In this post, we share the private book collections of four famous writers.
Emily Dickinson
- The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
- The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Poetical Works of George Herbert
- Confessions of an English opium-eater : and, Suspiria de profundis by Thomas De Quincey
- The poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
- The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- The princess; a medley by Baron Alfred Tennyson
- The Poetical Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Poems of William Shakespeare
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Life of George Washington by Washington Irving
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- The frugal housewife : dedicated to those who are not ashamed of economy by Mrs. Child
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Wuthering Heights by Ellis Bell (Emily Brontë)
- Prometheus Bound, and Other Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
David Foster Wallace
- Safety of Objects by A.M. Homes
- Darconville’s Cat by Alexander Theroux
- The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity by Amir D. Aczel
- Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting by J. Hoberman And Jeffrey Shandler
- The Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell
- The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- Writing Past Dark : Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life by Bonnie Friedman
- Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell ; Foreword By Johnson E. Fairchild
- Desperate Characters: A Novel by Paula Fox ; With An Afterword By Irving Howe
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
- Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
- The Puttermesser Papers: A Novel by Cynthia Ozick
- Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
- The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
- The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra
- Metalogic: An Introduction to the Metatheory of Standard First Order Logic by Geoffrey Hunter
- Insect Biology: A Textbook of Entomology by Howard E. Evans
- The Ultimate Rip-Off : A Taxing Tale by Iris Weil Collett
- Play It As It Lays: A Novel by Joan Didion
- Uses of Infinity by Leo Zippin
- Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form by Matthea Harvey
- Compassion and Self Hate: An Alternative to Despair by Theodore I. Rubin
- Change Your Mind: A practical guide to Buddhist meditation by Paramananda
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Translated, and with an introduction, by Burton Raffel ; afterword by Neil D. Isaacs
- Pretty much all of Don DeLillo
Mark Twain
- Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses by Rudyard Kipling
- Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
- The Club of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesterson
- Memoirs of Hans Hendrik by the Arctic Traveller
- Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen
- The Cats’ Convention by Eunice Gibbs Allyn
- Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of my Sea Life by F.T Bullen
- Oriental Rambles by George W., Dr Caldwell
- Bird Homes. The Nests Eggs and Breeding Habits of the land Birds by Arthur R. Dugmore
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- A Boy I Knew, Four Dogs and Some More Dogs by Laurence Hutton
- The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Charles Kinglsey
- Letters of Edward Lear Author of “The Book of Nonsense, to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford and Frances, Countess Waldegrave. Edited by Constance, Lady Strachey, Edward Lear
Charles Darwin
- The American beaver and his works by Lewis H. Morgan
- The anatomy and philosophy of expression by Charles Bell
- The beginnings of life : being some account of the nature, modes of origin and transformations of lower organisms. Vol. I. by Henry Charlton Bastian
- Botany for young people: Part 2, How plants behave by Asa Gray
- Cattle: Their breeds, management, and diseases by William Youatt
- Conjectures concerning the cause, and observations upon the phaenomena of earthquakes by John Michell
- The dovecote and the aviary by Edmund Saul Dixon
- Flowers and their unbidden guests by Anton Kerner von Marilaun
- Inquiries concerning the intellectual powers and the investigation of truth by John Abercrombie
- The Italian alp-bee by H.C. Hermann
- The physiology or mechanism of blushing by Thomas Henry Burgess
- Seasons with the Sea-Horses : or, sporting adventures in the northern seas by James Lamont
Taken from The Private Book Collections of 10 Famous Readers
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