It's been almost a year getting rid of most of my books.
I made a list. Not complete, but as close as I'll get. It's a long list, so I'm throwing in a "Read More..." so it doesn't fill up the blog...
Occult, Magic & Witchcraft
- Oliver Bland – The Adventures of a Modern Occultist
- Cornelius Tabori – My Occult Diary
- Sir Walter Scott – Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
- Jim Haskins – Voodoo & Hoodoo
- E.E. Evans-Pritchard – Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande
- Montague Summers – The History of Witchcraft and Demonology; Witchcraft and Black Magic; The Werewolf in Lore and Legend; The Vampire: His Kith and Kin; How to Recognize and Destroy Real Vampires
- Richard Cavendish – The Black Arts
- Charles W. Olliver – Handbook of Magic and Witchcraft
- Francesco Maria Guazzo – Compendium Maleficarum
- Adam Douglas – The Beast Within
- Aleister Crowley – The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (two editions); The Book of Thoth; The Book of Lies; Magick in Theory and Practice
- Éliphas Lévi – The Key of the Mysteries
- Manly P. Hall – The Secret Teaching of All Ages; Self-Unfoldment
- H.P. Blavatsky – The Secret Doctrine
- Carlos Castaneda – The Teachings of Don Juan; Journey to Ixtlan; Tales of Power
- A.E. Waite – The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
- Paul Foster Case – The Tarot
- Alfred Douglas – The Tarot
- The I Ching, or Book of Changes (Wilhelm/Baynes; also the Bantam edition)
- Wilhelm & Wilhelm – Understanding the I Ching
- Gustav Davidson – A Dictionary of Angels
- Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
- John Ferguson – An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mysticism and the Mystery Religions
- Cassell – Dictionary of Superstitions
- William T. Fernie – The Occult and Curious Power of Precious Stones
- Kunz – The Curious Lore of Precious Stones
- Charles Fort – The Book of the Damned
Stage Magic & Conjuring
- Houdini / Dunninger – Magic and Mystery
- Marvin Kaye – Catalog of Magic
- Goldston – Exclusive Magical Secrets
- Henry Hay – The Amateur Magician's Handbook
- Blackstone – Modern Card Tricks and Secrets of Magic
- Jean Hugard – Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
- Alexander – The Magic Show Book
- Peter Lamont – The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick
Mysticism, Religion & Spirituality
- Richard Maurice Bucke – Cosmic Consciousness
- William James – The Varieties of Religious Experience
- G.I. Gurdjieff – Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
- Ian Stevenson – Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation
- Alexandra David-Néel – My Journey to Lhasa; Magic and Mystery in Tibet; Immortality & Reincarnation
- Alexandra David-Néel & Lama Yongden – The Superhuman Life of Gesar of Ling
- T. Lobsang Rampa – Doctor from Lhasa
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz – The Tibetan Book of the Dead
- The Bhagavad Gita
- Lao-Tzu – Te-Tao Ching (trans. Robert G. Henricks)
- Lin Yutang – The Wisdom of Confucius
- Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzu (trans. Victor H. Mair)
- John Blofeld – Taoism: The Quest for Immortality
- Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai – The Teaching of Buddha
- Benjamin Hoff – The Tao of Pooh; The Te of Piglet
- Hafiz – Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved (Crowe)
- Farid ud-Din Attar – The Conference of the Birds
- Thomas à Kempis – The Imitation of Christ
- The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works
- Thomas Merton – The Seven Storey Mountain
- Thomas Aquinas – Selected Writings
- Sir Thomas Browne – Religio Medici
- Fr. Alban Butler – Lives of the Saints
- Omer Englebert – The Lives of the Saints
- John J. Delaney – Dictionary of Saints
- James Cochrane – A Book of Saints
- Alison Jones – The Wordsworth Dictionary of Saints
- The Wordsworth Dictionary of World Religions
- Richard Bach – Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Robert Pirsig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Mythology, Folklore & Fairy Tales
Myth and its study
- Mircea Eliade – Myth and Reality
- Karen Armstrong – A Short History of Myth
- J.G. Frazer – The Golden Bough
- Joseph Campbell – The Hero with a Thousand Faces; The Power of Myth; The Flight of the Wild Gander; Occidental Mythology (The Masks of God)
- Robert Graves – The Greek Myths; The White Goddess
- Edith Hamilton – Mythology
- Bulfinch – Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry
- J.A. Coleman – The Dictionary of Mythology
- Edward Tripp – The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology
- Myths from Mesopotamia (Oxford)
- Charlotte Sophia Burne – The Handbook of Folklore
- Carol Rose – Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns and Goblins
- Jan Harold Brunvand – Too Good to Be True; The Vanishing Hitchhiker
Regional folklore and legend
- Erdoes & Ortiz – American Indian Myths and Legends
- Lewis Spence – Myths and Legends of the North American Indians
- Ella Elizabeth Clark – Indian Legends of Canada
- Nana – The Land of the Raven and the Eagle
- B.A. Botkin (ed.) – A Treasury of Western Folklore; A Treasury of Southern Folklore
- Kemp P. Battle – Great American Folklore
- Curtin – Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland
