I have many favorite books by all kinds of people--here is a small sampling:
Marriage Syndrome (Lytton Kavez)
Ambassadors (Henry James)
American (Henry James)
Ambiguous Adventure (Cheikh Hamidou Kane)
Answered Prayers (Truman Capote)
Art and Death, The Theater and Its Double (Antonin Artaud)
Art of Fiction (Henry James)
Artist as Critic, The Critic as Artist (Oscar Wilde)
Aspern Papers (Henry James)
Awkward Age (Henry James)
Ballad of the Goodly Fere (Ezra Pound)
Biographical Essays (Lytton Strachey)
Biography of Djuna Barnes (Phillip Herring)
Biography of Henry James (Leon Edel—both the five-volume set and the single-volume versions)
Biography of Lytton Strachey (Michael Holroyd—both 1968 and 1994 versions)
Biography of Oscar Wilde (Richard Ellmann)
Biography of Truman Capote (Gerald Clarke)
Biography of T.S. Eliot (Peter Ackroyd)
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bostonians (Henry James)
Boxed In: the Culture of TV (Mark Crispin Miller)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Truman Capote)
Bright Lights Big City (Jay McInerney)
Brightness Falls (Jay McInerney)
Camp Concentration (Thomas Disch)
Candide & Zadig (Francois Marie-Arouet de Voltaire)
Castle (Franz Kafka)
Catastrophe of Success (Tennessee Williams)
Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
Charterhouse of Parma (Marie-Henri Bayle: "Stendhal")
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Civil Tongue (Edwin Newman)
Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade)
Colomba (Merimee Prosper)
Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
Confidence (Henry James)
Conquest of Gaul (Julius Ceaser)
Cowboy Feng’s Space Bar and Grille (Steven Brust)
Cross Creek (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
Daisy Miller (Henry James)
Daisy Miller: a Study (Henry James)
Dead, The [in Dubliners] (James Joyce)
Dean's December (Saul Bellow)
Devil's Advocates: Decadence in Modern Literature (Thomas Reed Whissen)
Dogs Bark (Truman Capote)
Dorothy Parker Poems and Play Reviews
Edgar Allen Poe Complete Works
Elizabeth and Essex (Lytton Strachey)
Eminent Victorians (Lytton Strachey)
Essay on Hawthorne (Henry James)
Essay on Man (Alexander Pope)
Eugenie Brandet (Honoré de Balzac)
Europeans (Henry James)
Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allen Poe)
Figure in the Carpet (Henry James)
First Circle (Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn)
Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot)
Gather Together in My Name (Maya Angelou)
German Wars 1914–1945 (Goodspeed)
Goblin Market (Christina Rossetti)
Golden Bowl (Henry James)
Grandissimes (George Washington Cable)
Grass Harp (Truman Capote)
Grief Observed (C. S. Lewis)
Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Haunted Pool (George Sand)
Hawkline Monster (Richard Brautigan)
Henderson the Rain King (Saul Bellow)
Henry James Among the Aesthetes (Richard Ellmann)
History of the Kings of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth)
Human Condition (Andre Malraux)
Humphrey Clinker (Tobias Smollett)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
I Tituba: Black Witch of Salem (Conde Maryse)
Impressions of Africa (Raymond Roussell)
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
In Country (Bobbie Ann Mason)
In the Cage (Henry James)
International Episode (Henry James)
Italian Hours (Henry James)
James Family (F.O. Matthiessen)
L'Assommoir (Emile Zola)
Lazarillo de Termes (Diego Mendoza)
Les Miserable (Victor Hugo)
Let Me Alone (Anna Kavan)
Life in Letters of Henry James (ed. Philip Horne)
Literary Essays (Lytton Strachey)
Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England (John Sitter)
Magister Ludi [or the Glass Bead Game] (Hermann Hesse)
Marius the Epicurean (Walter Pater)
Masterpiece (Emile Zola)
Mayor of New Orleans (Fatima Shaik)
Meditation in Green (Stephen Wright)
Member of the Wedding (Carson McCullers)
Merry Month of May (James Jones)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moon and Sixpence (Somerset Maugham)
Mosquitoes (William Faulkner)
Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemmingway)
Moviegoer (Walker Percy)
Music for Chameleons (Truman Capote)
Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus)
New York Trilogy (Paul Auster)
Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
Ninety-Two in the Shade (Thomas McGuane)
No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (T. S. Eliot)
Open Boat, The Blue Hotel (Stephen Crane)
Ordeal of Richard Feverel (George Meredith)
Origins of the Second World War (A. J. P. Taylor)
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Truman Capote)
Parisian Sketches (Henry James)
Père Goriot (Honoré de Balzac)
Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Poems and Translations (Christopher Marlow)
Poems Essays Political Writings Letters (Matthew Arnold)
Poetry and Prose (Sir P. Sydney)
Poetry and Prose (John Donne)
Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (Dylan Thomas)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austin)
Prince (Nicco Machiavelli)
Princess Casamassimma (Henry James)
Problem of Pain (C. S. Lewis)
Prufrock, J. Alfred [Love Song of] (T. S. Eliot)
Pylon (William Faulkner)
Queen Victoria (Lytton Strachey)
Quite Early One Morning (Dylan Thomas)
Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow)
Red and Black (Marie-Henri Bayle--"Stendhal")
Renaissance (Walter Pater)
Requiem for a Nun (William Faulkner)
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samual Taylor Coleridge)
Sacred Fount (Henry James)
Sanctuary (William Faulkner)
Sartoris (William Faulkner)
Saving the Queen (William F. Buckley Jr.)
Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austin)
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Sherlock Holmes Complete (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Songs of Experience (William Blake)
Songs of Innocence (William Blake)
Sophie’s Choice (William Styron)
Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
Strictly Speaking (Edwin Newman)
Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemmingway)
Swindler (Quevedo Gomez)
Templars in America (Wallace-Murphy)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
Tragic Muse (Henry James)
Travels with Charlie (John Steinbeck)
Trilby (George DuMaurier)
Troubled Sleep (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Two Years Before the Mast (Richard Henry Dana, jr.)
Undaunted Courage (Stephen Ambrose)
Walden (Henry D. Thoreau)
Wasteland (T.S. Eliot)
We Who Cannot Die (Pierre Furlan)
When Things of the Spirit Come First (Simone de Beauvoir)
Who’s on First (William F. Buckley Jr.)
Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)
Winter of Our Discontent (John Steinbeck)
Woman's Life (Guy de Maupassant)
World According to Garp (John Irving)
Writer’s Art (James J. Kilpatrick)
X in Paris (Michael Brodsky)
Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
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