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Books I Love

In no particular order and for no particular reason, but separated into the categories of fiction
and all the rest, these are some books that deeply influenced me and/or that I utterly adore.
 

FICTION

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 

Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion by Jane Austen 

Jane Eyre and Villette by Charlotte Bronte 

Middlemarch by George Eliot 

Aegypt by John Crowley 

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 

The Cowboy and the Cossack by Clair Huffaker 

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner 

Mother West Wind Stories by Thornton Burgess 

What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies 

War and Peace by that Tolstoy guy 

Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers 

Edgar Rice Burroughs 

Kull the Conqueror by Robert Howard 
 

ALL THE REST

William Shakespeare (too many to choose from) 

Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton 

Mircea Eliade (too many titles to list) 

The Mabinogion

"The WasteLand" by T.S. Eliot 

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 

The Morphology of the Folktale by Vladimir Propp 

The White Goddess by Robert Graves 

"Genesis B (The Fall of the Angels)" (Anglo-Saxon poem) 

The Histories by Herodotus 

The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius 

Essays by Francis Bacon 

A History of the English Church and People by the Venerable Bede 

Silences by Tillie Olsen 

Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin (especially the essay "The Fisherwoman's Daughter")

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