- Lady Gregory – Complete Irish Mythology
- W.B. Yeats – Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland
- Lover & Croker – Myths and Legends of Ireland
- The Mabinogion
- Joseph Jacobs – Celtic Fairy Tales
- Italo Calvino – Italian Folktales
- Aleksandr Afanas'ev – Russian Fairy Tales
- E.K. Ramanujan – Folktales from India
- Tyler – Japanese Tales
- Mitford – Tales of Old Japan
- Richard Gordon Smith – Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan
- Edward T.C. Werner – Ancient Tales and Folklore of China
- Chinese Fables
Fairy tales and fables
- Hans Christian Andersen – The Complete Fairy Tales
- The Brothers Grimm – The Complete Fairy Tales (Zipes); Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales (Doubleday); Selected Tales; Household Stories (illus. Walter Crane)
- Charles Perrault – Fairy Tales
- Andrew Lang – The Brown Fairy Book; The Violet Fairy Book
- Jack Zipes (ed.) – Spells of Enchantment
- Aesop's Fables
- La Fontaine – Selected Fables
- Anouilh – Fables
- Avianus – The Fables of Avianus (Slavitt)
- Ambrose Bierce – Fantastic Fables
- Selma Lagerlöf – The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
The Ancient World
- Homer – The Odyssey (two editions, including Lattimore); The Iliad
- Virgil – The Aeneid (including a new prose translation)
- Ovid – Metamorphoses; Orpheus in the Underworld
- Apollonius of Rhodes – The Voyage of Argo
- Hesiod and Theognis
- Aeschylus – Oresteia
- Seven Famous Greek Plays (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes)
- Plato – Protagoras and Meno; The Last Days of Socrates; The Republic and Other Works
- Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics
- Herodotus – The Histories
- Xenophon – Anabasis: The March Up Country
- Plutarch – The Rise and Fall of Athens; The Age of Alexander; Greek Lives
- Lucan – The Civil War
- Lucretius – On the Nature of the Universe
- Caesar – The Conquest of Gaul
- Livy – Hannibal's Crossing of the Alps
- Tacitus – Nero and the Burning of Rome; The Agricola and The Germania; Tacitus on Imperial Rome (trans. Michael Grant)
- Suetonius – The Twelve Caesars
- Petronius – The Satyricon / Seneca – The Apocolocyntosis
- Procopius – The Secret History
- Marcus Aurelius – The Meditations
- Boethius – The Consolation of Philosophy
- Lucian – The Works (trans. Fowler & Fowler)
- William Smith – Classical Dictionary
- Horner – Classical Rhetoric
- Tzonis & Lefaivre – Classical Architecture
- Flinders Petrie – The Arts & Crafts of Ancient Egypt
- J. Gardner Wilkinson – The Ancient Egyptians
- Otto Neubert – Tutankhamun and the Valley of the Kings
Epic, Saga, Medieval & Renaissance
Epic and saga
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Beowulf
- Turoldus – The Song of Roland
- The Nibelungenlied
- Njal's Saga
- Grettir's Saga (Fox & Pálsson)
- The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason's Tale
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Arthurian and romance
- Malory – Le Morte d'Arthur
- Chrétien de Troyes – Arthurian Romances
- Geoffrey of Monmouth – The History of the Kings of Britain
- P.M. Matarasso – The Quest of the Holy Grail
- Joseph Bédier – The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
- Roger Lancelyn Green – King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
- Howard Pyle – The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Medieval and Renaissance
- Dante – The Inferno (trans. Pinsky, Ciardi and Mandelbaum); The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso
- Boccaccio – The Decameron
- Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales
- John Gower – Confessio Amantis
- The Book of John Mandeville (Higgins)
- Marco Polo – The Travels; The Adventures of Marco Polo (illus. Baldridge)
- Benvenuto Cellini – Autobiography
- Machiavelli – The Prince
- Thomas More – Utopia
- Giorgio Vasari – The Life of Michelangelo; Lives of Three Renaissance Artists
- Jacob Burckhardt – The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- Geary – Readings in Medieval History, Vol. 2
- Norman F. Cantor – The Last Knight
- Lazarillo de Tormes / El Buscón: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels
Gothic, Horror & the Supernatural
- Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto
- Ann Radcliffe – A Sicilian Romance; The Mysteries of Udolpho
- Charlotte Dacre – Zofloya
- Charles Brockden Brown – Wieland, or The Transformation
- Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
- John Polidori – The Vampire, and Ernestus Berchtold, or The Modern Oedipus
- Friedrich Schiller – The Ghost-Seer
- E.T.A. Hoffmann – Tales of Hoffmann
- Edgar Allan Poe – Complete Stories and Poems
- Sheridan Le Fanu – In a Glass Darkly; Ghost Stories and Mysteries
- M.R. James – Collected Ghost Stories; Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories
- Vernon Lee – Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales
- Arthur Machen – The White People and Other Weird Stories
- H.P. Lovecraft – The Lurking Fear and Other Stories; The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Terror
- Richard Marsh – The Beetle
- George du Maurier – Trilby
- Gaston Leroux – The Phantom of the Opera
- George Eliot – The Lifted Veil
- Ambrose Bierce – In the Midst of Life
- Barham – The Ingoldsby Legends
- Valery Bryusov – The Fiery Angel
