalker’s Fate
Clarke, Arthur C. The City and the Stars; Childhood’s End; Expedition to Earth
Cohen, Jack, and Ian Stewart. The Collapse of Chaos and Figments of Reality
Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millennium
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia Litteraria
Conan Doyle, Arthur. The Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Collected Short Stories
Conklin, Groff (ed.) Invaders of Earth; 3 From Out There
Cortez, Jayne. Scarifications; Mouth on Paper; Firespitter
Crane, Hart. Complete Poems
Cruz, Victor Hernández. Mainland; Tropicalization

D
Darling, David. Equations of Eternity
Davies, Paul. The Mind of God; (ed., with J.R. Brown) The Ghost in the Atom
Davies, Robertson. The Deptford Trilogy
Debord, Guy. La Societé du spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle)
Delany, Samuel R. Nova; Babel-17
Desnos, Robert. Poésies completes
Deutsch, David. The Fabric of Reality
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; David Copperfield
Dickinson, Emily. Complete Poems
Donne, John. Complete Poems

E
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory; Shakespeare
Eco, Umberto. The Name of the Rose
Eiseley, Loren. The Immense Journey
Eisner, Lotte. The Haunted Screen
Elton, G.R. England Under the Tudors
Eluard, Paul. Capitale de la douleur (Capital of Pain)
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. Poems for People Who Don’t Read Poems; Mausoleum; The Sinking of the Titanic; Raids & Reconstructions; The Consciousness Industry

F
Feynman, Richard. The Character of Physical Law
Follain, Jean (tr. Merwin). Transparence of the World
Freud, Sigmund. Three Essays on Sexuality; The Psychopathology of Everyday Life; Moses and Monotheism
Frye, Northrop. Fearful Symmetry; On Shakespeare; The Anatomy of Criticism

G
Gaiman, Neil. Neverwhere; American Gods
Gardner, Helen (ed.) The Metaphysical Poets
Geidion, S. Mechanization Takes Command
Gibson, William. Neuromancer; Count Zero; Mona Lisa Overdrive
Ginsberg, Allen. Howl & Other Poems; Kaddish
Gombrich, E.H. Art & Illusion; Meditations on a Hobbyhorse; A Little History of the World
Gracq, Julien. Le Chateau d’Argol
Grahn, Judy. Edward the Dyke and Other Poems; A Woman Is Talking to Death
Greer, Germaine. Shakespeare; (ed.) Kissing the Rod
Gunn, Thom. My Sad Captains; Touch

H
Haldane, J.B.S. My Friend Mr. Leakey
Hale, John. The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance
Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon; Red Harvest
Helprin, Mark. Winter’s Tale
Hill, Christopher. The English Revolution; The World Turned Upside-Down
Hitchcock, George. The Dolphin with the Revolver in Its Teeth; One-Man Boat
Hodgson, William Hope. The Night Land; Carnacki the Ghost-Finder; The Boats of the Glen-Carrig
Holmes, Richard. Shelley: The Pursuit
Homer (tr. Fitgerald). The Iliad and The Odyssey
Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor Adorno. The Dialectic of Enlightenment
Hughes, Langston. The Weary Blues; Montage of a Dream Deferred
Hughes, Ted. Wodwo; Crow; River
Huidobro, Vicente. Poemas articos; Altazor
Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men; The Sanctified Church and Other Writings

J
James, C.L.R. Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways
James, Montague. The Five Jars; Collected Ghost Stories
Johnson, George. Fire in the Mind
Johnson, James Weldon. Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Johnson, Ronald. ARK
Joron, Andrew. Science Fiction; Fathom
Joyce, James. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses
Jung, Carl. Memories, Dreams, Reflections

K
Kaku, Michio. Parallel Worlds
Kennedy, Ellen Conroy (ed.). The Negritude Poets
Khlebnikov, Velimir (tr. Paul Schmidt) The King of Time & Other Writings
Koch, Kenneth. Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?
Kotzwinkle, William. Herr Nightingale and the Satin Woman
Knight, Damon (ed.). A Century of Science Fiction

L
Lamantia, Philip. The Touch of the Marvelous; Blood of the Air; Bed of Sphinxes
Lear, Edward. Nonsense Poems and Stories
LeGuin, Ursula. The Earthsea Trilogy; The Dispossessed
Levertov, Denise. Jacob’s Ladder
Levine, Philip. Red Dust; They Feed They Lion; The Names of the Lost
Lewis, C.S. The Voyage of the Dawn-Treader; Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra
Lorca, Federico García. Obras Completas
Lovecraft, H.P. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath; The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Lovelock, James and Lyn Margolis. Gaia
Lowell, Robert. Imitations

