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Books I Love In no particular
order and for no particular reason, but separated into the categories of
fiction
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") |