- Shirley Jackson – We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Nick Cave – And the Ass Saw the Angel
- Collins – Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
- Richard Dalby (ed.) – The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
- The Snow Ghost: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories
- Muireann Maguire (ed.) – Red Spectres: Russian Gothic Tales from the Twentieth Century
- Judy Middleton – Ghosts of Sussex
- Smith – Ghost Stories of Alberta
Fantasy, Science Fiction & the Fantastical
- J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobbit; The Silmarillion; The Book of Lost Tales
- C.S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia; Out of the Silent Planet; Voyage to Venus; The Screwtape Letters
- Isaac Asimov – Foundation
- Philip K. Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Edgar Rice Burroughs – John Carter of Mars / The Skeletons of Jupiter; The People That Time Forgot; Pellucidar
- David Lindsay – A Voyage to Arcturus
- L. Ron Hubbard – Black Genesis
- Hugo Gernsback – Ralph 124C 41+
- L. Sprague de Camp – Lost Continents
- Edwin Abbott – Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
- Edward Bellamy – Looking Backward
- William Morris – News from Nowhere
- James De Mille – A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
- Thomas Love Peacock – Nightmare Abbey / Crotchet Castle
- Norton Juster – The Phantom Tollbooth
- Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland; A Book of Nonsense (with Edward Lear and others)
- Raspe – Baron Munchausen
- B. Stableford (ed.) – The Daedalus Book of British Fantasy
- J.K. Rowling – The Tales of Beedle the Bard
- E.B. White – Stuart Little
- A.A. Milne – Winnie-the-Pooh; When We Were Very Young
- Alberto Manguel & Gianni Guadalupi – The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
- Michael Chabon – The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Beat, Counterculture, Psychedelics & Transgressive
- Jack Kerouac – On the Road; The Dharma Bums; The Subterraneans; Satori in Paris; Dreams
- Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg – The Letters
- Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs – And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
- William S. Burroughs – The Place of Dead Roads; The Western Lands
- Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Richard Brautigan – Trout Fishing in America; In Watermelon Sugar; The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966; Willard and His Bowling Trophies; Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt
- Chuck Palahniuk – Fight Club; Choke; Rant; Stranger Than Fiction; Consider This
- Charles Bukowski – Pleasures of the Damned; Ham on Rye; The Most Beautiful Woman in Town; Run with the Hunted; What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through Fire
- Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer; Tropic of Capricorn; Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch; The Wisdom of the Heart; Under the Roofs of Paris; Henry Miller on Writing
- Anaïs Nin – Under a Glass Bell; The Four-Chambered Heart
- Jean Genet – The Thief's Journal; Funeral Rites
- Tom Robbins – Still Life with Woodpecker
- Maurice Girodias (ed.) – The New Olympia Reader
- Leonard Cohen – Stranger Music
- Aldous Huxley – The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
- Peter Stafford – Psychedelics
- Keath Fraser (ed.) – Bad Trips
- Uncle Fester – Practical LSD Manufacture
Latin American & Iberian
- Gabriel García Márquez – Collected Stories; Strange Pilgrims; Of Love and Other Demons; Chronicle of a Death Foretold; In Evil Hour; The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor; Memories of My Melancholy Whores; The General in His Labyrinth; Living to Tell the Tale
- Jorge Luis Borges – Labyrinths
- Julio Cortázar – Hopscotch
- Adolfo Bioy Casares – The Dream of Heroes
- Santiago Gamboa – Necropolis
- Tomás Eloy Martínez – Santa Evita
- Jorge Amado – The War of the Saints
- Moacyr Scliar – Max and the Cats
- Laura Esquivel – Like Water for Chocolate
- The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature
- Cervantes – Don Quixote de la Mancha; The Deceitful Marriage and Other Exemplary Tales
- José Saramago – The History of the Siege of Lisbon
- B. Traven – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Russian, Eastern & Central European
- Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master and Margarita (read twice); The Heart of a Dog; A Country Doctor's Notebook; Manuscripts Don't Burn; Black Snow; Diaboliad; The White Guard
- Vassily Aksyonov – The Burn
- Nikolai Gogol – Dead Souls; Diary of a Madman and Other Stories; The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
- Ivan Goncharov – Oblomov
- Tolstoy – Stories and Legends
- Turgenev – Three Sketches from a Hunter's Album
- Isaac Babel – The Collected Stories
- From Under the Rubble (Solzhenitsyn and others)
- Jaroslav Hašek – The Good Soldier Švejk
- Josef Škvorecký – The Republic of Whores
- Milorad Pavić – Dictionary of the Khazars; Landscape Painted with Tea
- Bruno Schulz – The Street of Crocodiles
- Franz Kafka – The Trial; The Penal Colony; The Complete Short Stories
- Isaac Bashevis Singer – Scum; The Collected Stories
- Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita (re-read); Ada; Speak, Memory; Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories; Lectures on Don Quixote