M
Mansour, Joyce. Cris and Rapaces
Marcuse, Herbert. The Utopian Dimension
Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus
Marvell, Andrew. Poems and Satires
Marx, Harpo. Harpo Speaks
Marx, Karl. Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts; The German Ideology; Das Kapital (Capital); Grundrisse
McDonald, Ross. The Barbarous Coast; The Instant Enemy
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; Benito Cereno
Merwin, W.S. The Moving Target; The Lice; Asian Figures
Miéville, China. The New Crobuzon Trilogy
Morris, William. News from Nowhere; Selected Writings
Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon; Sula; Jazz
Moseley, Nicholas. Hopeful Monsters
Mowry, Jess. Way Past Cool; Six Out Seven
Mullen, Harryette. Trimmings; Muse & Drudge

N
Nadeau, Maurice. Histoire du surréalisme
Neruda, Pablo. Residencias; Canto general; Odas elementales
Niedecker, Lorine. Complete Poems
Norbrook, David, and H.R. Woudhuysen. The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse
Nørretranders, Tor. The User Illusion
Notley, Alice. Homer’s Art; The Descent of Alette; Close to Me and Closer (The Language of Heaven) and Desamère

O
O’Hara, Frank. Meditations in an Emergency and Lunch Poems
Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy
Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia; 1984; Collected Essays

P
Paz, Octavio. El Arco y la lira (The Bow and the Lyre); Configuraciones
Péret, Benjamin. Oeuvres completes
Perlman, Fredy. The Reproduction of Everyday Life
Pinker, Stephen. The Language Instinct
Piercy, Marge. Hard Loving; Woman on the Edge of Time
Plath, Sylvia. Ariel
Porter, Roy. The Eighteenth Century (Penguin English Social History)
Pound, Ezra. The ABC of Reading; Personae; The Cantos
Pullman, Philip. The “His Dark Materials” Trilogy

Q
Queneau, Raymond. Exercices de style

R
Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece
Redgrove, Peter. Poems 1954-1987; The Cyclopean Mistress
Reed, Ishmael. Mumbo Jumbo
Renault, Mary. The King Must Die and The Last of the Wine
Reps, Paul (ed.) Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Reverdy, Pierre. Les Ardoises du toit (Roof Slates)
Rexroth, Kenneth. An Autobiographical Novel; Collected Shorter Poems; One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
Richards, I.A. Practical Criticism
Rimbaud, Arthur. Poésies completes; Illuminations
Rose, Stephen, and Wendy Rose. The Brain
Rosemont, Penelope (ed.) Surrealist Women
Rothenberg, Jerome (ed.). Technicians of the Sacred; Shaking the Pumpkin; (with Pierre Joris, ed.) Poems for the Millennium

S
Sagan, Carl. The Varieties of Scientific Experience
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Antony and Cleopatra; As You Like It; Henry IV Part 1; Macbeth; King Lear; The Tempest; Twelfth-Night; The Sonnets
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Prometheus Unbound and A Defence of Poetry
Snyder, Gary. Riprap & Cold Mountain Poems; Turtle Island; Mountains and Rivers Without End
Steiner, George. After Babel; On Difficulty; The Penguin Book of Modern Verse Translation (ed.)
Stevens, Wallace. Harmonium
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island; Kidnapped; The Tales of Tusitala; The Dynamiters
St. Martin, Hardie (ed.) Roots and Wings
Stoker, Bram. Dracula
Stryk, Lucien (ed. and tr.) Zen Poetry

T
Thomas, Lewis. Lives of a Cell
Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class; William Morris; The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays; Customs in Common
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Toomer, Jean. Cane
Tourneur, Cyril. The Revenger’s Tragedy
Trakl, Georg (tr. Hamburger) Selected Poems
Tranströmer, Tomas. Collected Poems (tr. Hass)
Tutuola, Amos. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Tzara, Tristan. Dada Manifestoes and Lampisteries; Poésies completes

V
Vajda, Miklos (ed.) Modern Hungarian Poetry
Valaoritis, Nanos. Hired Hieroglyphs; Flash Bloom
Vallejo, César. Poemas Humanos

Vance, Jack. The Dying Earth; The Houses of Iszm; The Dragon Masters

Vaneigem, Raoul. Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes generations (The Revolution of Everyday Life)
Van Vogt, A.E. Slan; The War Against the Rull

W
Wells, H.G. The Time Machine; The War of the Worlds; The Sleeper Awakes; The History of Mr. Polly; The Collected Short Stories
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass
Wilbur, Richard. Collected Poems
Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society1748-1950; Keywords
Williams, William Carlos. Spring & All; Pictures from Breughel
Wilson, Edward O. The Diversity of Life
Winterson, Jeanette. Art Objects
Wodehouse, P.G. The Mulliner Omnibus; The Jeeves Omnibus
Wolfe, Gene. The Book of the New Sun
Wright, James. Shall We Gather at the River
Wu Cheng-en (tr. Arthur Waley). Monkey
Wyndham, John. The Day of the Triffids; The Chrysalids

Y
Yeats, W.B. Complete Poems