- Goethe – The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Heinrich von Kleist – The Marquise of O and Other Stories
- Arthur Schnitzler – Dream Story
- Erich Maria Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front
- Anonymous – A Woman in Berlin
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French, Italian & Other European Fiction
- Blaise Cendrars – Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies; Confessions of Dan Yack; Dan Yack; To the End of the World; The Astonished Man; Gold: The Marvelous History of General John Augustus Sutter; Moravagine
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline – Journey to the End of the Night; Death on the Installment Plan; Castle to Castle; North; Rigadoon
- Frédéric Vitoux – Céline: A Biography
- Marcel Proust – Remembrance of Things Past (vols. 1 and 2); Pleasures and Regrets
- Victor Hugo – Les Misérables; Notre-Dame of Paris
- Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary; Three Tales
- Émile Zola – The Earth; Nana
- Stendhal – Scarlet and Black; The Charterhouse of Parma
- Balzac – The Atheist's Mass; The Chouans
- Albert Camus – Summer; The Outsider
- Jean-Paul Sartre – The Age of Reason
- Jean Cocteau – Les Enfants Terribles
- Alexandre Dumas – Twenty Years After; Castle Eppstein
- Maurice Leblanc – Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
- Voltaire – Candide
- Guy de Maupassant – The Necklace and Other Short Stories
- Marcel Schwob – Imaginary Lives
- J.M.G. Le Clézio – The Prospector
- André Gide – Lafcadio's Adventures
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Wind, Sand and Stars; Southern Mail / Night Flight
- Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities; The Castle of Crossed Destinies; If on a Winter's Night a Traveller; Difficult Loves & Marcovaldo
- Umberto Eco – Six Walks in the Fictional Woods; The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana; The Island of the Day Before; The Prague Cemetery; How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
- Primo Levi – The Monkey's Wrench
- Isak Dinesen – Last Tales; Winter's Tales
Asian, Middle Eastern & African Literature
- Haruki Murakami – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (two copies); After Dark; First Person Singular
- Natsume Sōseki – I Am a Cat; Botchan
- Kenzaburō Ōe – The Silent Cry; A Quiet Life
- Shen Fu – Six Records of a Floating Life
- Sei Shōnagon – The Pillow Book (Morris)
- A Late Chrysanthemum: Twenty-One Stories from the Japanese
- Donald Keene – Modern Japanese Literature
- Gail Tsukiyama – The Samurai's Garden
- The Arabian Nights (trans. Sir Richard Burton); The Penguin Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
- R.K. Narayan – The Man-Eater of Malgudi
- Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
- Rohinton Mistry – A Fine Balance
- Alaa Al Aswany – The Yacoubian Building
- Ben Okri – The Famished Road, Dangerous Love
- J.M. Coetzee – Life & Times of Michael K.
British & Irish Fiction
- Charles Dickens – The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Great Expectations; The Hidden Charles Dickens
- Thomas Hardy – Great Short Works; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Jude the Obscure; A Laodicean; The Return of the Native; The Trumpet Major
- Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White; No Name
- Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre
- Anthony Trollope – Barchester Towers
- Oliver Goldsmith – The Vicar of Wakefield
- Daniel Defoe – Moll Flanders; A Journal of the Plague Year
- Tobias Smollett – The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
- Aphra Behn – Oroonoko
- Sir Walter Scott – Waverley; The Pirate; The Bride of Lammermoor
- R.D. Blackmore – Lorna Doone
- Thomas Hughes – Tom Brown's School Days
- Robert Louis Stevenson – Complete Works
- Oscar Wilde – The Complete Short Stories; The Poems and Fairy Tales; The Complete Works
- Saki – The Complete Stories
- George & Weedon Grossmith – The Diary of a Nobody
- Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness; Three Great Tales
- George Orwell – The Penguin Complete Novels; Coming Up for Air; A Clergyman's Daughter; Keep the Aspidistra Flying; Down and Out in Paris and London; Books v. Cigarettes
- Evelyn Waugh – Decline and Fall; A Handful of Dust; The Loved One
- Aldous Huxley – Point Counter Point
- Virginia Woolf – Orlando; To the Lighthouse
- E.M. Forster – A Passage to India
- Ford Madox Ford – The Good Soldier
- D.H. Lawrence – Sons and Lovers
- W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage; The Moon and Sixpence; The Razor's Edge; Ashenden; Catalina; The Summing Up; A Writer's Notebook
- John Buchan – Greenmantle
- Erskine Childers – The Riddle of the Sands
- Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) – Hadrian the Seventh
- Jean Plaidy – Gay Lord Robert
- A.S. Byatt – Possession
- Martin Amis – God's Dice
- Nicola Barker – Darkmans
- Lawrence Norfolk – In the Shape of a Boar
- Louis de Bernières – A Partisan's Daughter
- Peter Mayle – Anything Considered
- Ronan Bennett – The Catastrophist
- Ian Rankin – Fleshmarket Close
- Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Anthony Powell – Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
- Malcolm Lowry – Under the Volcano; Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid
- John Mortimer – Rumpole and the Younger Generation
- Spike Milligan – Gunner Milligan
- Dylan Thomas – Adventures in the Skin Trade; Miscellany One; A Child's Christmas in Wales
- James Joyce – Ulysses; The Viking Portable James Joyce
- Vivian Mercier (ed.) – Great Irish Short Stories
American Fiction
- Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter; The Wonder Book
- Herman Melville – Selected Tales & Poems
- Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sawyer; Collected Works; Letters from the Earth (two editions)
- Washington Irving – Rip Van Winkle and Other Essays
- James Fenimore Cooper – The Last of the Mohicans; The Prairie
- Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Kate Chopin – The Awakening
- Stephen Crane – The Little Regiment and Other Civil War Stories
- Henry James – The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories
- Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea; A Farewell to Arms; Across the River and Into the Trees; The Garden of Eden; Islands in the Stream; In Our Time; The Snows of Kilimanjaro; A Moveable Feast
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby; Tender Is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- William Faulkner – The Wild Palms; Soldier's Pay
- Thomas Wolfe – Look Homeward, Angel; You Can't Go Home Again; The Hills Beyond; The Web and the Rock; Of Time and the River
- Sinclair Lewis – Babbitt; Main Street; Dodsworth
- J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
- Thornton Wilder – The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Flannery O'Connor – Three By: Wise Blood; The Violent Bear It Away; Everything That Rises Must Converge
- John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces; The Neon Bible
- Joseph Heller – Catch-22
- E.L. Doctorow – City of God
- Thomas Pynchon – V.; Vineland; The Crying of Lot 49
- David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest
- Cormac McCarthy – The Road; Blood Meridian
- Patricia Highsmith – Found in the Street; Ripley's Game
- E.E. Cummings – The Enormous Room
- Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar
- Annie Dillard – For the Time Being
- Owen Wister – The Virginian
- Zane Grey – Riders of the Purple Sage
- Janet Lewis – The Wife of Martin Guerre
- Michael Cunningham – The Hours
- Alexander Theroux – Darconville's Cat
- Barry Yourgrau – A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane Wearing Dad's Head
- Nicole Krauss – The History of Love
- Gary Shteyngart – Absurdistan
- Bonnie Garmus – Lessons in Chemistry
- Dan Brown – The Da Vinci Code
Canadian & Australian Fiction
- Michael Redhill – Consolation
- Wayne Johnston – The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
- Mordecai Richler – The Incomparable Atuk
- Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Englishman's Boy
- Paul Quarrington – The Spirit Cabinet
- Will Ferguson – Happiness; Hitching Rides with Buddha
- Thomas Wharton – Salamander
- Elizabeth Smart – By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
- Peter Carey – Illywhacker; True History of the Kelly Gang; Exotic Pleasures; The Chemistry of Tears
- Xavier Herbert – Capricornia
Poetry & Drama
Poetry
- T.S. Eliot – Selected Poems (two copies); Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats; Murder in the Cathedral
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – Selected Poems
- William Wordsworth – The Poetical Works
- William Blake – The Works of William Blake
- Lord Byron – Don Juan; Poems, Prose, Letters
- Coleridge – Selected Poetry and Prose
- John Milton – Paradise Lost; The Complete Poems; Milton's Poems
- John Donne – Donne
- Tennyson – In Memoriam
- Gerard Manley Hopkins – Poems and Prose
- W.B. Yeats – A Vision
- Robert Frost – The Poetry of Robert Frost
- W.H. Auden – Auden (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
- E.E. Cummings – 95 Poems
- Pablo Neruda – Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair; 100 Love Sonnets
- Rainer Maria Rilke – Letters to a Young Poet; Sonnets to Orpheus
- Arthur Rimbaud – A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
- Charles Baudelaire – The Flowers of Evil
- Omar Khayyam – The Rubaiyat
- 300 Tang Poems
- Robert Service – Songs of a Sourdough
- Sir Walter Scott – The Lady of the Lake
- Gary Geddes (ed.) – 20th Century Poetry & Poetics
- Trilling & Bloom – Victorian Prose and Poetry (Oxford)
- Altenbernd & Lewis – Introduction to Literature: Poems
Drama
- Henrik Ibsen – Hedda Gabler and Other Plays; Peer Gynt
- Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
- Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party
- Tom Stoppard – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Edward Albee – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie
- Peter Shaffer – Equus
- George Bernard Shaw – Plays Pleasant; Pygmalion
- William Congreve – The Way of the World
- William Wycherley – The Country Wife
- Ben Jonson – The Alchemist
- Beaumarchais – The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro
- Eugène Ionesco – Rhinoceros / The Chairs / The Lesson
- Edmond Rostand – Cyrano de Bergerac
- Dylan Thomas – Under Milk Wood
Exploration, Travel & Adventure
Voyages, sea and polar
- Richard Hakluyt – Voyages and Discoveries
- James Cook – The Journals
- Samuel Bawlf – The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake
- Laurence Bergreen – Over the Edge of the World
- Captain McClintock – The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard – The Worst Journey in the World
- Sir Ernest Shackleton – South
- Sir Walter Falcon Scott – Journals
- Grenfell – Adrift on an Ice Pan
- E.F. Knight – The Cruise of the 'Alerte'
- Captain Joshua Slocum – Sailing Alone Around the World
- Richard Henry Dana Jr. – Two Years Before the Mast
- Thor Heyerdahl – The Kon-Tiki Expedition
- Owen Chase & Thomas Nickerson – The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale
- Captain Eliot Snow – Adventures at Sea in the Great Age of Sail
- Robert Cushman Murphy – Logbook for Grace
- Miles Harvey – The Island of Lost Maps
Africa, Arabia and the Middle East
- Sir Richard Burton – Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah (Vols. I & II)
- J.H. Speke – Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
- Stanley – Out of Darkest Africa
- Mary Kingsley – Travels in West Africa
- Laurens van der Post – The Lost World of the Kalahari
- Wilfred Thesiger – Arabian Sands; The Marsh Arabs
- T.E. Lawrence – Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- David Garnett (ed.) – The Essential T.E. Lawrence
- Lowell Thomas – With Lawrence in Arabia
- Isabella Bird – Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
- Chardin – Travels in Persia, 1673–1677
- Robert Byron – The Road to Oxiana
- Nicolas Bouvier – The Way of the World
- William Dalrymple – The Age of Kali
Asia and the Himalaya
- Robert Byron – First Russia, Then Tibet
- Heinrich Harrer – Seven Years in Tibet; The White Spider
- André Migot – Tibetan Marches
- Eric Newby – A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush; A Book of Travellers' Tales
- Jon Krakauer – Into Thin Air
- John Hunt – The Ascent of Everest
- Crabb – The Challenge of the Summit
- Richard Bernstein – Ultimate Journey
- Travelers' Tales Tibet
The Americas
- Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca – Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
- Bernal Díaz – The Conquest of New Spain
- William H. Prescott – The Conquest of Peru
- John Hemming – The Conquest of the Incas
- Garcilaso de la Vega – The Incas
- Bartolomé de las Casas – A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- John L. Stephens – Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (Vols. 1 & 2)
- Colonel P.H. Fawcett – Exploration Fawcett
- David Grann – The Lost City of Z
- Peter Fleming – Brazilian Adventure
- Wade Davis – One River
- Tim Cahill – Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
- Ernesto "Che" Guevara – The Motorcycle Diaries
- Simpson – Attending Marvels
- Francis Parkman – The Oregon Trail
- The Expedition of Lewis and Clark
- Clark & Edmonds – Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Voyages and Travels as an Indian Interpreter and Trader
- David Thompson – Narrative of His Explorations in Western America (Parts 1 & 2)
Wanderers and general
- Bruce Chatwin – What Am I Doing Here; The Songlines; Utz
- Jonathan Raban – Hunting Mr. Heartbreak
- Gina & Scott Gaille – Strange Tales of World Travel
- James Little (ed.) – Way Out There: The Best of Explore
- Tim Ward – The Great Dragon's Fleas
- Grey Owl – Pilgrims of the Wild
- Ernest Thompson Seton – Two Little Savages
- Angier – How to Stay Alive in the Woods
- Lucy Jago – The Northern Lights
Klondike, Gold Rush, BC & Western Canada
Klondike and Yukon
- Frances Backhouse – Women of the Klondike
- James & Susan Preyde – Yukon Gold: High Hopes and Dashed Dreams
- Tappan Adney – The Klondike Stampede
- Pierre Berton – Trails of '98
- A.C. Harris – Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields
- Zach Worton – The Klondike (Drawn & Quarterly)
- The Death of Albert Johnson: Mad Trapper of Rat River (Frontier Series #16)
- Rhymes of a Northern Rambler, Book II – Ron E. Frederickson
Cariboo, Kootenay and British Columbia
- Bruce Ramsey – Ghost Towns of British Columbia
- Kenneth A. Morrow – A Boyhood in Nelson: Growing Up During the Depression
- Garnet Basque – West Kootenay: The Pioneer Years; Lost Bonanzas of Western Canada (multiple copies); Gold Panner's Manual
- Cariboo Gold Rush (Heritage House)
- Agnes C. Laut – The Cariboo Trail
- J.W. Lindsay – Cariboo Yarns
- Colin Campbell – Trails of the Southern Cariboo
- Bill Barlee – Similkameen: The Pictograph Country; Gold Creeks and Ghost Towns; The Guide to Gold Panning in British Columbia
- John Pearson – Fur & Gold: Stories, Tales and Legends of British Columbia
- Matthew Macfie – Vancouver Island and British Columbia: Their History, Resources and Prospects
- Emily Carr – Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
- Chilco Choate – Born for the Wild Country
- McGregor – The Land of Twelve Foot Davis
Alberta and the Rockies
- Riley, Primrose & Dempsey – The Lost Lemon Mine; Frontier Book No. 4: The Lost Lemon Mine
- Patton – Tales from the Canadian Rockies
- Sid Marty – Switchbacks
- R.G. Evans – Murder on the Plains
- Wormington & Forbis – An Introduction to the Archaeology of Alberta, Canada
- Jon Rollins – Caves of the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Mountains
- Mussieux & Nelson – A Travellers Guide to Geological Wonders in Alberta
- Kershaw – Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rockies
Gold panning and prospecting
- Lagal – Gold Panning Is Easy
- Jim & Sue Lewis – Gold Panning Fraser, Thompson and Columbia River Systems
- Jim Lewis & Charles Hart – Gold Panning in the Cariboo; Goldpanning Southwestern Vancouver Island
- John F. Walker – Elementary Geology Applied to Prospecting (multiple copies)
Science, Mathematics & Natural History
- Isaac Newton – The Principia (Hawking edition; Cohen & Whitman translation)
- Richard P. Feynman – "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
- W.W.R. Ball – A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
- Timothy Ferris (ed.) – The World History of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics
- Reichenbach – From Copernicus to Einstein
- Martin Gardner – Mathematical Carnival
- Lewis Carroll – Pillow Problems and A Tangled Tale
- Michael S. Schneider – A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe
- Huntley – The Divine Proportion
- Cook – The Curves of Life
- Gary Zukav – The Dancing Wu Li Masters
- Michael Talbot – The Holographic Universe
- Itzhak Bentov – Stalking the Wild Pendulum
- Guy Murchie – Song of the Sky; Music of the Spheres
- Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise
- Konrad Lorenz – King Solomon's Ring
- Homer W. Smith – Kamongo; or, The Lungfish and the Padre
- Thurston – Dawning of the Dinosaurs
- Gray's Pocket Anatomy
- Alt & Hyndman – Roadside Geology of Washington; Roadside Geology of Idaho
- Matthews & Monger – Roadside Geology of Southern British Columbia
- The Identification of Common Rocks; Dictionary of Geological Terms
- Simon and Schuster's Guide to Rocks & Minerals
- Schumann – Gemstones of the World
- Beckwith – Gem Minerals of Idaho
- Cobb – A Field Guide to Ferns
- Peterson & McKenny – A Field Guide to Wildflowers
- Petrides – A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs
- Grieve – A Modern Herbal (Vol. II; Dover edition)
- Albertus Sebus – Shells & Corals
Philosophy & Ideas
- Arthur Schopenhauer – Essays and Aphorisms
- G.W.F. Hegel – The Philosophy of History
- John Stuart Mill – On Liberty
- Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Søren Kierkegaard – The Journals of Kierkegaard
- Marx & Engels – The Communist Manifesto
- Ortega y Gasset – The Revolt of the Masses
- Francis Bacon – The Essays
- Robert Burton – Anatomy of Melancholy
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Reveries of a Solitary Walker
- C.E.M. Joad – Guide to Philosophy
- Harry G. Frankfurt – On Truth
- Douglas Hofstadter – Gödel, Escher, Bach; I Am a Strange Loop
- Yuval Noah Harari – 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- Jane Jacobs – The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Arthur Koestler – The Act of Creation
- Henry David Thoreau – Walden and Civil Disobedience; Walden and Other Writings
- Ik Marvel – Reveries of a Bachelor
- J.W. Dunne – An Experiment with Time
- C. Northcote Parkinson – Parkinson's Law
- Mensa – The Mind Obstacle Course
- Neith Arrow – An Inklings Weave: A Way to Understanding
Psychology, Dreams, Symbols & Mind
Depth psychology
- Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams; A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
- C.G. Jung – Memories, Dreams, Reflections; Dreams
- Edward C. Whitmont – The Symbolic Quest
Dreams and symbols
- Gustavus Hindman Miller – 10,000 Dreams Interpreted (two editions)
- Tom Chetwynd – How to Interpret Your Own Dreams
- B. Mitchell – The Dreamer's Dictionary
- Hope – The Secret Language of the Soul
- Chevalier & Gheerbrant – The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols
- J.E. Cirlot – A Dictionary of Symbols
Hypnosis, NLP and mind power
- Bernard C. Gindes – New Concepts of Hypnosis
- Bandler & Grinder – The Structure of Magic I and II; Frogs into Princes
- The Sylva Mind Control Method of Mental Dynamics
- Saralden – The Key to the Art of Concentration and Memorizing
- Vernon Howard – Psycho-Pictography
- Maxwell Maltz – Psycho-Cybernetics
- U.S. Andersen – Three Magic Words
- Claude Bristol & Harold Sherman – TNT: The Power Within You
Behaviour, luck and creativity
- Richard Wiseman – Quirkology; Paranormality; The Luck Factor (Change Your Luck); 59 Seconds
- Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers; Blink
- Charles Duhigg – The Power of Habit
- Michels & Stutz – The Tools
- David Allen – The Art of Getting Things Done
- Julia Cameron – The Artist's Way
- Fink, Ward & Smith – Creative Cognition
- Brewster Ghiselin (ed.) – The Creative Process
Memoir, Biography & Letters
- Nikola Tesla – My Inventions; The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla
- James Boswell – London Journal, 1762–1763; On the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764; The Life of Samuel Johnson
- Benjamin Franklin – Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
- The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
- Letters of Queen Victoria, 1837–1861
- Lord Chesterfield – Letters to His Son (several editions)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau – The Confessions
- Lillian Ross – Portrait of Hemingway
- Karl Ove Knausgaard – A Man in Love
- Sir Alfred Munnings – An Artist's Life
- Elbert Hubbard – The Book of Elbert Hubbard
- Norman & Betty Donaldson – How Did They Die?
- Walter Gerrold – A Book of Famous Wits
- Myrick Land – The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem
Art, Music & Writing
Art and design
- Cassell – Chinese Painting
- Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs
- Ralph Mayer – The Artist's Handbook
- John Murray – Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art
- Blake – The Way to Sketch
- The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms
- Michael Levey – A Concise History of Painting
- Richardson & Corfiato – Art and Architecture
- Alberto Manguel – Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate
- Le Surréalisme (1973)
- E. Mitchell – The Illustrated Guide to Glass
- Betty Edwards – Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Music
- David Tame – The Secret Power of Music
- Berry – Structural Functions in Music
- Eric Blom – Dictionary of Music
Writing and language
- Strunk & White – The Elements of Style
- Brohaugh – Professional Etiquette for Writers
- Gabriele Rico – Writing the Natural Way
- The Writer's Home Companion
- Quinn – A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms
- A Dictionary of Literary Terms
- Whitfield's University Rhyming Dictionary
Libertines & Erotica
- Marquis de Sade – The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Tales (two editions); Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings; 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
- Bloch – Marquis de Sade: His Life and Works
- Giacomo Casanova – History of My Life (12 volumes); The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova (edited/censored and unedited editions)
- John Masters – Casanova
- Peter Quennell – Casanova in London and Other Essays
- Restif de la Bretonne – Monsieur Nicolas; or, The Human Heart Laid Bare
- Choderlos de Laclos – Les Liaisons dangereuses
- Eliza Haywood – Love in Excess
- Marguerite de Navarre – The Heptameron
- John Cleland – Fanny Hill
- A Man with a Maid
- Anonymous – My Secret Life
- The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (two copies)
- Ovid – The Art of Love
- Anaïs Nin – Delta of Venus
- Stark – The Book of Aphrodisiacs
- Sylvanus Stall – What a Young Husband Ought to Know
History
- J.M. Roberts – The Penguin History of the World
- Bernard Pares – A History of Russia
- Richard Shenkman – Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History
- John Hersey – Hiroshima
- Simon Winchester – The Professor and the Madman
- George Dennis – Cities & Cemeteries of Etruria, Vol. 1
- John George Bartholomew – A Literary & Historical Atlas of Europe
- British Battles: Land & Sea
- Bryant Lillywhite – London Coffee Houses
Reference, Anthologies & Miscellany
- Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (two copies)
- Official Slang Teasers Dictionary
- H.E. Weddeck – Dictionary of Gypsy Life and Lore
- Bombaugh – Oddities and Curiosities
- Xavier Driffield – Driff's Guide II: How to Find a Book
- The Little Black Book Guide to London
- A Guide to the Museum of London
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
- Roger Roumagnac & Pierre Andrieu – Paris, la France et les provinces
- Fine Old Dixie Recipes (antique wood-bound book)
- The Norton Anthology of English Literature (3rd ed.)
- The Norton Introduction to Literature (3rd ed.)
- Milton Crane (ed.) – 50 Great Short Stories
- Burrell & Cerf – The Bedside Book of Famous American Stories
- John Green – The Best of Sasquatch and Bigfoot
Childhood Reading
- Franklin W. Dixon – The Hardy Boys (all); Nancy Drew (some)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (all)
- Mark Twain – Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and more
- Arthur C. Clarke (all)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – the complete Sherlock Holmes and more
- Isaac Asimov (a few)
- Ray Bradbury (all)
- H.G. Wells – The Invisible Man and more
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Jean Craighead George – My Side of the Mountain
- Star Trek graphic novels (many)
- Lynn Schroeder & Sheila Ostrander – Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain
- Everything on sea monsters, Bigfoot, Loch Ness, the Bermuda Triangle and Mysteries of the Unexplained
- Strange Stories, Amazing Facts; Reader's Digest Condensed Books